Depending on use case. If you donāt off-road, you donāt need one. If you rock crawl or get yourself into situations where you have a front wheel off the ground with the sway bar disconnected, having a locker is nice.
A winch may be more useful than a front locker if you donāt have one.
If I...
I suspect they would announce a new Wrangler before a new Gladiator. Probably a Dakota or something smaller to compete with the Maverick and the Santa Cruze.
If you go with the BDS make sure you get correction pads like these. https://rockkrawler.com/rock-krawler-front-spring-correction-pad-for-jeep-wrangler-jl-gladiator-jt/ and https://rockkrawler.com/rock-krawler-front-upper-neutral-spring-isolator-for-jeep-wrangler-jl-and-gladiator-jt/ I got both...
Iāve decided that Iām not going to worry about it. That being said. I will keep an eye on it next few oil changes and send off a sample to Blackstone or somewhere. Based off of some reading on BITOG and some earlier posts here itās probably just left over brake in material.
History of vehicle: 17,085 miles, Oil changes: 5,000 miles or less ( "most around 3,000 milesā) with 0W20 Penzoil Ultra Platinum. Motor is silent except for a rattle on start-up that it pretty much has always done. When I change the oil, it's pretty quiet on start-up for 2,000 miles, then gets...
It wonāt hurt to change the fluid, but it seems like thatās coming from the front end somewhere. Iād put someone else in the drivers seat to have them turn the steering wheel and crawl under there and look and listen to find where itās coming from.
Limited slip noise on these usually sounds...
I live at 6000 feet elevation had 37s and wheel sometimes up to 13500ish feet in elevation and it definitely needed more gear while wheeling than the stock āmax-towā 4.10 gears and the sport transfer case. The tires were rubbing the fenders at full flex pretty bad with a 3.5 in lift. With a...
My bilstein stabilizer made my steering pull to the left. Troubleshooting I took the stabilizer off and no pull.
Replaced it with a Falcon Nexus 2.2. Itās like itās on rails now and I would know Iām a locomotive engineer.
It kinda looks like if you want to get that tie rod end straight youāll have to loosen the toe adjuster clamps and reset the toe adjustment keeping the ends parallel.
That being said if you have adjustable control arms and are paying for an alignment just take it in and have the alignment shop...
No idea.
Probably because itās hot in Australiaš.
FWIW the backlash on both front and rear gears were out of spec ālooseā by a few thousands from the factory⦠I reset up the gears to get it into spec with my factory ring and pinions. So Iām unsure of how much the gear lube spec really matters...
The synthetic Valvoline in the bag so much easier to deal with than the old plastic bottles. I have ARB lockers and per their recommendation Iām running 75w140 but if I was stock probably just run 75w90 and if I had the limited slip use the Mopar additive.