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I'll sum up for everyone, you're welcome. Rubicon Most capable stock rig with disconnecting sway bar and front & rear locker Mohave Most overrated rig so you you can tell your buddy you have an upgraded trim but it actually accomplishes nothing and costs more Overland Best bang for your buck...

Coming from a sxs and getting a truck as the replacement to use purposefully for offroading and camping, I test drove each trim other than the Mohave and tbh I was not overly impressed with any of the shocks, I thought they all lacked rebound specifically, but also compression. Rebound and...

So to summarize, lockers are good for off-roading and make you more capable than non-lockers. But also non lockers can drive in dirt too.

I agree, if you need lockers you’re probably past what the average person is willing to tackle. And if you’re in that scenario with a stock Rubi, you’re probably getting stuck anyway

2” lift with disconnecting sway bars and tires and you’ll go as far/further than a stock rubicon. Bring your stock rubicon to a muddy trail that swallows up 40” builds and a locked rubicon will get stuck early in the trail with the other Gladiators. Do lockers make you more capable? Yes. Is a...

No doubt, people with lockers and 40" tires get stuck all the time, a stock Rubicon with lockers probably isn't going much further than any other Gladiator in most scenarios... I agree, the enthusiasts that are actually tapping into that extra capability are probably few and far between...

If you get an Overland and put $3k into it, you'll still have saved $7k and be more capable than a stock Rubicon or Mojave :LOL:

I'm curious to see if the performance drop is that aggressive with age, I've seen this mentioned a few times. If that's the case I will have to ditch them with our icy Canadian winters. I get people can just like a different tread design after a while, but I found in the ATV world, there were a...

That was my exact reason for going with them. I think they'd be a little better off-road than a lot of other less aggressive AT's like KO2's, but still not a pig on-road like a mud tire. They also got better snow reviews than most AT's

31 PSI seems to be working for me. That’s what they chalk tested at too. Dealer had them at about 38psi and I bounced around the road like I had steel tires.

I'm running them. So far so good. I'm actually surprised how quiet they are on road. Offroad, they rip into the dirt like tracks, tried to break them free a few times just messing around and they had too much traction, they just grab and sling you, so I quit doing that... I've crawled up 2-3'...

I try to avoid getting stuck at all costs going out with the family. There’s been a couple times where I’ve turned around because of mud holes. I’m still in the process of setting my truck up, but with a winch, I would have cautiously proceeded in a few different scenarios. I’ve been in...

Good info, you can tell a lot of people on here just think it’s a cosmetic upgrade like a spoiler, “just re-gear and voila.” My bet is over half of these people doing it because they saw it on fb will be bailing on their trucks within a couple years. There’s a reason the hardcore guys trailer...

I would not waste thousands re-gearing just for 37’s. If you’re going to make it into a one dimensional, mpg killer, offroad rig, go all out… go 40+ and do it once, and do a lot more than just that. Otherwise keep it setup as an all around vehicle that’s extremely capabale off-road with 33-35’s

Yeah strut is plenty strong, issue is the rail strut mounted to the bed with the single horizontal bolts holding it in. Once you get the leverage and height up above the bed, just using your hand you can rock the bed rail back and forth. Like Kevin mentions, If you riveted or welded to the bed...

Those look awesome, you can see the pride in your work. How sturdy are those rails? I was thinking of mounting my recovery boards with the same idea, only instead of vertical boards it would be vertical strut, and the recovery boards would rest flush on the bed ledge to take some of the load...

Thanks for all the responses so far. I'm surprised that just going to 35's seems to send your MPG below 20 on average. It's making me think mine is displaying high, but everything checks out, tire size in settings, speedo is accurate. I'll have to do some manual testing and see how it looks...

How do you move a dresser or king size mattress with a roof top tent? I’m sure not taking a rtt & rack off every time I need to use my truck as a truck. They look cool but if I could justify a rtt, I would have just gotten a JL. Gladiator is a unique vehicle, seems like a lot of JL people got...

Reserved, I'll start 33" Duratracs on 18" wheels 22MPG 2" lift, stock 3.73 gearing Intermediate riding, try to avoid Difficult stuff when we can, sometimes you can't. We go off-roading generally to camp and explore, going down trails that stock vehicles can't so we get a bit more privacy and...

We have lots of threads with opinions on tire sizes, but I'd be curious to see a thread orientated more around real world usage and application of various tire sizes. No right or wrong answers, just interesting to see the data. I'm thinking... Tire Size, info MPG Other Notable upgrades(Lift...