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

[Jeepmonster]

S&B air vents to go with CAI

Looks great. Almost like it came from the factory. Can you feel the difference, or is it too early?

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[CWGrisw0ld]

Looks great. Almost like it came from the factory. Can you feel the difference, or is it too early?

Only made it to the mailbox and back so far. I doubt it will do much, HP wise, but I do like how it looks. For anyone looking to add these, I would highly recommend buying 1” or 1.25” M4 screws to help fixate the passenger side vent during install. The wing nuts they send are too big and don’t work.

 

[TJDave]

Took off Teraflex 1.5" level kit and installed RC 2.5" level kit. Kept Daystar 3/4" rear spacer. Reason? After adding a winch and bumper the front end dropped almost an inch.

 

[Buzzlb]

RR HD Rear Bumper.

See The Overcon for more pics & details on the install and tag lights. Love it, Recommended.

 

[Sespe]

Installed some LED headlights, from this thread:
gladiator LED install

So far, so great! Routed the DRL wire to my existing power box, soon to be upgraded.

 

[DHP]

RR HD Rear Bumper.

Looks good! How do you like it? Got any more pics? Thinking about this one myself. Did you get any lights for the tag?

 

[ShadowsPapa]

This is concerning. Did you treat it, and how?

Brushed it with a fine stainless wire brush, treated it with Extend rust converter, then painted over it. I've done minor rust on multiple cars that way and they are all fine - one was done over a decade ago, the others about 8 years ago, no rust since.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

That is pretty common on both the JL and JT. Something about the welds either from the material itself or them not cleaned properly that makes the E-Coating of the frame not stick to those spots well and they chip pretty easily around those areas.

Getting it address by warranty is spotty and I think you are better off just spraying some rust converter and touching up with some like black epoxy paint.

I keep rust converters on hand, both brush-on and spray. And I used a black epoxy paint on my SX4 door locks to match the Jeep door handles I installed last year so have some of that left.
Pretty used to treating rust so that was my first thought - clean, convert, paint over it.
No way I'd bother with warranty on that - their cure might be worse.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Wired up the winch today - made brackets to hold the supplied cut-off switch, used existing bolt locations and bolts, no holes drilled, nothing really changed. If I change things around, I simply pull the bolts to take the brackets out and put the bolts back. I like mods like that that don't impact the ability to put things back.

 

[Buzzlb]

Looks good! How do you like it? Got any more pics? Thinking about this one myself. Did you get any lights for the tag?

See The Overcon for more pics.
Used eBay motorcycle bolt LED tag lights.

 

[capercrew02]

Finally got around to ordering and installing the swing box for my recovery gear.

 

[Jeeperjamie]

Added a DV8 rear high clearance bumper to mine. Pretty pleased with the look and ease of the install.

 

[EstoJTR]

Finally got my Baja Designs LP6 Driver Combo lights wired up, as well as Diode Dynamics clear side markers installed. The LP6's are awesome, the pics don't do their lighting abilities much justice. The amber light is great, easy on the eyes.

JT headlights only

JT headlights OFF, LP6 low beams

Headlights OFF, LP6 High Beam spot

 

[FLUndertaker]

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