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

[ShadowsPapa]

Mounted the hi-lift.

Interesting as we always called those "handyman jacks" - and when used horizontally with the cam setup they were used for stretching barbed wire when running fences. That worked up some muscle.

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[mazeppa]

Took delivery of my Gator Rubicon today. 2" Mopar lift and BFG KO2 315/70/17C's.

Will a heat gun take the Rubicon stickers off without damage? (Provided I don't overdo it).

Do not use a heat gun, you can damage the paint before you know it!

Use a hair dryer, finger nail, and adhesive cleaner.

This is the method I used to de-badged My Rubicon, removing the "Rubicon" and "Gladiator" decals.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

The 3m product looks like what I used to remove stripes on cars before prepping for paint. Of course some heat guns have multiple settings - I have one that will melt plastic and burn paint on high - and one that doesn't put out that much heat - a much lower wattage gun. So I guess - your mileage may vary. there are those that won't harm anything and one like I have that could light things on fire.

 

[FL Handle Guy]

I used a heat gun on low today to remove the factory stickers. I kept the gun a foot away and moved it quickly on one sticker at a time. The sticker was warm but the hood was still cold to the touch. I then replaced it with my new bronze rubicon stickers. I'm not a fan of all the red on the new Jeeps. Next is to powder coat the hooks dark bronze

 

[Lynn_F]

Installed the rampage skid plate with the led light bar.

 

[ffward]

Swapped out the plastic bumper for the steel, installed my winch plate and winch, KC LED lights, and painted the trim pieces to make it a little different. Pretty pleased with how everything turned out if I say so myself.

 

[DirtyD]

I've been wanting to get this done also but everybody around here is charging $500+ for install and align. 250 is amazing

You can get the daystar spacers for about $65 from suspension connection and do it in your driveway in 90 minutes, no alignment needed...

 

[Donkey Fluffer]

Introduced the kids to the new wheels and picked up 2 Apex winches, once for me, one for the wife's JL Sahara.

And ordered a bunch of goodies from Quadratec and Amazon.

 

[Sean0170]

That looks bad ass, how difficult was the install of the demon eyes?

Its not a job you want to do yourself. Just watching the shop open up the headlight was traumatizing.. With as high a chance as there is a messing something up, and as expensive as a replacement LED headlight is, I recommend paying a lighting shop that carries insurance and a warranty.

 

[MalikBBoy]

Introduced the kids to the new wheels and picked up 2 Apex winches, once for me, one for the wife's JL Sahara.

And ordered a bunch of goodies from Quadratec and Amazon.

What kind of goodies did you end up getting, if you don’t mind sharing!

 

[Donkey Fluffer]

What kind of goodies did you end up getting, if you don’t mind sharing!

Well, let's see...building my JT and the wife's JL at the same time isn't cheap. I got her Sahara a Tyger rear bumper, the AEV 2" spacer lift with the programmer for tire size, the 12K Apex winch, the Rough Country MLC-6 (like an S-POD), the Quadratec 6" LED's for her front bumper, and some orange D-Rings to match the ones on her front Rampage bumper (her JL is Punkin colored).

For my JT Rubi, I ordered the Quadratec 6" LED's for my steel front bumper, the 4" Quadratec LED's with some RR "A" pillar mounts, a 12K Apex Winch, and a RR winch plate.

Also bought a couple 6 ton jackstands and a Daytona 3 ton floor jack to supplement my older 3 ton jack and jackstands.

It was a good day

 

[Whiplash2130]

Introduced the kids to the new wheels and picked up 2 Apex winches, once for me, one for the wife's JL Sahara.

And ordered a bunch of goodies from Quadratec and Amazon.

Interested in this winch as well. What bumper and winch plate are you using on your Gladiator? Let me know how you like it. Does it have a wireless remote control?

 

[WakesurfVT]

@jurfie - oh I definitely have torq bit sets, and fully intended on using them with my right-angle flex shaft drill bit but it was too tight to get up into these rear rail bolts...if you read through others who’ve installed the Mopar hard tonneau here on the forum, everyone complains about the same rear bolts! In hindsight, I should have screwed all the bolts into their holes to get them pre-threaded but it was still annoying.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Swapped out the plastic bumper for the steel, installed my winch plate and winch, KC LED lights, and painted the trim pieces to make it a little different. Pretty pleased with how everything turned out if I say so myself.

Kind of cool - different approach.
How do you like the deflector on the hood? I considered one......

 

[Donkey Fluffer]

Interested in this winch as well. What bumper and winch plate are you using on your Gladiator? Let me know how you like it. Does it have a wireless remote control?

I have the factory steel bumper. I ordered a Rugged Ridge winch plate off of Amazon for $229 so I could have it this week though I could have waited and paid $199 elsewhere. I'm off all of Thanksgiving week and don't want my fun time delayed.

The Apex remote is both wireless and wired. I unboxed it and think it is a very high quality unit.

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