True story. During the JK-Experience Wild Wild West, there was a guy who had a full skid system installed on his Jeep. Somewhere along the line, his transfer case shift linkage bushing broke at the lever on the transfer case - a common problem and as luck would have it, common enough that I had a spare. Unfortunately, the only way to fix the bushing was to lower the friken massive skid plate system only it was about 100 degrees out at 11pm and that the Jeep had been driving hard all day so everything was stupid hot. Of course, several of the bolts had gotten damage from hitting rocks and we couldn't remove them. It took us until about 2am to finally get enough bolts removed to bend the stupid skid system pried down enough to make the fix and even then, everything was still crazy hot.
This is just one of many reasons why I have and still run factory skids. Of course, everyone knows that I'm just a mall crawler.