arb skids?

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drbandkgb

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Looks like arb is getting into the Gen 2 market with skids..
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Link to E.P. I guess they figured the Gen 2 is old enough now and not going anywhere lol...

Look light and nice
 
civicjoe

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Too much to read on my phone at work, I like the idea of lighter though.
Price isn't too terrible for being able to lift all of them by one person. I hate wrestling my rad skid by myself

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drbandkgb

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I dont think 700 range is too bad.. Your looking at close to that for Shrock.. Plus it looks like these are made to crumple a little.. The lightness is the PLUS! and on MPGs too
 
civicjoe

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drbandkgb said:
I hear Hefty's wait times are getting to be like Shrockworks
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When I dealt with them, on my sliders i wanted the nxrocks style not heftys so it was a custom build, he said 2 months and im pretty sure it was done before that, also only had to pay half at the time of order which was awesome in my book.
I think most stuff is built to order.
I think the wait time is largely due to the fact the shop is run by 2 guys and their Dad, and i dont know how much work their dad does, when i showed up he showed up a bit later with a truck load of wood.
They are great folks, and the shop is far smaller than you can even imagine.

Macland said:
I wonder exactly how much weight difference there will be between all of these.
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Well seeings how that the box of skids from ARB are able to be carried by one person, and nxrocks/hefty skids the rad skid alone it is 50# and as is the engine skid i believe. Now I'm no body builder but 50# of steel with a slight bend in it is awkward as s*** when your laying on your back. So id say the total is probably 75 maybe a bit more or a bit less
 
Macland

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Yeah, the rad skid is awkward all by yourself, I figured that out the hard way. However, it was easy to put on once I met up with the guys in OKC and we used a jack to slowly lift it into place. To me, it would only be worth paying the price difference for the aluminum if the difference in weight actually made up for the loss in gas mileage from the heavier steel skids. Because I know, for me, my use of the skids is going to be limited for quite a while.
 
civicjoe

civicjoe

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Well I think that hefty and shrock ones are the weight of an extra dude in your rig, so instead of always carrying 2 people youre now carrying 3, and in your soon to be case mac you'll be carrying 4 and in my case its like carrying 5 dogs instead of 2 and my wife and myself, so i think will a full rig it would make a differnce. but if its just you, you probably wouldn't notice.
Hard to say unless someone did a study,
Perhaps I could get a grant for a study on this, for anyone who would like to sponsor this study feel free to pm me you, your self will end up with a set of slightly used hefty skids, as i will keep the arb ones. I will need $1200 plus the cost of shipping twice. I will foot the cost of gas, the cost of shipping twice will cover the hefty skids shipped to you. Each set of skids will be taken on a 400 mile highway trip, and we will gather then data for MPG of Hefty Skids vs. ARB Skids.
HAHA
In my dreams right, but hey its worth a try.
 
Macland

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Lmao that's awesome. I'm down for that deal too ;)

I understand what you're saying though. This is actually checkbale though. We can go all mythbusters on it.

We'd need to have the X in question. The weight of each set of full skids and bench weights to match those weights so we wouldn't need to purchase them. Then you could do an exact trip like 100 miles highway round trip with no weight for a base mpg. Then you do a trip with Hefty/Shrock weight equivalent. Then a trip with the aluminum equivalent. The information would all be there and all you would need to do would be to measure the cost savings of the gas mileage with the aluminum skids compared to the cost difference between them and the steel ones and the depleted gas mileage over the same period of time.

Myth Confirmed/Busted/Plausible

Shoot, I could do this experiment to an extent for myself. I'm driving all highway miles to Lawton once a month for baby appointments. I'd just have to avoid excessive city driving to keep constant results. The results would only be good for people with the added weight of an aftermarket bumper though.
 
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civicjoe

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true!
& if i did it it would only apply to those with a volant non powercord, sliders, gobi ladder, a dephep and roughly a 2 inch lift, and 265/75/16 terra grapplers. LOL Guess we'll need stock truck. haha
 
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