Tough to beat a pontoon boat for inland lakes. Especially the tritoons with big motors or twins.
Unless you're wanting to do some wakeboarding, surfing, tubing, etc. Pontoons don't work very well for tow sports because of the crappy wake.
The club is based in the Toledo area. You can find the group on Facebook. There are 2 groups, one is a Glass CIty Crawlers for sale group.
They can direct you to Jeep friendly shops, people that do side jobs, etc. The club president, Paul Porter, is a long friend of mine.
It does depend on the V8. Yes you can take an old, outgoing V8 and get outperformed by a new turbo 6.
If you want the most powerful gas truck from Ram, Ford, or Chevy, it's going to be a V8. I don't think that means the V8s are getting trounced.
Gladiators catching fire threads here, but I can't say these were from the power steering connector:
https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/forum/threads/fire-fire-my-gladiator-burned-down.58206/
https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/forum/threads/gladiator-on-fire-burned-to-the-ground%E2%80%A6.48078/...
Probably what I'd do.
Is it a valuable item and easy to sell? ARB diff covers, for example, those should go quick. Good brand and nothing to wear out. Infintiy speakers, I wouldn't bother with removing those since used electronics are a tough sell at a low price.
Is the part easy to remove...