Engine cover - not on all vehicles ?‍♀️ so the dealer tells me , is this posibly true

[BearFootSam]

Aug 22 build, no cover. It’s best, the JY has a clean, open engine bay and there’s no benefit from adding clutter.

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[ecidiego]

Yea. They started leaving them off. They're pretty useless anyway. I took mine off about three years ago and never put it back on. I started using it as a holder for nuts and bolts. I don't know where it is now.

So you never found the bolts?

 

[tysongladiator]

So you never found the bolts?

I think I worded it wrong. What I meant by using it to hold nuts and bolts was when I'm working on my Jeep, I used the cover as a plate to hold the nuts and bolts that I removed so I knew where they were when I get ready to reinstall them.

As an engine cover, didn't need it. As a nut, bolt, and parts holder, useful.

 

[ecidiego]

I think I worded it wrong. What I meant by using it to hold nuts and bolts was when I'm working on my Jeep, I used the cover as a plate to hold the nuts and bolts that I removed so I knew where they were when I get ready to reinstall them.

As an engine cover, didn't need it. As a nut, bolt, and parts holder, useful.

was a joke

 

[tysongladiator]

was a joke

Gotcha! Half asleep. Slow to catch that one.? I gotta do better!?

 

[ShadowsPapa]

For those who missed it..............

But keep on reporting if your 2022 doesn't have a cover LOL

For those who removed it - or those who think it makes a good place to hold nuts and bolts or small tools, here's an idea for you:

Take a flywheel (maybe one of the failed Jeep flywheels) and lay it flat on your welding bench.
Take a piece of 1" black pipe about 30" tall or so, threaded on the top end, and weld it to the center of the flywheel.
On top of that pipe, thread a pipe flange, and attach the engine cover to the pipe flange.
You now have a small tool stand that says "Jeep" on it

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Yea. They started leaving them off. They're pretty useless anyway. I took mine off about three years ago and never put it back on. I started using it as a holder for nuts and bolts. I don't know where it is now.

Another video idea

 

[tysongladiator]

For those who missed it..............

But keep on reporting if your 2022 doesn't have a cover LOL

For those who removed it - or those who think it makes a good place to hold nuts and bolts or small tools, here's an idea for you:

Take a flywheel (maybe one of the failed Jeep flywheels) and lay it flat on your welding bench.
Take a piece of 1" black pipe about 30" tall or so, threaded on the top end, and weld it to the center of the flywheel.
On top of that pipe, thread a pipe flange, and attach the engine cover to the pipe flange.
You now have a small tool stand that says "Jeep" on it

Ahhhhh........ I just screenshot that idea. Now, I have to dig through the storage shed to find that cover. Either find the one I took off my JT or my wife's JKU. Then go find a flywheel. You're on to something. Wait for that video. It's coming!?

 

[RudeJeepin]

For those who missed it..............

But keep on reporting if your 2022 doesn't have a cover LOL

For those who removed it - or those who think it makes a good place to hold nuts and bolts or small tools, here's an idea for you:

Take a flywheel (maybe one of the failed Jeep flywheels) and lay it flat on your welding bench.
Take a piece of 1" black pipe about 30" tall or so, threaded on the top end, and weld it to the center of the flywheel.
On top of that pipe, thread a pipe flange, and attach the engine cover to the pipe flange.
You now have a small tool stand that says "Jeep" on it

Both our 21 JL and 22 JT had the engine cover. The 22 JT's cover is in the shop.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Both our 21 JL and 22 JT had the engine cover. The 22 JT's cover is in the shop.

Your JT cover was dealer installed, not factory. The document PDF I posted a page or two back is to tell dealers " we see what you are doing, cut it out". That's basically a GPOP document.
Yes your JL had it if made before end of the 21 model year production.

 

[KevinC]

I guess I am weird, I took the engine cover off my 2021 Gladiator and put it on my 2022 Gladiator.

Not weird, just eccentric.
I did the same thing but failed in my mission. I removed the cover on my 2020 JTR when I traded it in thinking I would put it on my 2023 JTM that came without one. Unbeknownst to me at the time, it requires some attachment bolts/brackets that I didn't take off.

I should have read up on the forums.

KevinC

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Not weird, just eccentric.
I did the same thing but failed in my mission. I removed the cover on my 2020 JTR when I traded it in thinking I would put it on my 2023 JTM that came without one. Unbeknownst to me at the time, it requires some attachment bolts/brackets that I didn't take off.

I should have read up on the forums.

KevinC

The first few months they still had the brackets. That's how it was so easy for dealers to think it was just "forgotten" so they ordered them and slapped them on and Jeep noticed this. Later, the brackets were left off as well.

 

[Uparms]

Yes on 2020 built in 2019 and none on 2023, built August 2023.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

All I can say is DUH ? and refer back to this again -

Note the date of this GPOP -
2021
And the affected vehicles -
ALL GLADIATORS AND WRANGLERS.

They are warning dealers - cut it out! We aren't going to pay you if you remove brackets or order and install a cover. Jeep is saying "pay attention".
I guess dealership shops don't bother reading the documents that are sent to them......telling them of changes.

 

[JTGuy]

My '22 built 2-22 does not have a cover. Less weight and runs cooler and one less part to remove when installing a 6.4 Hemi.

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