Thank you. When we studied the Gladiator we took that factor into our design. What we couldnāt have known at the time was the marginal strength factor in that spot. Weāll reinforce all of them as time goes on.
Ok, so Iām sifting through your lengthy, helpful comments trying to find out what your engineering qualifications are and Iām concluding you donāt have any. See, the problem here, the people that did the conversions for us do.
These builds were done four and five years ago, fairly early on in...
Thank you for your helpful input. Would you mind letting me know your engineering qualifications? I'd like to pass your comments and contact info on to our fabricator.
Around here itās the only game in town. We just need it fixed and back out on the trails making money.
A new frame would not only have the same weak spot to be beefed up (dealer would not modify it for strength), but an even bigger worry, every critical system would be r&rād. Iāll pass! š¤£
An update for anyone following this, I took it to the local Jeep dealers excellent body shop. They wanted to replace the frame. Ran it to a frame & alignment shop and they felt confident they could align, repair and reinforce the frame. So, the frame shop got the business and has the JT.
Cost...
Donāt think so we added3āof wheel travel, higher rated springs & shocks. BUT, if you bottom out the suspension often enough youāll bent the frame over the bump stop regardless.
Thanks so much for posting this, I'll post internally for the staff to see. We'll need to add some form of reinforcement, but step one the drivers have to drive within the suspensions capability. The five JTs we have are identical and were never intended to do high speeds on the trails.
FYI...
Correct, and if you constantly bottom the suspension what we have is inevitable. The susopension is the Mopar 2" WITH Fox shocks. I have a feeling the shocks are toast, I'll know more tomorrow.