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

[Whiskerbiscuit]

I really don't like the media bay door. So I figured this helps my OCD a little.

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[Dougstdig]

Earned some bling…. Any idea how long they take to come in?

 

[Mojave40]

Nice. Whose LCA/shock mount skids are those?

They are the Rock Hard 4x4 bolt-on skids. The kit came with front and rear lowers plus the rear shock skids.

 

[WILDHOBO]

Earned some bling…. Any idea how long they take to come in?

Nice. One hundred years. I have 5 I’m waiting on. One of them since march 18th.

 

[WILDHOBO]

They are the Rock Hard 4x4 bolt-on skids. The kit came with front and rear lowers plus the rear shock skids.

I was looking at that kit. Are they rusting, or is it the photo?

 

[Animal]

Swapped the knee speaker pods and threw in some 6.75" Rockford Punch I had sitting around. No photos of the dash torn apart. Drivers side is as annoying as everyone says it is to swap.

 

[Dougstdig]

Oh and a word of caution!!!

I didn’t practice what I preach. While yes the trails is not difficult, I wheeled it alone and left the Forrest at about 2am. I just got tired of waiting on the front end TSB to be done…I had to get her a little dirty. Aside from poor trail maintenance, it was an okay trail. Maintenance in that for +/- 8 miles I heard limbs on both sides just screeching down my paint. Thank god for it’s white and I had it ceramic coated. Would have been much worse.

This being said…I’m a larger than average fella, but hate the tiniest of critters. In this case they weren’t so tiny. The freaking spiders spun webs stretching across the trail and I kit you not…looked like crabs hanging up side down. NOWAY would I have finished if I was topless or footless.

Additionally, don’t breakdown or get stuck with no one else there and think about walking out before dawn. If the spiders don’t give you a heart-attack the black bear may if not worse. There were miles of bear tracks over fresh tire tracks left from earlier in the day.

None of my previous jeeps had a 4 to 1 T-case. Pulled it in low, locked up and a 20psi idled over numerous log crossings. No jerking, bouncing or slipping…smooth.

 

[Redruby]

Oh and a word of caution!!!

I didn’t practice what I preach. While yes the trails is not difficult, I wheeled it alone and left the Forrest at about 2am. I just got tired of waiting on the front end TSB to be done…I had to get her a little dirty. Aside from poor trail maintenance, it was an okay trail. Maintenance in that for +/- 8 miles I heard limbs on both sides just screeching down my paint. Thank god for it’s white and I had it ceramic coated. Would have been much worse.

This being said…I’m a larger than average fella, but hate the tiniest of critters. In this case they weren’t so tiny. The freaking spiders spun webs stretching across the trail and I kit you not…looked like crabs hanging up side down. NOWAY would I have finished if I was topless or footless.

Additionally, don’t breakdown or get stuck with no one else there and think about walking out before dawn. If the spiders don’t give you a heart-attack the black bear may if not worse. There were miles of bear tracks over fresh tire tracks left from earlier in the day.

None of my previous jeeps had a 4 to 1 T-case. Pulled it in low, locked up and a 20psi idled over numerous log crossings. No jerking, bouncing or slipping…smooth.

What trail was this?

 

[Dougstdig]

What trail was this?

Ocala National Forest…in Florida.

 

[Rusty PW]

Oh and a word of caution!!!

I didn’t practice what I preach. While yes the trails is not difficult, I wheeled it alone and left the Forrest at about 2am. I just got tired of waiting on the front end TSB to be done…I had to get her a little dirty. Aside from poor trail maintenance, it was an okay trail. Maintenance in that for +/- 8 miles I heard limbs on both sides just screeching down my paint. Thank god for it’s white and I had it ceramic coated. Would have been much worse.

This being said…I’m a larger than average fella, but hate the tiniest of critters. In this case they weren’t so tiny. The freaking spiders spun webs stretching across the trail and I kit you not…looked like crabs hanging up side down. NOWAY would I have finished if I was topless or footless.

Additionally, don’t breakdown or get stuck with no one else there and think about walking out before dawn. If the spiders don’t give you a heart-attack the black bear may if not worse. There were miles of bear tracks over fresh tire tracks left from earlier in the day.

None of my previous jeeps had a 4 to 1 T-case. Pulled it in low, locked up and a 20psi idled over numerous log crossings. No jerking, bouncing or slipping…smooth.

When out in the woods. You become part of the food chain. You are on the menu.

 

[Lunentucker]

Doors and tops back on. Washed and wiped down. Swapped out for the black lug nuts.
I'd love to keep it naked for a while, but my dad is nearing 92 and in diminishing health. He lives about 40 miles away, and our Subaru isn't always here and ready to go should I get the call for help or worse. So it has to be ready to go, rain or shine.
Naked day was fun nonetheless.

 

[OldFloridaMan]

Earned some bling…. Any idea how long they take to come in?

Nice! I'm going to try to get up there next weekend.

 

[Dougstdig]

When out in the woods. You become part of the food chain. You are on the menu.

SOB better be hungry! Also I bite back…unless it’s a spider…. Those damn things give me the heebie-jeebies.

 

[Lunentucker]

SOB better be hungry! Also I bite back…unless it’s a spider…. Those damn things give me the heebie-jeebies.

Take a fat friend wheeling.

 

[badtux]

LED headlights. Just for comparison, the stock dim yellow halogen on the left, the bright white LED headlight on the right.

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