ShadowsPapa
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- First Name
- Bill
- Joined
- Oct 12, 2019
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- Location
- Runnells, Iowa
- Vehicle(s)
- '22 JTO, '23 JLU, '82 SX4, '73 P. Cardin Javelin
- Occupation
- Retired auto mechanic, frmr gov't ntwrk security admin
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But people seem to be afraid to let these wind up. They'll take a Honda running 6,000 RPM any day, but when these hit 4,000 they freak out or don't like it and believe they need to keep it in the low 2,000s. Heck, it's not even breathing hard at 2500 RPM. The intake valves don't even touch high lift until about 2800 or so. They aren't even sucking enough air through the filter to worry about having enough. I'd see RPM with my LS equipped Chevy truck that exceeds what seems to bother some folks with the 3.6
E rated? Sorry, but.........Heck no. I'd never go to that extreme.
I want rubber sidewalls, not sidewalls made of rock and make it ride like my old F250 4x4 with the heavy-duty suspension and overload springs or my grain trucks where we could fudge weight numbers during harvest.
I don't tow often enough to give up the ride and go back to the ride of my 67 Chevy 3/4 ton beater where you bounced in the seat at every bump in the road.
The issue is definitely width. It's a small truck, not like the Chevys or Fords I've had that were big, wide, heavy. (it may be due in part to the crappy Rubicon fox shocks I was running, too - not impressed at all with them. Not sure if I'll bother putting them back onto the new truck or not.)
I don't run stock tires, and I air my tires up for towing, over what I normally run in them.
Two things - my 2022 has much tighter steering than my 2020 did. The 2020 was fine after the second steering gear swap - drove fine, but this one is extremely tight. You budge that steering wheel even just slightly, the truck responds. It's taking me some getting used to as it reminds me of my wife's Grand Cherokee were if I lean to reach something, twitch just a bit and the Jeep jerks. This is that way, too - the steering is tight, almost twitchy, it reminds me also of a car with tight or fast ratio steering. It's not, but it has that feel.
Also - the engine has a different "feel". It responds differently. Not better or worse, but differently.
It will be interesting towing with it next month if I ever get this thing set up for towing. I need to do something fast about the springs and/or air bags, and get the brake controller installed and other stuff.
Anywho - does the JT struggle? No. It's a light truck, not a F250 4x4 with the width and weight of a full-sized truck. The engine does fine, transmission does fine. It's just a more narrow, light truck. It's not made to haul fully loaded farm wagons through rough fields.
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