Step 1 Clean the surface of your oil pan. You may want to test fit the skid plate and see exactly where the contact points are. You'll notice that the pan's side flanges are slightly bent inward, so they squeeze the pan for extra hold.

Step 3 Apply the RTV to the skid plate.

Step 5 Carefully, press the skid plate into place, making sure it's lined up correctly front to rear. (Nice action photo, eh?)

Step 7 Press the skid plate into place firmly and hold for a few seconds.

Step 2 Apply the RTV liberally to the oil pan and to the skid plate. Though we probably didn't need to goop it up quite this much, we really wanted the plate to stay on for good.

Step 4 Now apply even more RTV to the sides of the plate and on the bottom. Hold your nose with your other hand. RTV stinks in a big way!

Step 6 Once your plate is in place, make sure all the contact points were siliconed well. You still have a moment to pull it down and retouch your RTV.

Step 8 Sit back and admire your skid plate. In 10 minutes you can go drive it. We played very hard in Moab and though we never crashed down on our plate, we're sure glad we had it there anyway.