What did you do WITH your Gladiator today?

[Bluefalcon]

Picked up foundation blocks on the way home... 1200 lbs.... handled it like a champ

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[KevinM60]

Visited a meeting of the German Jeep Forum last weekend.
Did also a little bit off roading without getting stuck.

What’s it look like under the hood?

 

[Ericxj99]

work like every day

 

[Janster]

Loaded up the JT with some goodies for July 4th…..

 

[Stuntman Mike]

What’s it look like under the hood?

Terrible, I assume it will take at least one week to clean it up.

 

[KevinM60]

Terrible, I assume it will take at least one week to clean it up.

Yeah.
I remember my first mud bath.
I was surprised how much mud got in the engine compartment from underneath
Yours has a lot more coverage than mine did.
But it was sure a lot of fun blasting that puddle.

 

[RudeJeepin]

Pulled the moto camper out into the Gifford Pinchot NF, since I have a 5 day weekend.

We've had a few visitors.

This one was pretty curious.

 

[Dawgfan89]

Took it on a trail ride/cleanup on the Big Frog Loop in the Cohutta Wilderness in GA with 8 other Jeeps

 

[Dainbramaged]

Hit Windrock TN offroad park for the first time last week and had a blast. Earned some badges (though we skipped 16 based on some current conditions feedback we received) and found sime cool challenges, including 26, 51, 82, 42, 43 (and the trail off 43 down to the road had some of the best obstacles). That said, their trail rating system is incredible inconsistent, several trails marked "blue" were just green connector roads with no obstacles whatsoever (calling you out trail 2). A couple others were a bit sketchy getting through with no damage, like 83 (heavily rutted on the downhill side put us 29 deg off camber while trying not to slide into a tree) or impassable for a Gladiators (g33). Nevertheless, hope to get back sometime as the park is huge and there was still more to explore.

 

[mclousing]

The Problem
need to move 5000 lb tractor with 800 lb brush hog 280 miles.

Tools
1 Jeep Gladiator Mojave with 6000 lb towing capacity now known as Daisy
1 Volkswagen with 5000 lb towing capacity no known as Wags
1 3500 lb trailer with load capacity of 11,000 lbs
1 1800 lb trailer with 4500 load capacity.


So This is how I worked through the problem.

hooks the 3500 lb trailer to Daiy
hooks the 1800 lb trailer to Wags


1. Put the Brush hog on Wags
2. Take the 1000Lb bucket off of the tractor and put in on wags Leaving the 500 lb arms on tractor
3. Take every piece of weight out of Daisy including the spare tire and putting them in Wags.
4. Put the now 4000 lb tractor on Daisy

I tried to center the tractor weight over the dual axels attempting to keep the tongue weight low.
so we are now Towing 3300 lbs with Wags
and towing 7500 lbs with daisy (just a wee bit over weight)

and off we go, 6 hrs later we get the load to vacant land.

unload reassemble everything and then drive 3.5 hrs back with empty noisy trailers.

What I did discover, was when I kept the speed under 60 (which was my target) I had no problems towing, I could feel the weight while breaking so I increased breaking distance dramatically (like 4 times longer) None of my temperatures spiked all held steady. Transmission sat in 6 at about 3K rpm the entire trip, although the steep climbs pushed the rpm's higher than I wanted so I took it easy on those.

I think this will be a one time deal but my confidence in the abilities of the jeep did increase.

Oh and as the pictures indicate it wasn't picture perfect drivign conditions, several cars were in the ditch on our way out.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

The Problem
need to move 5000 lb tractor with 800 lb brush hog 280 miles.

Tools
1 Jeep Gladiator Mojave with 6000 lb towing capacity now known as Daisy
1 Volkswagen with 5000 lb towing capacity no known as Wags
1 3500 lb trailer with load capacity of 11,000 lbs
1 1800 lb trailer with 4500 load capacity.


So This is how I worked through the problem.

hooks the 3500 lb trailer to Daiy
hooks the 1800 lb trailer to Wags


1. Put the Brush hog on Wags
2. Take the 1000Lb bucket off of the tractor and put in on wags Leaving the 500 lb arms on tractor
3. Take every piece of weight out of Daisy including the spare tire and putting them in Wags.
4. Put the now 4000 lb tractor on Daisy

I tried to center the tractor weight over the dual axels attempting to keep the tongue weight low.
so we are now Towing 3300 lbs with Wags
and towing 7500 lbs with daisy (just a wee bit over weight)

and off we go, 6 hrs later we get the load to vacant land.

unload reassemble everything and then drive 3.5 hrs back with empty noisy trailers.

