Clearance and armor
Real angles from a tape measure, and the bumpers, sliders and skids that change them.
The steps
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Your truck
What’s on the truck today?
Pick or confirm the truck and the plan to work in. What’s on it now is the baseline the plan is measured from.
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Measure the truck
What are its real angles?
Five tape measurements give approach, breakover, departure and clearance as the truck sits, bumpers and all.
Answered byClearance
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Bumpers and sliders
Which armor helps most?
The end that hits first, more than 5° below the other, is where a bumper or tuck gains the most.
Answered byClearance
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Review
Review and keep
What changed against Actual, cost and weight where known, and the open checks.
Each step opens its calculator with your truck filled in: Clearance. With JavaScript on, this page keeps your place, your answers and this system’s parts from your build sheet in My garage.
Use at your own risk. These calculators are here to help you plan and to inform your decisions, not to sign off on a build. Many numbers are estimates worked out from factory figures, and some factory figures are not yet confirmed. Check every number against your own truck, its manuals and a qualified shop before you buy parts, cut, weld, lift, regear or drive on it. Long Range Desert Tools is not liable for anything you do based on these calculators or their results. The full terms are in our policies.