Reviews for Quadratec Aluminum Modular Fuel Tank Skid Plate for 07-18 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited JK
Perfect fit
No one else offers this part to replace the factory piece.
Excellent product
Good
The product seems fine but for that price it should fit without having to be altered. The rear bolt on the outside the tab will not fit into position without filing the back of the front edge off and pulling on it with a ratchet strap. Also a spacer was included for this bolt that wasn’t mentioned in the instructions. Hope this helps someone else!
This skid plate fit faily well and I was able to install it alone.
The only issue I had was in the area of rear most mount that fits kind of at s 45 degree angle. You will know what I mean if you look under your Jeep at the rear most bolt.
The only way I was able to get that last bolt to start was to insert a smaller bolt through the frame and skid plate to draw it up close enough to act like a clamp. Then remove the smaller bolt and install the original.
I installed all the others plates with no probles alone.
Quadratec needs to redo the right rear mount, or at least make the slot longer toward the bottom!
No matter, if you start with that one, or save it for the end, you are in for a fight! This skid plate sits very tight around the tank however, it is very robust!
If I were to ever do this job again... I would go with a different manufacture.... But if I were to install another Quadratec fuel tank skid, I would lengthen the right rear slot 3/16- 3/8 of an inch toward the bottom of the right rear angled mounting tab.... even then, it still will be a fight because the angle and width of the skid plate mounting tab does NOT MATCH the angle of the bend in the stock tank skid! To combat this, they provide a spacer that goes between the new skid plate and the stock one, but you have to fight the new plate close enough to use the stock bolt.... I used a floor jack to press it into place!
WORD OF CAUTION..... WORD OF CAUTION!!!!! Where you have to put that spacer, there is a groove in the stock skid plate that leads to an internal channel the stock plate uses for bracing. When you go to install the new skid plate the gap is big enough where that spacer can slide down between the new and old skid, and down into that channel!! If our does that, like it did me, you have to drop the factory skid plate to retrieve it!! Which means you have to drop the whole fuel tank!!!! What I did to prevent it from happening a second time, I stuffed the entrance of the channel with bits of paper towel.... For back up, once I got the new skid in place, before putting the spacer in, I took a bit of paper towel rolled it up to fit in the groove between the old and new skid also... Then installed spacer and the bolt.