What I did discover, was when I kept the speed under 60 (which was my target) I had no problems towing, I could feel the weight while breaking so I increased breaking distance dramatically (like 4 times longer) None of my temperatures spiked all held steady. Transmission sat in 6 at about 3K rpm the entire trip, although the steep climbs pushed the rpm's higher than I wanted so I took it easy on those.

I think this will be a one time deal but my confidence in the abilities of the jeep did increase.

Oh and as the pictures indicate it wasn't picture perfect drivign conditions, several cars were in the ditch on our way out.

Are those trailers really that heavy? My 18' PJ was only 2200 pounds - steel frame, wood deck.

3,000 RPM is nothing. Heck, mine holds that here getting onto some of our highways - it's a slight grade and I'm facing our almost constant NW wind. I may drive for over a mile - empty, over 3,000 RPM. When I tow my car hauler with a combined trailer and car weight of about 5,000 pounds in our grades here I run 3300-4300 RPM fairly frequently. Oil samples show things are just fine and the transmission never runs hot.

You knew the key and kudos for that - slow and sure, keep safe distances, know your limits and your vehicle's limits. You want to get there under your own will, not be hauled there in the back of a long black vehicle.

 

[WILDHOBO]

The Problem
need to move 5000 lb tractor with 800 lb brush hog 280 miles.

Tools
1 Jeep Gladiator Mojave with 6000 lb towing capacity now known as Daisy
1 Volkswagen with 5000 lb towing capacity no known as Wags
1 3500 lb trailer with load capacity of 11,000 lbs
1 1800 lb trailer with 4500 load capacity.


So This is how I worked through the problem.

hooks the 3500 lb trailer to Daiy
hooks the 1800 lb trailer to Wags


1. Put the Brush hog on Wags
2. Take the 1000Lb bucket off of the tractor and put in on wags Leaving the 500 lb arms on tractor
3. Take every piece of weight out of Daisy including the spare tire and putting them in Wags.
4. Put the now 4000 lb tractor on Daisy

I tried to center the tractor weight over the dual axels attempting to keep the tongue weight low.
so we are now Towing 3300 lbs with Wags
and towing 7500 lbs with daisy (just a wee bit over weight)

and off we go, 6 hrs later we get the load to vacant land.

unload reassemble everything and then drive 3.5 hrs back with empty noisy trailers.

What I did discover, was when I kept the speed under 60 (which was my target) I had no problems towing, I could feel the weight while breaking so I increased breaking distance dramatically (like 4 times longer) None of my temperatures spiked all held steady. Transmission sat in 6 at about 3K rpm the entire trip, although the steep climbs pushed the rpm's higher than I wanted so I took it easy on those.

I think this will be a one time deal but my confidence in the abilities of the jeep did increase.

Oh and as the pictures indicate it wasn't picture perfect drivign conditions, several cars were in the ditch on our way out.

When I tow our small camping trailer, I just drive for the most part, not pushing it up steep grades though. But when I tow the cargo trailer, I manually shift at 4k rpms. My personal rule with that trailer is watch and keep the tranny under 215 degrees. Never had a problem.

 

[mclousing]

Are those trailers really that heavy? My 18' PJ was only 2200 pounds - steel frame, wood deck.

3,000 RPM is nothing. Heck, mine holds that here getting onto some of our highways - it's a slight grade and I'm facing our almost constant NW wind. I may drive for over a mile - empty, over 3,000 RPM. When I tow my car hauler with a combined trailer and car weight of about 5,000 pounds in our grades here I run 3300-4300 RPM fairly frequently. Oil samples show things are just fine and the transmission never runs hot.

You knew the key and kudos for that - slow and sure, keep safe distances, know your limits and your vehicle's limits. You want to get there under your own will, not be hauled there in the back of a long black vehicle.

these are rental trailers so I was going with the weight that they were providing. As for RPM,s I was shocked at that but pleasantly surprised. Luckily 90% of the drive was relatively flat and a low wind day.

 

[Splenda]

Hauled 100 bags of mulch to my house so I can start sprucing up my shrub beds tomorrow. (Then I mowed my grass.)

 

[WILDHOBO]

Hauled 100 bags of mulch to my house so I can start sprucing up my shrub beds tomorrow. (Then I mowed my grass.)

Looks great. I however moved to CO. Part of the bargain with my wife was that as soon as we no longer live in FL, my lawn mowing days are over. I’ll move snow, but f that grass.

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