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So, it's been a while since I mentioned anything.
Life has been busy for me.
First, there was a little hospital-centric thing, that took (is taking) some time.
Secondly this year, we rented an electric jeep and did our March/April stuff in Utah/Nevada/Arizona in that thing. One word: "I was really, really impressed with how far that thing could go and just how capable a stock tire Ruby Wrangler is" Well so much for just a word... We didn't hold back, and we did not fail to finish any trail.
Next, for the main foray up into the Wyoming and the Montana, we loaded our Palamino truck camper into our new Ram 3500 Dually and punched a 4000+ mile hole into the odometer over another month.
No worries, there is an autumn KAT trip on the short-term horizon that will guarantee a complete swap out of the old mud the Gladiator has in places.
Before that, I am swapping out the suspension again.
I am not happy with the wandering all over and need a bit more caster. Secondly, the stout Clayton springs do not play all too well with the Falcon 3.3's. I don't like the jinky-ness it has going down the road so I am going to flatten the control arms some with a complete Terraflex 4.5" short arm kit. Those springs are a softer rate that will allow me to come off the dead soft setting and begin to utilize those shocks. Next, the arms will now be mounted to lowering brackets which will bring them back to where they were when Jeep built the thing. The rear gets all-new geometry allowing for 16" of travel (WHOA!) and the factory sway bar is getting ditched in favor of a frame-mounted unit that gets those trailing (wait-ah-minute) sway bar arms all gone.
The kit is ordered and I am tossing around the idea of buying and installing a garage lift before doing this, the Jeep's fourth suspension!
You can read the details when I get them here
AEV Gladiator Rubicon Part 2 (real-man-truckworks-and-survival.com)
or here when the build gets going again.
AEV Gladiator Rubicon (real-man-truckworks-and-survival.com)
Life has been busy for me.
First, there was a little hospital-centric thing, that took (is taking) some time.
Secondly this year, we rented an electric jeep and did our March/April stuff in Utah/Nevada/Arizona in that thing. One word: "I was really, really impressed with how far that thing could go and just how capable a stock tire Ruby Wrangler is" Well so much for just a word... We didn't hold back, and we did not fail to finish any trail.
Next, for the main foray up into the Wyoming and the Montana, we loaded our Palamino truck camper into our new Ram 3500 Dually and punched a 4000+ mile hole into the odometer over another month.
No worries, there is an autumn KAT trip on the short-term horizon that will guarantee a complete swap out of the old mud the Gladiator has in places.
Before that, I am swapping out the suspension again.
I am not happy with the wandering all over and need a bit more caster. Secondly, the stout Clayton springs do not play all too well with the Falcon 3.3's. I don't like the jinky-ness it has going down the road so I am going to flatten the control arms some with a complete Terraflex 4.5" short arm kit. Those springs are a softer rate that will allow me to come off the dead soft setting and begin to utilize those shocks. Next, the arms will now be mounted to lowering brackets which will bring them back to where they were when Jeep built the thing. The rear gets all-new geometry allowing for 16" of travel (WHOA!) and the factory sway bar is getting ditched in favor of a frame-mounted unit that gets those trailing (wait-ah-minute) sway bar arms all gone.
The kit is ordered and I am tossing around the idea of buying and installing a garage lift before doing this, the Jeep's fourth suspension!
You can read the details when I get them here
AEV Gladiator Rubicon Part 2 (real-man-truckworks-and-survival.com)
or here when the build gets going again.
AEV Gladiator Rubicon (real-man-truckworks-and-survival.com)
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