nick1716 Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 well i finally made a decent oil pan guard rahter than using the construction sign...i just need to get some bolts and put it on now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowOSU Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 There is nothing wrong with road sign skid plates... But that does look great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosspbig Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 Post up some pics when you get that thing mounted!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardwaretoad Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 (edited) There is nothing wrong with road sign skid plates... As long as they're ones that've been "retired" ~allready taken down because of condition, etc. Back when I was younger I worked in Signing & Striping for a County Highway Dept. and people could come in & request them and pay next to nothing for a whole pile of them. Nice stuff... I had a couple of Baja bugs that I built that had aluminum firewalls, door panels, skid plates, etc. ~ a perk of working there. One thing I have to say ~ NEVER TAKE DOWN STREET SIGNS OUT ON THE ROAD !!!! ~ people's lives depend on them. It's the epitome of stupidity to go out & steal signs off the side of the road... you could kill someone. BTW, good lookin' skid there, nick1716... I'll get off my soapbox now... Edited February 4, 2005 by hardwaretoad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowOSU Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 No worries there, mine was "obtained" from a pile of them at a construction site and its just a big NO PARKING (P with the cirlce and the cross through it) I aint all about stealing them from the road, plus this was back in my wild high school days, im past that now. haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardwaretoad Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 I remember seeing a pic of it in another post, could tell it was a construction sign by virtue of the orange color. Think I made a comment in there, too... I wasn't insinuating that you'd stolen that one... just a comment from my work experience ~ the fact that in my 7+ years working there we had 12 deaths in the county directly related to a$sholes stealing stop signs, etc. Matter of fact, I think it is a "high school thing"... I'm guilty of going out & checking the choke pattern on my 12 guage on any available sign I could find back in my day, too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowOSU Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 Thats pretty bad, the fact that 12 people had to die because someone wanted a sign.... As for "that other post" that was what inspired me to go home over winter break and dig up those signs in my garage that had been there forever, they do make a sturdy skidplate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick1716 Posted February 4, 2005 Author Share Posted February 4, 2005 thanks for the comments... ill mount it tomorrow and put pic up yea i never stole my sign, my buddys dad does construction stuff and he had one on the side of his house...so i stole it from him but he laughed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick1716 Posted February 5, 2005 Author Share Posted February 5, 2005 mounted on my car! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runnerman Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 Interesting you mounted that skidplate on those holes, one of my first models were on those mounting holes but one of them bent up and then there was some rubbing, hense the reason for the bracket bar. Let us know how they hold-up for you. Just another ? what gauge are those signs made out of? Does look good though. :cool2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick1716 Posted February 5, 2005 Author Share Posted February 5, 2005 the construction signs im not sure what guage they are.. but the sheet metal i am using is just 3/16 galvenized alum. seems pretty strong... my front skid plate is the same and it has sure taken a beating and is still holdin up strong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96pfinderSE Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 Did you do the bendin yourself? Looks good by the way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick1716 Posted February 5, 2005 Author Share Posted February 5, 2005 yea i did all the bending and cutting myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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