If you had $1500 to spend on your Jeep today....

[mike921921]

Won't cover a blower, so I was thinking maybe JeeTops - if I could read more positive reviews about them.....

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[BAT]

I forgot I wouldn't mind some soft doors

 

[BAT]

Forgot - I'd add Bedrug .......and a way to seal the tail gate. Tired of the snow and dust that gets in the back.

Lower control arms arrived today (MOPAR lift kit lower arms). Now to find time to install them.

Via that hole in the bottom of the tailgate. I bought some kind of gasket, cut it and plugged that sucker up. Believe I got the info from a thread on this forum

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Via that hole in the bottom of the tailgate. I bought some kind of gasket, cut it and plugged that sucker up. Believe I got the info from a thread on this forum

There seems to be a decent gap along the sides, too - but the bottom is way open for sure.

This was after an hour on snowy roads ->

 

[redman43]

Based on current state and my long term plans, definitely would be looking towards wheels and tires. Nothing crazy, probably just 33s, something more aggressive.

 

[Trickster]

There seems to be a decent gap along the sides, too - but the bottom is way open for sure.

This was after an hour on snowy roads ->

Hey I see you’ve got a ladder on the tailgate.
I had one on my Rams that I moved from truck to truck when I traded them up. After in and out of the JT bed while moving my late mother’s suite contents yesterday, I sure missed having one. I don’t remember where I purchased my old one from, do you have a source Bill?

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Hey I see you’ve got a ladder on the tailgate.
I had one on my Rams that I moved from truck to truck when I traded them up. After in and out of the JT bed while moving my late mother’s suite contents yesterday, I sure missed having one. I don’t remember where I purchased my old one from, do you have a source Bill?

My wife ordered that for me after seeing an ad on her phone. She asked if something like that would be handy, I said sure - next thing I know I have a ladder gift.
I see they are now sold on Amazon as well.
Apparently the thing caught on and they are now available cheaper on Amazon.

Here's a copy of another post I made - and below that, a link to the pictures I posted here -

This is the exact ladder - I searched emails and found the delivery notice -

https://shopusatrucksupply.com/products/usa-truck-tailgate-ladder

I am now seeing them even on Amazon - so this is likely the same thing.
https://www.amazon.com/Tailgate-Stainless-Drilling-Capacity-Universal/dp/B08ZRY1GB5

I did modify mine slightly.......... there's a steel plate that mounts to the tailgate. There are 2 square tubes welded to that plate that the ladder clips to. To give more clearance for the cable and bumper and allow mounting the ladder as low as possible on the tailgate to clear the tonneau cover, I used my Dremel and a metal cutting wheel, carefully cut the welds that held the steel tube closest to the truck from the mounting plate. I then re-welded the tube back to the plate about a quarter inch, maybe 3/8", from the corner of the plate and touched up the paint with crinkle paint.

https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/...e-damper-barely-noticeable.50620/#post-824921

 

[Trickster]

My wife ordered that for me after seeing an ad on her phone. She asked if something like that would be handy, I said sure - next thing I know I have a ladder gift.
I see they are now sold on Amazon as well.
Apparently the thing caught on and they are now available cheaper on Amazon.

Here's a copy of another post I made - and below that, a link to the pictures I posted here -

This is the exact ladder - I searched emails and found the delivery notice -

https://shopusatrucksupply.com/products/usa-truck-tailgate-ladder

I am now seeing them even on Amazon - so this is likely the same thing.
https://www.amazon.com/Tailgate-Stainless-Drilling-Capacity-Universal/dp/B08ZRY1GB5

I did modify mine slightly.......... there's a steel plate that mounts to the tailgate. There are 2 square tubes welded to that plate that the ladder clips to. To give more clearance for the cable and bumper and allow mounting the ladder as low as possible on the tailgate to clear the tonneau cover, I used my Dremel and a metal cutting wheel, carefully cut the welds that held the steel tube closest to the truck from the mounting plate. I then re-welded the tube back to the plate about a quarter inch, maybe 3/8", from the corner of the plate and touched up the paint with crinkle paint.

https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/...e-damper-barely-noticeable.50620/#post-824921

Thanks found it on Amazon. Traxion 5-100.
Price has gone up like everything else. $113 Canadian delivered.

 

[DankjeeP]

Forgot - I'd add Bedrug .......and a way to seal the tail gate. Tired of the snow and dust that gets in the back.

Lower control arms arrived today (MOPAR lift kit lower arms). Now to find time to install them.

Yeah, the dust is really getting tiresome. What have you come up with? I see mixed reviews for the TruXseal.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Yeah, the dust is really getting tiresome. What have you come up with? I see mixed reviews for the TruXseal.

I haven't decided on anything as like you, I see mixed results, mixed reviews. Even here in these forums some like a certain product and another comes along and says it didn't work for them.
I guess I'll just have to choose something and run with it. When we went to Israel we had to drive 3 1/2 hours to get to a meeting place to meet a bus going to the air port - and we had almost all of our luggage in the back. Don't like having stuff get in via the huge tailgate gap that's big enough to see through.

 

[DankjeeP]

I haven't decided on anything as like you, I see mixed results, mixed reviews. Even here in these forums some like a certain product and another comes along and says it didn't work for them.
I guess I'll just have to choose something and run with it. When we went to Israel we had to drive 3 1/2 hours to get to a meeting place to meet a bus going to the air port - and we had almost all of our luggage in the back. Don't like having stuff get in via the huge tailgate gap that's big enough to see through.

Yeah, the luggage is a real problem when we take a road trip and the cab is full of stuff. I'm going to try the TruXseal, fingers crossed it works.

 

[Gvsukids]

and we had almost all of our luggage in the back. Don't like having stuff get in via the huge tailgate gap that's big enough to see through.

Yeah, the luggage is a real problem when we take a road trip and the cab is full of stuff. I'm going to try the TruXseal, fingers crossed it works.

We wrap a tarp around our luggage.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

We wrap a tarp around our luggage.

Doable - but a pain.
Especially if the weather is less than great then you are messing with a tarp.
Even hauling other stuff back there can be a pain in the winter as the snow gets in and then stuff gets wet. Hate to wrap everything I haul - like 100 pounds of cat litter, 50 pounds of dry cat food, and other stuff.
The tonneau cover does a GREAT job - I've never had water get in because of that - it's always the tail gate that's a problem.

Anyway, seeing all of the stuff people are posting about that they'd get - those blue knob covers might look cool in a blue JT!

 

[Mightytalldude]

After reading through most of these comments, I think the better question is, with the $1500 you've already spent, what would you change, or buy again. I went through all my add-ons, and I'm easily $3k-$5k into mods. Best mods for myself, Bestop Sunrider top, and Badland 12k synthetic winch, and last a Mopar steel front bumper. Nothing so far for what I wouldn't buy again.

 

[Trickster]

I think the better question is, with the $1500 you've already spent, what would you change, or buy again. I

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