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

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Installed Baja Design LP4 lights. The brackets were mounted upside down hanging in the bull bar. This mount is uncommon to see, but this way the lights are pushed forward exactly in the spot I wanted allowing the peripheral light of LP4 spread better without any interference of the bumper. Would be easier mount the lights over the bull bar, but other main advantage to mount this way is the projection of the lights seated in a better spot fulfilling and working together with the headlights and fog lights. What do you think?

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Looks great. I have the mopar bar that is lower and the LP4s on order. Do you have any regrets functionally or looks wise not going with bigger Lp6s?
 

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Got both of our Jeeps naked today, the Wrangler hardtop was much harder to deal with than the Gladiator.
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Awesome garage!

Its totally a piddling thing, but they make covers for the door strike plates. On your JL, as its all black, they stand out a bit more so they would make a clean look.


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You had me curious. I went out and checked my wheels and I found where some weights had been removed, and less weight put on. In fact a couple of the wheels don't really have that much weight compares to the marks where the stick-on weights were. So apparently these balanced better than the Bridgestone Dueler tires even those these are about .7" wider.
I noted something else very interesting - Notice the "ledge" or edge there? The wheel is recessed into the tire's sidewall. You'd have to scrape a curb pretty hard to touch the wheel. I checked and no other tire I have sets the wheel back behind a solid ledge like that. So the sidewall sits proud of the wheel lip. I do not know how common this is. Other Jeep folks may come in and say "most of them do" and that's fine, then I've learned something, but the Falken Wildpeak A/T does not, the Bridgestone Dueler does not, the tires on my wife's don't recess the wheel back in like that.

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Just add it to the list of why I like these tires lol
 

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I'm a sucker for white letter tires....just love em.
My SX4 is about due for tires - more due to age than anything else - I'm thinking RWL tires for it next time.......... then my wife's WK2 would be the only vehicle without them.
Sadly, I sold my 70 (bottom pic below) - man I miss that car!

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ordered a set of the Redline Hood struts

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Not OP, but they are fantastic. One of the first things I did. But I have a hatred of the damn rod. I also have since removed the prop rod from the hood to clean it all up along with additional lights.

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