Recent content by professorkx

ARB Twin in the Gladiator mounted under the passenger seat on a DIY mount. I built a rear seat delete so I ran an air chuck to each side of the jeep under the platform. My motorhome has 41 inch MPT80 tires, so needed a big compressor to handle air downs. This picture is on my 47 Jeep. It’s...

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should….

I used this on my JK for several years and it worked as designed. I also did the drag link flip at the same time. I'm waiting until I bend my stock one on the JT before I plunk down the cash for the aluminum version, as I don’t plan to wheel the JT as hard as the JK…famous last words…

Agree, some have cooling issues while others avoid the cooling nightmare. Not sure anyone has figured out the reason. For me, a diesel would have nice since my adventure motorhome is a 6.7 Ford diesel and we travel 5-6 months each year. I just didn’t want to roll the dice and have to deal with...

For reading pleasure. https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/forum/threads/diesel-cooling-options-and-ideas.46298/ this issue kept both my son and I from buying the Diesel Gladiator…and now they are out of Production…

If only one option…Rock lights on the trail…my headlights would be good enough to see what’s coming…I need to see better when I’m crawling a difficult obstacle. I even have rock lights on my adventure motorhome… with that said, I have lots of lights on both my jeep and my adventure...

I was thinking the same thing since I have a car trailer that doesn’t get used much, but we are too far apart…

OK, this gives me an idea to recreate a swaybar I built years ago using a torsion bar I found at a Pick and Pull wrecking yard. I cut the arms out of 1/4 plate and banded it with 1/4 flat bar. This was on a CJ5 I converted to linked suspension with a 10 inch suspension stretch, and was before...

We have stayed at a number of the larger hotels in Moab over the last decade and have not had a bad experience. Now we are snow birds, we just stay in our motorhome and boondock out in the desert for several weeks..

I have MT AT 37” tires and AEV dual Sport lift and I have 9 1/4”.

Mickey Thompson Baja Boss 37” tires are approved for rims 8”-10”, so will work just fine on stock wheels. I run these tires on stock Rubicon wheels with and AEV dual sport lift that uses stock control arms without a problem. To keep from rubbing, I added two washers behind the steering stops...

If diesel jeeps were so great I suspect they would still be produced. As I’ve said, I would LOVE a diesel jeep, but not all the cooling headaches. I’ve dealt with those issues before on motor swaps, and they are exhausting to try to find the answer to keeping things cool…

A simple google search for 3.6 overheating issues yields some results for the JK, but compare that to searching for Jeep diesel Overheating issues and my computer crashed…might have overheated out of sympathy for those who own the Diesel version…🤣

Moab is where IFS goes to die…

I have a Mototote bike carrier that held my KTM 690 on winter trips of 3,000+ miles on the back of my JK, and has to add a couple of strip lights on the back of the carrier for folks to see my lights. Just plugs into the 4 prong trailer plug. With the Gladiator, the Mototote is unlikely to see...