P500 Something on skid plate in between front wheels.

[Deleted member 3748]

I bought my P5 with 100 miles on it and never thought much of the piece of steel mounted to the bottom of the frame. I just put 26X10 tires on the front and they rub at full turn. I got underneath and started looking at the frame and I'm certain the previous owner added the pieces you see in this pic. It definitely doesn't look like anything installed from the factory. Maybe an under side plow mount? What does yours look like under there?

 

[JACKAL]

I bought my P5 with 100 miles on it and never thought much of the piece of steel mounted to the bottom of the frame. I just put 26X10 tires on the front and they rub at full turn. I got underneath and started looking at the frame and I'm certain the previous owner added the pieces you see in this pic. It definitely doesn't look like anything installed from the factory. Maybe an under side plow mount? What does yours look like under there?

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That is not OEM as sold. I would agree it is a universal plow mount bracket.

Here is my P500 underbelly right off the showroom floor with 26x9x12 tires.

 

[Deleted member 3748]

Thanks @JACKAL ! That crap is gone tomorrow.

 

[JACKAL]

Thanks @JACKAL ! That crap is gone tomorrow.

You are welcome, I highly recommend full skids when you can swing it, will protect floorboards much better. Here is the SSS brand full set, compare to above.

 

[Deleted member 3748]

You are welcome, I highly recommend full skids when you can swing it, will protect floorboards much better. Here is the SSS brand full set, compare to above.
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I'll get around to those one of these days. I bet the pieces of steel I have down there have saved some damage!

 

[lee]

Piston, didn't you post a vidio of getting hung up on a log?
And here all this time I thought it was a driver problem!

Ok, I searched it, you whent around the mound in the trail.
Now you can go back and attack it.
And your sand drag time will improve with the weight reduction.

 

[Deleted member 3748]

Piston, didn't you post a vidio of getting hung up on a log?
And here all this time I thought it was a driver problem!

Ok, I searched it, you whent around the mound in the trail.
Now you can go back and attack it.
And your sand drag time will improve with the weight reduction.

LOL Good memory @lee . I was also thinking about all of the times I got hung up in the snow. This year I'll have a smooth plastic sled down there. I bet I can glide through snowy fields like a gazelle now!

 

[JACKAL]

LOL I was also thinking about all of the times I got hung up in the snow. This year I'll have a smooth plastic sled down there. I bet I can glide through snowy fields like a gazelle now!

Not sure about gazelle status, billy goat perhaps. LOL

 

[Deleted member 3748]

Not sure about gazelle status, billy goat perhaps. LOL

LOL A man can dream.

 

[lee]

LOL Good memory @lee . I was also thinking about all of the times I got hung up in the snow. This year I'll have a smooth plastic sled down there. I bet I can glide through snowy fields like a gazelle now!

I used to have a 1st generation Honda Insight.
It had a full plastic belly pan to improve the airflow under the car.
It would glide over small snow drifts in the road - suddenly the tire noise would go quiet.

One day on the way home from work I got too ambitious.
Car stopped mid drift.
The tires where just a few inches off the pavement.
Sat in the middle of the road waiting for a tow truck.
No other cars where dumb enough to be out there.

 

[JACKAL]

I used to have a 1st generation Honda Insight.
It had a full plastic belly pan to improve the airflow under the car.
It would glide over small snow drifts in the road - suddenly the tire noise would go quiet.

One day on the way home from work I got too ambitious.
Car stopped mid drift.
The tires where just a few inches off the pavement.
Sat in the middle of the road waiting for a tow truck.
No other cars where dumb enough to be out there.

LMAO. Wheeeeeeee.......... uh.. uh.. Crap!

 

[jphunter55]

You are welcome, I highly recommend full skids when you can swing it, will protect floorboards much better. Here is the SSS brand full set, compare to above.
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Hey Jackal,
On your SSS skidplate you have slots under the engine, mine does not have those slots. Did you cut them yourself or did it come like that?
Jim

 

[JACKAL]

Hey Jackal,
On your SSS skidplate you have slots under the engine, mine does not have those slots. Did you cut them yourself or did it come like that?
Jim

That is exactly how they come, with the slots. That was in August 2015 when I bought them.

 

[Deleted member 3748]

This is what came off... I'm 15 lbs. lighter now! I'm still thinking it's some kind of underside plow mount. Anybody need one?

 

[906UP]

This is what came off... I'm 15 lbs. lighter now! I'm still thinking it's some kind of underside plow mount. Anybody need one?

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Wow.....looks like more than 15lbs

 

[Deleted member 3748]

Wow.....looks like more than 15lbs

It's not as big as it probably looks in that pic... maybe 2 feet long.

 

[luckymike]

Definitely going to get a little more clearance on the belly

 

[906UP]

It's not as big as it probably looks in that pic... maybe 2 feet long.

Is there a name on It? Must be some sort of universal kit.... Swisher maybe?

 

[Deleted member 3748]

Is there a name on It? Must be some sort of universal kit.... Swisher maybe?

It says nothing.

 

[ghost]

Guy only had it for 100 miles so I guess that wutchamacallit didn't work out to well. Good riddance.