Now I would never knowingly go drive on roads that are officially closed... but a friend of mine, who happens to have a very similar Gladiator to mine, ran a bunch of those closed roads over Thanksgiving. North Pass into Saline Valley (marked as open, totally fine), up Lippincott Mine Rd (a...
Falcon has diesel-specific front part number - though it’s mainly because their 90° reservoir on the standard would hit the aux battery on the diesel. So they replace it with a shorter one. No idea if they change the valving for the diesel - I suspect not, since they’re adjustable shocks and...
Oh? When the data on the BFG KO2 variants in this sheet just happen to exactly match the official specification down to the last decimal place, when all of us know that's fiction
Maybe some of these are dead on to reality, hard to know for sure when some of them for certain aren't. Which was...
I'd recommend asking for fender to wheel hub center, to take the tire and tire pressure variable out of the equation. Full stock, brand new and empty, mine was 23.5" front and 24" rear. 23" front and 24" rear (no change) after winch and aluminum bumper install.
Currently with a heavy Alu-Cab...
Let's see, want to log a few more small things. Stock Alpine sound with the 8.4" on the Rubi is... well sound comes out, that's about all I can say for it. The Infinity Reference REF-3032CFX 3.5" tweeters for the upper dash went on sale, worth a shot, popped 'em in with the Metra 72-7902...
Started the camper build, kinda rushing to get to a usable state before a planned week in Death Valley backcountry over Thanksgiving. I looked at pre-made drop-down tables for the Alu-Cab rear door - as far as I can tell they're all sized for the Wrangler rear door (ie much shorter than the...
Started working on simple quality-of-life mods for the cab and camper. Got my old Scangauge II updated to handle all the turbodiesel readouts (ie boost, soot load, regens). Relocated the SiriusXM antenna, which gets partly blocked by the ACCC (I've quickly become addicted to the metal stations...
We put in a deposit on the Alu-Cab in May. Got the call in September (13 weeks). Drove up to Oregon for install at DasMule. Just the basic camper, Sikaflex in every nook and cranny, and the backup camera relocate, that's it. I have access to a full machine shop at work and my plan is to...
First up was winch and bumper (mandatory first mod for me). New Warn VR Evo 10s, and the MP Concepts aluminum copy of the Mopar steel bumper. Trying to choose light gear when I can with this build, and make sure utility per pound stays high, and stop throwing in all the extra just-in-case...
OK, kinda dumb name I know but my GF and I always have vehicle names. Between the week-long wandering trips we tend to do around CA/NV/AZ/MX, and me explaining to her about the somewhat wandering steering on a straight axle truck, it just kinda stuck. Anyway, let's do this. At this point this...
+1 to everything above. 22 JTDR + ACCC + winch, just finished a week around Death Valley with 2 ppl + 2 dogs + a week's supplies on stock suspension. Slow crawled up Lippincott Mine Rd and Silver Canyon (White Mtns) like a champ, soft stock suspension flexes great lol. Not much uptravel but...
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"Some 2021-2022 MY Jeep Gladiator vehicles equipped with a 3.0L diesel engine may have been built with a HPFP that could fail prematurely.
The suspect period began on June 4, 2020, when 3.0L Diesel engines with suspect HPFPs were introduced into vehicle production, and ended on May 13, 2022...