These skid plates are completely bolt-on and protect the mounting points of the lower control arms on the Dana 30 front axle. Why does this matter? Simply because these are the first parts to hit the rocks and they are pretty easily damaged.

Other companies offer beefier mounting tabs that you can weld in place once the originals are damaged, but why let them get damaged in the first place? Replacing these tabs with beefier ones takes a lot longer than preventing the damage.

There are also weld-on skid plates that can be welded to the mounting tabs, but if you can't weld you'll have to pay someone to do it for you. Even if you can weld, the small plates that are being offered don't offer the protection these bolt-on units do.

These Skid Row Control Arm skid plates can be installed in about an hour with simple hand tools which means you get to spend more time on the trail! As you can see in the photo to the right the rear of the skid plate is attached using the bolt that attaches the lower control arm to the axle. The skid plate is slotted to allow the use of cam bolts for front end alignment as well. The high clearance models also have an access hole so you can get to the grease fittings some aftermarket control arms have.

These skid plates are built to take a beating! They are made from 1/4" steel plate and use custom-bent, grade 5 u-bolts and grade 5 nuts to mount them to the axle. Just trim off the extra bolt threads when you're done. They fit tight against the sway bar mounting tab on one side and up against the axle housing on the other side. They can be used on vehicles with an axle disconnect or on those without. The units shown above are designed to fit with stock or aftermarket control arms. Because of this the gap between the skid plate and the control arm appears to be rather large with the Tera Mfg. control arms on this TJ.

For applications with aftermarket control arms our new high clearance model is designed to give you maximum ground clearance along with the maximum protection you expect from Skid Row. Take a look to the left at a prototype installed on our Pound Pup XJ to see how little clearance is lost when the D30-LCS skid plates are installed on a Jeep with the original control arms. The photo to the right is the new high clearance model (D30-LCS-HC) installed on a TJ with Tera Mfg control arms. Notice how they fit tight to the mounting tabs so that no clearance is lost.

Check out Jjournal's install article. We did the install right in the Spanish Trail Arena at Moab during this year's Easter Jeep Safari! (These were installed on the All J Products TJ).

A set of these skid plates is $120 plus Shipping which is a lot cheaper than repairing damaged control arm mounting tabs! All J Products has been running these skids since Moab EJS 2000, and we can say that they are AWESOME!

A set includes one skid plate for the left side and another for the right as well as all mounting hardware and easy to follow instructions.