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Great post, I’ll back up everything you said. I’m on the Olympic Peninsula and chains are required to be carried up the mountain in winter. Regular old school chains fit my Rubicon fine, no rubbing or interference. I bought them while towing a trailer from MD to WA in winter in case we hit...

Yeah, sure, you can throw enough money at any problem and get a superior solution, but let’s talk real world. To get an IFS to outperform SFA adds substantial cost and complexity. One of the merits of SFA is a simple, rugged and economical design. Maintenance is another, clearances and...

A niche product can still be a money maker especially when you are the only option in that niche. Too little volume for direct competition, so they lock that market. The gladiator can be regarded as one of many off road oriented pickups that are in vogue. Or, it can be viewed as one of one in...

gladiator can be too wide in the PNW

Oh yeah, great tip! I feel better doing another check after a drive or two to make sure after it’s all worked around a bit and gotten warm. I take some photos of the gear faces in the process for documentation. Next change I can compare and see how it’s going.

Perspective: I’m on gravel and dirt roads almost every day, while your mileage may vary, the result is scratches/dings/scrapes are bound to happen. You can fight it with paint, or adopt the wash and wax twice a year approach. Wash more often than that, I mean a good deep clean. It’s in a manner...

The local maritime supply houses sell a salt removal spray. I can’t attest to performance or benefit. You could try a mild diluted degreaser. Road grime is a weird matrix of oils, dirt and moisture.

I think there is more risk for user error with RTV. So long as no drippy drippy and you didn't crack a nut it's all good. The gasket is ideal for more frequent changes. , just keep clean. Pressure wash the case before draining and then use brake cleaner on the mating surfaces to remove oil.

I printed a copy of the tech manual from somewhere to note the sequence and torque values. Honestly it’s a stone simple job, aren’t solid axles grand? Crack the fill port, crack your cover nuts to drain, remove cover, clean it all up, replace cover, fill to spec. You need a torque wrench and...

It’s interesting to note the different treatment between the JT & JL with regard to the power train. The discrimination gives me the impression that jeep views the V6-8sp pairing as the utility option. The V8 is cool but I’d like to keep this thing for a few decades which means replacing the...

I had a few scuffs on the frame from the factory. I hit them with lanolin a week after I bought it and I've never seen rust develop. Paint is a sacrificial coating, it fails. The important thing is to keep the metal protected from atmosphere by some means. If the paint fails you could...

Man, I opened this thread expecting to see the usual hand wringing over what amounts to nothing but in your case this is bad! I bought out 22' in September 2022 and it lived a mile from the Atlantic for the first month. Then we drove it cross country in snow (& NaCl) where it's spent the past...

Before moving to the Olympic Peninsula we lived in MD and would go to WV a couple times of year. One winter we were going to Canaan Valley and I had a rack and a sled on top of my Forester and that thing was wheezing on the hills trying to hold 60mph. It was a manual and the only way to hold...

K02's are heavy and have been prone to imbalance in my experience. 37" K02's are going to amplify any looseness or instability.

Just to be sure, you don't think the trailer brake was dragging, do you? We use a uhaul trailer a handful of times per year and generally it's a good experience, but I've twice gotten them with mechanical issues.

It's likely you have taken a bigger efficiency hit from your truck being a manual. The AT has a wider ratio spread that better compensates for the increased tire diameter and weight. The MT hits a 1:1 ratio in 4th compared to 6th gear in the AT. Having two extra gears before going into the...

Maybe it’s still breaking in? The zF 8 speeds have a initial learning and adaptation phase. I wouldn’t be surprised if it also programmed to avoid high load scenarios for the first x,000 miles. I’m speaking from current experience at 33k. Id love to read a document describing the logic and...

Fan + Higher amp alternator to back it up. The higher amp alternator is a nice feature if you want to use the trailer plug to draw current from the trailer outlet to charge off or on board house batteries. The 7 pin connector contains a lead powered whenever the engine is running and another...

Have you driven a solid front axle much? The JT rides especially truck like, such as the jostle that comes with hitting an unbalanced road defect. Driving technique can help with wandering a bit. When you hit a bump or whatever and the impulse is to to manage the yaw with steering input, try...