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Date now pushed to 2-1-22. I probably will be at the point where I'm ready to trade for a different truck before I get this intake. Six months and counting....

The stock intake is loud. Sounds like Darth Vader. With the snorkel and seal removed it's quieter, somewhat. Didn't feel much difference in power, but I'd wager that on a dyno you'd see a few horsepower. AFE advertises 39 lb/ft gain with their intake kit alone.

Really bummed that updated exterior mirrors weren't on the list this year. Hopefully the mid-cycle refresh includes that so we can upgrade our existing ones to some decent style mirrors with more visibility.

Call me when Ford grows balls and makes advertising like Jeep does.

Yes I ran with the rubber seal and the snorkel piece fully removed from my airbox all summer. I saw improved intake air temps and there's no way it couldn't have been pulling in more air that way. But when the guys at GDE were tuning my truck that's the first thing they noticed and commented...

Wrangler and Gladiator are 110% identical under the hood. What works for JL works for JT. S&B told me that it's on the website, but it's still in testing phase. They expect it to officially go on sale after the New Year. Interesting that this one is designed to draw air in from down low in...

True. 10,000 miles and I'm nowhere close to EPA window sticker. Out of the hundreds of thousands of combined miles of real world owner data, looks like the average nationally is also well below window sticker.

Once I read the manual and learned that 5 MPH is the threshold, I learned how to manipulate it to make it go into an ESS cycle more often. Even in the McD's drivethrough I will allow just enough space to get to 5 MPH quickly and then stop. I can make the engine shut down a few times before I...

1) Impossible. Even in stock form the JLU 4xe gets 15 miles of EV range on a bad day, low 20s on a good day. Let's call it 17 average. The battery pack is a 17 kW battery. That's 1 mile per kW. How much is a kW of electricity? Well it ranges from $0.10 to $0.20 depending on state. The...

Yeah the Gen 2 had a TSB that said switch from Pennzoil 5W30 to Rotella T6 5W40 because they were eating bearings on the thin gasoline engine oil. There is no switch for Gen 3. Been MS-12991 5W40 oils from the start. Some still believe Rotella would actually be better. I do know the Motul...

Helping my aunt move.

The root problem is that now the geometry of your control arms has changed. The more parallel your control arms are to the roadway the better the truck will ride. When you start to introduce any angle at all into the control arms now you are transferring energy into the frame with every bump and...

The science and computer programming involved in trying to predict the condition of the atmosphere at 200 hours in the future is so complex it would twist your brain into a pretzel if I tried to explain it, so I'll spare you. Let's just say that modeling the atmosphere and understanding that...

When you guys say changing the stabilizer improves drivability, how exactly? What is it that changes? Granted, I've only ever run 35s on my Jeeps but they drive pretty darned good with stock stabilizers and I don't even think about it. I could probably remove it altogether and never notice...

Gosh, I figured there'd be more excitement about getting 15 miles of range on EV mode at $0.13/mile after you've been plugged into a wall all night long and then falling back on a tiny 4-banger turbo at $0.14/mile after that. Especially when you get to pay $8k more money up front and then you...

I was watching a YouTube video last night where a couple of guys in a brand new JLU Willys were trying to turn around on a road covered in about 6-8 inches of snow. They clearly had no clue what they were doing, and acted like they were scared to death. As soon as a tire started to spin they'd...

I like it!

Leather seats are easier to clean and they come with different foam to make them more comfortable. But they get hot in the sun and don't hold up to time as well. Cloth seats are hard to keep clean and have the standard foam, i.e. they're hard as a rock and flat as a sheet of plywood. But they...

I always keep mine in the barn. Nobody, myself included, keeps a Jeep long term. And when the time comes that you decide to trade if off you can throw the stock bumper back on and keep the nice one to reuse on the next Jeep, or sell for more profit than the stock one would bring. Don't ever...

Yep just keep in mind that as you add spacer thickness and lift the rear (or the front for that matter) farther and farther, the track bar will change angle in relation to the ground. And that in turn will make the handling of the vehicle feel increasingly poor. I remember doing a 2" RC lift...