Took the skid plate off this morning and bought a big ass mallet to try to pound out the dents.
Bent this front drop bracket back into the bushing....that sucker bent back almost 3/4 of an inch.
It's amazing what this heavy beast can bend when slammed into rock ledges several feet high. It's almost completely unavoidable too, when wheeling alone with no spotter through massive boulder fields.
I ended up winching my Jeeper friend off a boulder (on Strike Ravine) that was at least 600 pounds, that had worked it's way up until it was laying on his front drive shaft only a few inches from his oil and tranny pans. We put some big rocks behind his front tires and I winched him backwards up onto them until the boulder fell free of his rig. Made me appreciate the undercarriage protection on my rig.....damn thing had disaster written all over it.
Good times......
