Where you at in AK?? and is that bolt on or weld on?
I am located near Fairbanks. Here is a little info about the skid plate: I bought it about 9 years ago from Downey. The Skid plate is no longer in production. Con-Ferr has gotten away form the yota market I think. Anyway, this plate is designed to clamp to the existing tcase xmember. It is very stout, flat bottomed and made from 1/4" steel. It's powder coated black and has semi circle cutouts for drive shaft clearance and an access hole for the tcase drain plug. totally replaces the factory sheetmetal thingy that usually ends up taking the shape of the bottom of the tcase the first time you drag it over something. I ran it up until about 3 years ago. I quit using it when I put in a xmember from FROR.