ARB Twin in the Gladiator mounted under the passenger seat on a DIY mount. I built a rear seat delete so I ran an air chuck to each side of the jeep under the platform. My motorhome has 41 inch MPT80 tires, so needed a big compressor to handle air downs.
This picture is on my 47 Jeep. It’s...
I used this on my JK for several years and it worked as designed. I also did the drag link flip at the same time.
I'm waiting until I bend my stock one on the JT before I plunk down the cash for the aluminum version, as I don’t plan to wheel the JT as hard as the JK…famous last words…
Agree, some have cooling issues while others avoid the cooling nightmare. Not sure anyone has figured out the reason. For me, a diesel would have nice since my adventure motorhome is a 6.7 Ford diesel and we travel 5-6 months each year. I just didn’t want to roll the dice and have to deal with...
For reading pleasure.
https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/forum/threads/diesel-cooling-options-and-ideas.46298/
this issue kept both my son and I from buying the Diesel Gladiator…and now they are out of
Production…
If only one option…Rock lights on the trail…my headlights would be good enough to see what’s coming…I need to see better when I’m crawling a difficult obstacle. I even have rock lights on my adventure motorhome…
with that said, I have lots of lights on both my jeep and my adventure...
OK, this gives me an idea to recreate a swaybar I built years ago using a torsion bar I found at a Pick and Pull wrecking yard. I cut the arms out of 1/4 plate and banded it with 1/4 flat bar. This was on a CJ5 I converted to linked suspension with a 10 inch suspension stretch, and was before...
We have stayed at a number of the larger hotels in Moab over the last decade and have not had a bad experience. Now we are snow birds, we just stay in our motorhome and boondock out in the desert for several weeks..
Mickey Thompson Baja Boss 37” tires are approved for rims 8”-10”, so will work just fine on stock wheels. I run these tires on stock Rubicon wheels with and AEV dual sport lift that uses stock control arms without a problem. To keep from rubbing, I added two washers behind the steering stops...
If diesel jeeps were so great I suspect they would still be produced. As I’ve said, I would LOVE a diesel jeep, but not all the cooling headaches. I’ve dealt with those issues before on motor swaps, and they are exhausting to try to find the answer to keeping things cool…
A simple google search for 3.6 overheating issues yields some results for the JK, but compare that to searching for Jeep diesel Overheating issues and my computer crashed…might have overheated out of sympathy for those who own the
Diesel version…🤣
I have a Mototote bike carrier that held my KTM 690 on winter trips of 3,000+ miles on the back of my JK, and has to add a couple of strip lights on the back of the carrier for folks to see my lights. Just plugs into the 4 prong trailer plug.
With the Gladiator, the Mototote is unlikely to see...
Best shocks I’ve ever had on a Jeep were King bypass shocks, but at almost $3,000, when they started leaking after 5-6 years, I swapped to the 5100 and been running them since (kings can be rebuilt, but cost prohibitive). 5100s are no where near as good as the kings at high speed desert...
Generally, I see 7th as the normal gear with 8th gear on more flat terrain. In the mountains, I don’t see 8th on the uphills, only the downhills.
with that said, why is that an issue? Should I swap gears to then be running in 8th normally and get no benefit on downhills or driving flat...
This is so much horse hockey its laughable. I ran 37” tires on my 2014 JK with 4.10 gears until I bought my Gladiator in January, and never felt I needed a gear change. I run the same 37” MT AT tires on my Gladiator and don’t see a reason for gear change.
I’ve posted elsewhere that I swap...