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[TdmayfieldIV]

If you're going through that trouble instead of bolting in the crossmember that came from karl, you should make sure it has a flat bottom and make a flat bottom skid plate a part of it or that bolts to it.

I can't make a flat belly without cutting the **** out of my floor. I'm making I'd just rather start from scratch, making that one work would probably be just as much work.

Mine hung down below the frame. That crossmember wouldnt have worked

Yeah but the idea is the same, all in one is what i was getting at.

I had to go back and look at mine. We just did a tubular crossmember for the trans, the factory 205 mount, and a TMR customs rear yoke support off the skid. I never had any issues with that setup. But only wheeled it for 1.5 years, albeit rather harshly.

I did not use the holes in the bottom of the ORU adapter.

Yeah the ORD kit has aluminum holes, I'll use them but they're not gonna be the source of most of the support.

all I can say is make sure you have some sort of secondary support off of the 205 to make sure that you take some of the torque load, once I did that I stopped snapping trans/tcase cross members, something like the mount going to the rear bearing cover in your picture above

I'll be using the factory foot mount, not sure if i'm gonna use the bearing plate cover also.

Like I said, you can mind f' the cross member to death. At the end of the day the picture below shows what Off Road Design has on their website and apparently it works. I am still amazed that ORD, who probably has sold more doublers than anyone, could only find this picture to post on their site....

Modifying the factory crossmember would be more work than making myown.

why not just use the one that came with it and add the front hoop for the trans mount?

Cause I want a shiny new one made for bronca, Making that one fit would be just as much work.

Mine is all 3 crossmembers in one with link mounts tied in as well, seems to work great so far minus the fact that it is a royal pain to install or remove and weighs a **** ton.

Yeah it'll be heavy, but easier to balance on a transmission jack.