I was riding over the weekend and hit a tree stump in a mud pit on a trail. I didn’t hit it too hard but got stuck and reversed and turned to kind of straddle it. I started driving away and heard a ticking noise. Drove slow out of the woods pulled over checked axles, cases etc.. nothing looked out of the ordinary. Limped it back to the truck pulled the skid and see there was a crack in the factory skid and the little black spacer that holds the 2 coolant lines apart was off and the coolant line was a hair pushed over into the driveshaft. Nothing busted and we ended up taking the black spacer and putting it back and zip tying the lines into place away from the shaft and the sound went away.

Is there anything I can do to help this (I’m ordering Factory UTV UHMW 1/2" Skids as we speak) but I’m curious about the zip tie holding up on the coolant lines and I’m afraid to bend those lines too much in fear of cracking one.