Budget Nissan Skid Plates

During our last hoorah in the deep snow and my quick overnight after returning home I realized that I had recently started belly scraping on certain trails and areas on our way to our campsites, There was also some obvious scrapping while we tackled the Marble Mountain Trail this past year. Skid plates are one of those things that probably should have been purchased first. However, when building a #Overlandtruck on a budget you often have to seek out certain deals and opportunities as they come, and sometimes they come when you're broke, and others come when you're not. Skids were always something I know I needed, I always took great care when running trails and roads alike, however, my rig is also my daily driver, therefore protection isn't just a mod for its own sake, its also a peace of mind modification, knowing the main parts of my drive train a covered and protected from those pesky trail demons that sneak out from behind those corners when you're not paying attention well enough. Cracking a pan or case and spilling fluid and metal everywhere is just not something that should happen, so I found a set of Aluminum skid plates for the #NissanFrontier in Edmonton Alberta being sold by a guy running a pretty decent side hustle, the drawings he used are found in the link below and are also well known as they are an original creation from a member of the Xterra nation forum who made them and placed them on there for people, Rock on dude. Long story short there was no shortage of modifications that needed to be done, holes not where they should be and at the time I was unaware that they were open-source drawings so I had to source them out to find out which changes needed to be made, this is how it went. in Typical #blindmanoverland style, I'm also sharing the drawings here for all my Nismo friends.
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Truck / Camping Gear
My Truck: 2013 Nissan Frontier SV 4x4
My Fridge: raventruck.com... (35L out of stock)
Box Rack: Blindman Overland Tac Rac Gen 2 www.blindmanov...
Front Bumper: Coastal Offroad High Clearance www.coastaloff...
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Power Management: S Pod Source www.morris4x4c....
MUSIC:
Good world Gone Bad - Wildside remix
Trouble Deep - River Sam

[@mitchkman]

That‘s awesome work!!! We need more open source stuff for trucks.

[@BlindmanOverland]

Yes we do!!!

[@Aspecto5]

Score! Thanks man! And hello from Edmonton! ✌️✌️

[@BlindmanOverland]

hey hey, neighbor!!

[@cbtech]

did you have issues with the bottom of knuckle of the M205 rubbing against the plate since there was no bend at the radiator support beam?

[@BlindmanOverland]

The only clearance issues I had was the tranny skid plate rubbing near the yoke of the output shaft, which I rectified by flipping the plate and adding a couple other bolt holes

[@GregPiercey]

Heck ya man, keep the truck vids coming!

[@BlindmanOverland]

gonna try lol

[@mikemorgan4670]

Yeah about that. Mounting skid plates on our Frontier's is not as easy as it should be. Gotta be done.

[@BlindmanOverland]

You got that right!

[@jeffleblanc9968]

Lovin the frontier I have a pro4x. The skid plates are sweet

[@2fkndwn865]

How thick of a plate and how did u bend it

[@BlindmanOverland]

they actually came bent to shape already, they were done on a pretty standard brake though. 3/8"