What did you do TO your Gladiator today? [ADMIN WARNING: NO POLITICS, NO GUN TALK]

[USMC_1Wire6337]

Installed my new winch.

Loving the cloaked bumper. Is that the Klingon or Romulan model? ?

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[TheGreenBackGorilla]

Rugged Ridge Stubby Front Bumper, Painted body match Sting Grey, LEDs, Striker Bar.

 

[DJ Geezer]

Installed Oracle Rear Bumper LED Reverse Lights

Did you also get the plug and play wiring adapter or just use the included taps?

 

[XraytecH]

Did you also get the plug and play wiring adapter or just use the included taps?

Plug-N-Play

 

[Mball488]

I have the tazer, but they say to u marry it before going to dealer, it would be nice to easily ask the dealer to enable it and change tire size

And some may just do it for you. Not all dealerships are pain in the ass's, but the Tazer is what I used because its so user friendly. The downside though is any time you go there its a good habit to just un marry and reconfigure for 20 minutes when you get it back. I took a picture of my Tazer tire size so I wont have to do the whole trial and error again.

 

[DJ Geezer]

I was bored today and had a set of these on hand. Got them a few weeks back off Amazon for $20, so if they last a while, cool, if not, well not a big deal.

How have they held up? I like the look.

 

[Lunentucker]

Moved the old lights so I could move the top hoist to actual center. Added an LED light on the front end so I could see better under the hood.

 

[TotallyReasonable]

Did a couple big things yesterday. Installed a new "ebay rubicon" bumper to replace my plastic one that someone dinged in a parking lot. With that bumper I installed a new winch, and wired up LED fog lights, completing my conversion from the stock tealights to LED.

I'm getting pretty happy with my wiring now, I now need to go back and redo my first runs on light cowl lights now that I know what to do. I harvested the factory plug from the original plastic bumper to use in my new one.

The old bumper some bozo hit. Good excuse to get an upgrade!

Old bumper removed and winch mounted

New bumper mounted. Bought a knock off dremel to cut through the fairlead plastic cover after attempting with a hobby knife. I would have made it through eventually, but the dremel was worth the 20 bucks, plus new tool.

The bumper itself feels like a steal for 530 delivered to my drive way. It had a couple scuffs on it, but nothing that noticeable, and the quality was better than I expected. Only downside was lack of instructions. The installation of the winch plate was confusing without the directions because of the additional brackets, but I eventually figured it out.

All LED now in front and back.

 

[rafael004]

I installed my 3.5 metalcloack lift kit and 35 tires ??????

 

[grandsrus]

Removed a few unnecessary bits n bobs. Didn’t have to remove the PDC (went thru inner fender liner) and somehow didn’t loose any settings having the batteries out for 2 hrs. Fired right up & no idiot lights. Someone went crazy with the tesa tape at the factory tho, lol.
2nd pic just shows the N1 to N3 jumper. 3rd is finished, can’t even tell all that crap got removed.

What diy did you follow please?

 

[Scrubb84]

There were a few good posts I found along with this diagram/drawing from Hootbro. Like he told me, there isn’t a step by step description out there yet, maybe I’ll write one up and post it somewhere in the forum.
Edit: just noticed it says added jumper between N1 & N2…..thats just a typo, it’s N1 to N3.

 

[SnazzGlad]

This guy

Got it all shined up in preparedness to get naked for the long weekend.

 

[USMC_1Wire6337]

Got my lift installed yesterday. 2" frankenlift but not too happy. I bought a 2" @Iron Rock Offroad spacer lift with the Bilstein shocks and @Clayton Off Road replacement front springs (per the Clayton website, the new springs have a stronger spring rate and give JK/JL 1.5" lift and JT .5" lift) . I also threw in the longer sway bar end links from the Mopar 2" lift. I talked with the installer beforehand that I wanted the spacer and springs in the front because I am going to put a winch and steel bumper and didn't want even more of a rake.

He didn't do the spacers in the front since he said the springs gave it a 1" lift. I was too flustered at the time and excited to have the lift finally installed to think about what that meant. Now I am sitting here stewing over the fact that not only did the rake get increased by another 1", but that is before I lose even more height from the winch/bumper. On top of that, I have to wait until Tuesday to talk with them. Thankfully all the reviews say they are stand up people so I am hoping they correct the issue, but I would rather it be done right the first time.

On the plus side, it rides great with the new shocks ?‍

 

[Pescatoral Pursuit]

Old bumper removed and winch mounted

I love my Zeak and it's performed flawlessly but when mounting it, I was looking at the 4 mounting bolts and how much meat on the cast frame they were going through and thinking to myself; "Can these really hold 13k lbs of force? Can each one really hold 3250lbs?"
I'm not convinced yet.

 

[redline61]

Wasn't planning on it, but got a killer deal on some brand new Rubi axles with stock Rubi suspension (2,000 miles). Still need to wire up the lockers, but after selling my stock axles it only cost me $1,600.

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