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re: buyer's remorse and capabilities - my Gladiator is my tenth truck - prior = three Fords, three Rams, three Toyotas, of all vintages and sizes from compact to ridiculous- one of the Fords was a DRW 4x4 1 ton OBS diesel (non-turbo) beast with huge toolbox body, one of the Rams was a 2500 5.9...

I've lived in VT 32 years, most of them have involved living in or driving through some pretty wooly winter conditions on a fairly frequent basis - and I have plenty of practice at it and am successful at it (I lived for one winter on a literal top of a ridge, marginally maintained private road...

This is brilliant - any chance you took any additional photos of the steps along the way, that you could share? Thanks

Ordered a roll online of 3m "88 Super" 1.5 inch wide electric tape to put between the hardtop and the glass on mine, pending some kind of resolution. A very temporary and kind of "ghetto" fix but I only want it as a way of stopping water entry pending getting to the bottom of the issue, and...

I don't think they all do it, because, despite the length of this thread, it would be much longer if everyone on here were a part of this discussion, and if the problem were that universal, it'd be getting addressed on a higher/wider level. Suggest keeping an eye on yours and/or even have...

I'm in this leaky rear roof/window club, also. I actually noticed it about a year ago. Bought my truck in Aug '19. Noticed the leak around August '20. Not as extreme a leak as some people have had, so waited until the truck was already going in for other reasons. Asked dealer to look at it in...

I am "plotting" an old school install of a CD changer in my '20 Sport S. I found and bought a new-unused Alpine DHA-S690 6 disc DVD/CD changer, from a reputable ebay seller, that I am going to install vertically behind the driver's side rear seat, and I am going to run its coaxial digital output...

I had a 2015 Ram 1500 Ecodiesel and, although I liked the truck in many ways, I arrived at the same exact perspective as above. Before I got a GDE tune there was no way to even know when it was going into, or in the middle of a regen, except maybe, sometimes, if you started to smell unusual...

I'm someone who thinks that sleeper builds with outlandish capability are vastly more bad*** than something that is trying this hard to show off, but that's just me.

I'm really failing to grok why the Sport S MT with tow package loses 500 lbs of payload capacity compared to the Sport S MT without the tow package. Which is not to say that I am saying that it isn't true, it just makes very little sense to me. The hardware on the Sport S, to go from "MT Sport...

Any further details to connect the dots with what specific Aisin transmission "family"? Not doubting you, just interested in learning more

This is kind of a side-branch from your question but I have grown to really like "NoSpill" gas cans- not only do they really work well in fueling things (unlike the awful "CARB-mandate" shutoff spouts), they also don't leak, weep, or emit fumes nearly as much as _any_ other gas can I have tried...

Never specifically heard of the "seat towel" before but glad to learn of them. There are times I have to do some really grubby task and then climb into the truck before I can actually change clothes. Going to get some of these as something to have on hand. I used to order trucks with "knitted...

The most current clutch recall for the 2020 MTs (that does the slip detection & self-derating downscaling of engine torque in response to clutch slippage and heat) only became actually-available for the 2020 MT much more recently and considerably after the 2021s' version of this most recent...

I've come to think of this transmission as the equivalent of an "old school real-truck 4 speed" (1970s and earlier "work truck") - a really low 1st to get a substantial load moving from a dead stop, including a stop on an uphill slope, and then 2nd gear acting almost like a high 1st gear, and...

This is ludicrous. I have been on this board since anyone was even able to start taking deliveries of JTs and I have especially kept an eye out for and read anything I've spotted having to do with clutch and manual transmission, because that is what I wanted, what I bought, and what I drive. I...

I have an MT and I like it despite the clutch issues. I read elsewhere on here, during one of the other clutch discussions, that there are something like 6,000 - 7,000 MT Gladiators on the road, as of early 2021. No way would that support the engineering and tooling and having a transmission...

Somewhere else in our various lengthy clutch discussions on here, someone else had mentioned that it was a dual plate clutch and at the time I disputed it. That person then showed some more detailed pics and design details and it was pretty clear that the OEM clutch is indeed a dual plate...

Very interested in overall outcome, and also what else, specifically, you do to ramp up power output once you have these internals..

Almost exactly same timing and same overall experience here. If I can detect anything at all it seems a slight bit like the engine is less stall-prone at the clutch engagement zone when getting moving from a dead stop, but it is hard to tell if that is a specific recall-produced effect, because...