Topic: crossmember for rotated cases

[toy4x4ota]

about to order my new crossmember and was wondering if the Marlin/Trail-Gear one will work with the rotated dual transfercase adapter?
thanks 
D.Willing

[skid]

yes and no.

The crawl box mount will line up but the rear case wont.  A little fab and it should work.

[toy4x4ota [OP]]

would it be more worth it to just get the fror crossmember that is already designed for the rotated adapeter

[Hottrod81]

Just make your own.  It's not that hard.  Also, go to BigMike's build up thread.

[cheap sunglasses]

FROR has the crossmember part for the clocked case but no skidplate is available. It kinda surprises me no one has produced one yet, sure it might "not be that hard" to make one, but it can't be any easier than making one for a non-clocked case and theres lots of those skidplates on the market.

[skid]

FROR has the crossmember part for the clocked case but no skidplate is available. It kinda surprises me no one has produced one yet, sure it might "not be that hard" to make one, but it can't be any easier than making one for a non-clocked case and theres lots of those skidplates on the market.

FROR does offer a skidplate.   It's just in two pieces and needs to be welded together.

[MiniSimp]

Use the FROR center section and build your own skid plate

[toy4x4ota [OP]]

MiniSimp- do you have any more pics of the skid plate that you could post?
Thanks Dallas

[MiniSimp]

[Hottrod81]

FROR has the crossmember part for the clocked case but no skidplate is available. It kinda surprises me no one has produced one yet, sure it might "not be that hard" to make one, but it can't be any easier than making one for a non-clocked case and theres lots of those skidplates on the market.

Probably nobody has made a skid plate because not too many people are running a clocked T/C and the average wheeler doesn't need one.  The amount it costs to come up with a template and put a skid plate into production probably doesn't make financial sense.

[MiniSimp]

I would be really easy to do in cad if you had the central rotation point of the cases.

[toy4x4ota [OP]]

thats perfect thanks. one more question, how thick is that metal that you used?

Dallas

[MiniSimp]

thats perfect thanks. one more question, how thick is that metal that you used?

Dallas

0.250

[snowplow]

Well now you guys got me thinking about making a skidplate/crossmember for my new (soon) marlin. But which one offers the most clearence and basically is the best offered. Also I had to do a high pinion front  because it was too high so clocking the x case would make my driveshaft angle worse right?

[MiniSimp]

Yes, but it is worth it.

[cheap sunglasses]

FROR does offer a skidplate.   It's just in two pieces and needs to be welded together.

Oh yeah, never noticed that before. It's not in the picture.. I wonder why.