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Best of both worlds: Sunrider. Get a hardtop and replace the Freedom Panels with a Sunrider, you can have instant open top and be ready for sudden weather changes.

I know the feeling. Kinda like when I loose my glasses, look for them and then find them when I walk down the hall and see myself in the mirror. Glasses found.

That is an amazing job. I like the way that you made it possible to remove the ends for off road use, and yet retain them for daily driving protection.

They are similar, just using an electric pump instead of a belt driven pump. If you look at the passenger side of the timing cover you will see a small idler pulley. This takes the place of the belt driven pump. It probably would be possible to retrofit a conventional belt driven pump if someone...

During dealer prep on Gladiators and Wranglers, one of the requirements is to turn the steering wheel lock to lock 25 times (I usually do 30, just in case I miscount one or two cycles.) This is probably to finish bleeding the air from the power steering, and I always do it with the engine...

Having driven both, it seems to me that the shock damping is the most noticeable difference. The Mojave has the remote reservoir shocks and there seems to be less "float" when going over bumps or potholes. The Rubicon seems to soak up a bump and react to it a little more, producing a sort of...

The leak may be from the timing cover. If the oil film is heavier towards the front, look at the passenger side of the timing cover near where the serpentine belt idler pulley is mounted. In my experience with Pentastar engines (over 12 years), it is not uncommon for the RTV sealant on the...

So far, no mods, but this is a useful thread. On a past vehicle, the only mod I regretted was the first one. I am being much more thoughtful about what to mod on my Gladiator.

Mine was probably best described as "mummified". Since the customer decided he didn't want Mickey back in his fan, and didn't mind paying, I gave it a decent burial in a trash can.

Exactly the same thing happened to me. A customer wanted to have the vibration and noise fixed in his Grand Cherokee. I pulled the fan motor and found a mouse, which I placed in a bag. The customer decided that he was unwilling to pay for "rodent removal", but he changed his mind when I pointed...

When I do a new vehicle prep, one of the steps at the finish of the prep is to inflate the tires to the maximum pressure listed on the sidewalls. This is based on the reasonable assumption that the vehicle may sit for some longer period of time. Many years ago, a friend had a '68 Plymouth Road...

Your understanding is correct. There are currently two different Pentastar engines being produced, the original Pentastar, and the Pentastar upgrade with VVL. When the Charger, Challenger and 300 end production, there will be no vehicle platforms left that use the original Pentastar engines, so...

Seems like only you and me, and MAYBE one or two other people don't fear these 3.6 Pentastar upgrade engines. I was working in the dealership when both the original Pentastar and the Pentastar upgrade engines came out, and currently have both a Charger and a Gladiator with the 3.6. I have seen...

Oil for the intake camshaft and intake rockers comes from the exhaust rockers. Two very small orifices in the exhaust rocker spray oil toward the intake camshaft and the exhaust camshaft. The oil supply to the orifices comes through the exhaust lash adjuster. I have found a restriction on some...

What is meant by inspection in the case of Gladiators that have electric locks is basically to close the recall (show that the vehicle has had the recall completed) on that particular vehicle. There are two different labor options on the recall, one for replacement of the control (locking...

Essentially the same, there might be a few minor differences.

I have wondered about the long term durability of the accumulator, since I used to perform Recall 685 back in the '90s, and a major point of failure in the Bendix 10 ABS (this system combined anti-lock braking and hydraulic boost for the brakes by using the ABS pump) was the accumulator...

The automatic transmission in the Gladiator is pressurized by an accumulator that builds pressure and holds it during an ESS stop. This pressure allows almost instantaneous transmission engagement when pulling away from the stop.

I look at life this way: Every day that I wake up is a good day. I also remember what a friend used to say about life: " Plan for the future like you're going to live forever, but live like you're going to die tomorrow ".