What did you do TO your Gladiator today? [ADMIN WARNING: NO POLITICS, NO GUN TALK]

[XraytecH]

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[XraytecH]

Your tailgate drops ? . Mine goes down slowly.. Built into the tailgate.

Yes I have the stock gas strut. It’s behind the driver side blinker.

I have one of those HDPE tailgate covers which adds quite bit of weight. So the tail gate “Swings” down a bit faster with the stock gas strut.

 

[BlueScapegoat]

I bought Hydro Blue from Automotive Touchup a few years ago. Both spray cans and a bottle. Both were lighter than my Jeep. I needed to add a touch of black to darken it up.

Awe that sucks. I've ordered three different paints from them and they were all exact matches. Even my 1 of 150 '91 alltrac

 

[zcashio]

Since we wheel in dusty areas a lot, we purchased the AmFib snorkel for our shop Rubicon XR.

I wanted the replacement panel to color match and not be black, so I rattle caned it with primer, then Anvil, then used 2k clear out of a can.

paint went down well, I think it turned out great!

That looks great! I took my amfib off my black JLUR when I traded it in and I’ve yet to install it on my new anvil. Now I’m wanting to paint mine to match, so thanks lol

 

[Supazuk]

Took off the running boards and the plastic mounts and upgraded to barricade enhanced rubi rails Had my 13 year old son help me .... spent more time chasing him down then putting them on but it was time well spent!

 

[WILDHOBO]

I need to do this.... Sometimes my Jeep sits for several days out of the week. On my 3rd set of Mopar batteries in less than 3 years.

I’m only on my second set of batteries. July of 2021 and 73k miles until now. I’m a firm believer in maintainers.

 

[WILDHOBO]

One piece of advice I got was to use all the same brand/line of products.
I painted my inner fenders both front and rear with Rustoleum products and it's held up well.
Self Etching Primer because the inners were aluminum, light sand with a fine grit sand paper, then top coat, no clear. I think I did 3 coats each of primer and top coat.

Recently, it was dirty at the time and sans fenders and bumper but you can see the inner well, the one big scuff to the right of the shock is from my sway bar hitting it, otherwise it has held up exceptionally.

Thanks very much. So much great info on this forum.

 

[El-Jefes-Gray-Ghost]

Added K-source tow mirrors.

 

[WILDHOBO]

Looks like they’ll work well. Do they come off easily?

 

[Supazuk]

Added K-source tow mirrors.

love mine

 

[Greg_L]

One piece of advice I got was to use all the same brand/line of products.

This is great advice for the casual painter. Most brands sell products that are designed to work together. It makes it easier for the less experienced, and most importantly, it works.

 

[WILDHOBO]

This is great advice for the casual painter. Most brands sell products that are designed to work together. It makes it easier for the less experienced, and most importantly, it works.

I dig it. Now the question is whether I can find mopar primer. I kid. I kid.

 

[Stan H]

I dig it. Now the question is whether I can find mopar primer. I kid. I kid.

Mopar Primer is probably Rustoleum brand relabeled kidding ..lol

 

[Greg_L]

Mopar Primer is probably Rustoleum brand relabeled kidding ..lol

It most definitely is something like that. I doubt "Mopar" has anything to do with the paint they use.

 

[WILDHOBO]

Mopar Primer is probably Rustoleum brand relabeled kidding ..lol

You’re likely right. Or old school krylon.

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