Valhalla’s Shield theft deterrent/skid plates info and ordering post

How much do they weigh?
I have a harbor freight furniture dolly around here somewhere.... waiting for v3 now.

 

bottom of the first post lists weights.

 

Thanx Steven, I have the stuff, I'll replace it all.

 

I have 1/8 steel, FedEx weight on the box with the front plate and hardware was 49 pounds.
It arrived today.
I told the 5' 100# wife it would be on the porch when she got home.
Asked her to bring it in unless it was too heavy.
She said she rolled it on the edge into the garage from the front porch..

I'm going to buy a furniture dolly Saturday at Lowes.
I'm sure we can use it around the house.
It sure would have made putting the TRD skid plate on easier.
I only dropped it on my face twice...

 

Some were asking for pics of @Valhalla76 / Tyler's security bolts inserted into Rock Hard's bolt protectors.
Here you go, keep in mind Tyler had no intention of matching up his parts with these protectors...



This would be my long TRD skid plate bolt.



With the washer..
Seems to be a tad of slack in the hole and the bolt head, but the socket will center the bolt.
If your OCD needs the washer centered, then maybe find a different washer or don't use one.
I think it will be just fine..




Without the washer..



Hope that helps..

I can't wait to get my truck back and get this installed.
Looking forward to my rear plate in a couple of weeks and the V3 when he gets them done..

 

Thanks for the great info!

 

I second the Thanks. I am still waiting on my new skid plate and shields. I picked up the bolt protectors already in anticipation of getting my shields. (Waiting 8 weeks now) I was worried the pentagon socket would not fit into the hole to tighten things up. Great detailed pics showing the socket fits just fine. Now the debate is washer or no washer. Seems the bolt protectors are functioning like washers already so no need for the washer.

~TBS

 

That is my thoughts on the washer as well. Since the goal is to minimize any protrusion of the bolt head, I plan to go no washer when I order/install

 

Just ordered these! Thanks for the 411

 

I’m ready to order a set of 1/8” steel shields in black powder coat with the pentagon bolts for my 2011 Crewmax (not TRD). What lead time am I looking at right now?

 

4-6 weeks. I will have the next batch of 1/8 steel I’m about 2 weeks, about a week for powder coat, but shipping then is the real delay

 

Exact same order on Feb 28th and patiently waiting, if that helps.

 

You’re in San Antonio, right?

 

I have a lot of 1/8 steel plates, just gotta pack em up. I plan on packing up more plates tomorrow until my garage is busting at the seems. I am going to hurt the fed ex guy when he has to pick all these up

 

Near Houston

 

I’m in Austin metro area (outside of Elgin). I don’t mind coming to get them if you’ll knock off shipping. If that speeds things up on getting them.

 

Yep, message me and we can set that up

 

My truck OCD thanks you greatly!

 

Hit up Corkscrew BBQ while you’re there.

 

Great news! I ordered on Feb 8 so I should be getting close.

 

Yeah your 2 days ahead of me so hopefully we'll be getting an email with a delivery date.

 

Ah, a side mission! Accepted!

 

I just got my order put in. Looking forward to it.

My work has me in the city quite a bit during the week, and I end up in a lot of parking garages. I’ve been extremely concerned about my cats getting stolen. I’ll have some peace of mind once my shields are ready.

 

At lease 2 of these thieves won't be stealing anymore CC
This happened today in North Houston.

 

I love a story with a happy ending!

 

I did basically the same thing with a rolling creeper by myself.
Did it in my driveway, had a good laugh when a couple neighbors walked by and heard me grunting as I tightened the z-bracket hangers. They were looking in my general area with a weird look, I was entirely under the truck so they couldn’t see me. I slid out to get a better angle and saw their look, said hi, we laughed, I got back to tightening down the beastly plates.

 

I bought a plate from Tyler a long time ago and simply never got around to installing it after I painted it. I recently did a full trans flush, so now I got it installed along with my P&P front skid.

The lack of clearance was a huge issue due to the super wide coverage of the P&P engineering skid plate, and I didn't realize until now Tyler has figured out a nut plate solution, so my DIY solution was to use huge eye bolts, and I used a pry bar to hold them in place while I tightened with an impact. I don't love low they hang, but I still might trim the bolts down a bit.

I also had the secondary cats removed already by a friend, so now I'm all set!

 

I picked my 3/16" aluminum plates up on Friday! Installed today w/ pentagon bolts and rock hard auto bolt protectors.

Expect that some of the RHA bolt protectors will fit the pentagon socket, but some will not. I suppose it just depends where the bolt protectors counterbore diameter falls within the wide manufacturing tolerances that RH auto are using.

Thank you Tyler for the great product!

 

Wow! That is a really old plate! Pre July I think

 

Yeah I'm a lazy asshole lol. Really I just knew I wanted to do my trans fluid flush, and get the secondary cats removed first. It just took too long of a time to do that, so this got put on the back burner.

Do you have a current hard to reach bolt solution for the front bolts? I like my MacGyver solution, but it's not ideal how low the bolts hang.