HUMMVEE front wheel skirts (armored)...

[Xist]

Actually, I saw many grill blocks in Afghanistan--cloth. I guess that when you have more dust than oxygen in the air, you need a filter.

[The donkey CRX]

Needs more Cowbell!!

[Fat Charlie]

No, they'll hear you coming!

[gumby79]

1/4" plate on standoffs would be lighter more airo than 4 30- 50lbs sand bags also would breeath better
as for filter any one who has commuted throw bug country knows how plugged up a radiator can get with small particulate bug bodies (over there sand)

[gumby79]

Then agen they are sandbags sooo not going to stop the sand packen jmo

[Frank Lee]

Skirts and spats all in one swell foop!

[elhigh]

I wonder if kevlar skirts would get the job done in similar fashion without adding so much weight. I remember hearing about lots of breakdowns from field armoring overloading the suspensions.

[Xist]

Much of the armor on trucks is aluminum, too, so there are plenty of better options than steel.

[freebeard]

'field expedient'

[Fat Charlie]

Hilbilly armor made the suspensions cry, but it was the powertrains that really suffered.

That much added weight (in the OP) to protect... tires? Really- adding armor made people think of those puny little trucks as tanks. The old Toyota pickup with a machine gun mounted on a post in the back is a much better weapons platform in that environment because you can't armor a vehicle enough to matter and still call it a vehicle.