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Good Golly Miss Molle I was tired is saggy nets. All of these are JCR. They’re steel rather than aluminum like American Adventure Labs so they’re not light. However, I find AAL’s sheet metal to be pretty sharp, and their shipping costs are insane (more than the product). I also like that the...

Not answering your question, but I’m running KM3s and the snorkel pre-filter which are both really loud. With the hardtop, Hotheads headliners & Sound Assassin floor liners and now an ArmorLite floor liner. I’ve been really impressed at how decent the noise levels are even with singing mud...

Yeah, they’re not in a great spot, but neither are the stock brackets. After Potts mountain I considered welding on some $40 skid control arm plates but never got around to it. Maybe in the spring. I came down hard on mine. There’s quite a bit of lip protecting the control arm joint itself (the...

Probably just heading to the mall. SMH

I took my AEV brackets up Potts Mt. in Va. (there’s a Mall at the top of the mountain). It’s supposedly the hardest trail in the state with lots of rock gardens. It’s not Gladiator friendly. It breaks heavily modified rigs. I ran it alone. I scraped up a few things under the truck on 37s. Yes...

All things being equal a pickup will not perform as well in snow as an suv/wrangler because of the light bed. I’ve been up in the mountains and the hunters with the dog boxes always have an easier time. With some overlanding stuff, camper shell, etc., the Gladiator does a lot better.

Hothead Sound Assassins floor liner (think thinner dynamat). Really helps with noise Hothead Headliners - also helps with noise and they look nice. Skip the WeatherTech floor liners. I had them and loved them, but a full ArmorLite floor liner is awesome. They fit over top of the Sound...

Can’t wait to see the videos of bootlickers, edge lords and fan bois destroying their new Panelgapatron 5000 on the trails but I’m not looking forward to the inevitable damaged battery and resulting forever fire that ruins the trail/forest for the rest of us.

When you go under there, you can rattle them against the bracket. I had my spare off so I was going around checking exhaust hangers, the spare shield, skid plates, etc. This bracket and the disk break dust shields were the only thing rattling. The tailgate, latch also seemed good. Still the...

Reducing to $700 OBO

I’ve had a rattle noise that occurs usually when going over speed bumps. It’s a weird sound. It almost sounds like the suspension. It’s not. It’s Jeep’s stupid engineering. The e-brake lines go through a hanger under the center of the truck. The hard e-brake lines rattle against this hanger and...

The Gladiator has so far been good, which says a lot about how much beefier it is, but track bars were a nightmare on TJs. Given the nature of solid axle suspension the track bar not only in critical but it’s under intense pressure. It’s like the key stone keeping the whole axle under the truck...

My uncle is a shop foreman for a Chevy dealership. He’s been a mechanic since the 1970s. He frequently is the guy they escalate to when no one can figure stuff out. He told me a story of a corvette ZR1 coming in with a rattle (I don’t remember the year). It got passed around the shop to...

I’m liking your logic. But following along with it, I still think the boots should be Gore-Tex but the stitching on the seams of the inner Gore-Tex booty should be shoddy, so they leak anyway. That would be a perfect homage to Jeeps.

Have you checked your insurance policy? It’s easy to forget, like how Visa cards sometimes provide warranty services, but you may have mechanical breakdown insurance. Depending on the carrier (if you have State Farm, then you don’t actually have insurance at all), you may have this issue covered...

This is a problem labor force wide, economy-wide. Trades education was forsaken decades ago. Everyone was told they needed to go into massive debt to go to college and get a degree. And we stopped repairing things, and making things. Even for the college bound, this is a disaster. We’ve now got...

It was a joke. I thought the 5-10 years part gave that away.