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

[WILDHOBO]

JSCAN does everything I need for a fraction of that, creates logs.
And I can use AlfaOBD with the same adapter and bypass cable, making for even BETTER logging and record keeping.
So for about 1/3 of that, I can do everything needed, and some nifty things like display misfires on a screen as I drive, show me a set of off-road pages that does what jeep's does - with more (including increasing idle speed for winching)
In other words, that was my point (I already knew what a tazer cost - the meaning of "but at what cost" wasn't asking for a literal price, but was saying it was a lot more expensive than other options.

If I knew this before I bought a tazer in 2021, I wouldn’t have. Oh well.

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[WILDHOBO]

A week after kidney surgery. I was ripping stuff off the Power Wagon before I traded it in for the JT.

My wife started a new job 10 hours after an emergency appendectomy. Stubborn and tough. I did drive her there though.

 

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BTW - to whom it may concern..............
a long heavy box marked "electric sway bar" arrived Thursday before we took off for the hospital for my surgery on Friday. I put it in the garage but won't be able to do a thing with it until at least sometime in November now due to weight restrictions, bending, leaning and so on.
Can't wait to get started on the front sway bar disconnect system........... so that will be a future "what did you do to" thing.
Just need to decide which of three options I want to use to make it disconnect. I think the manual method will be a last resort. There are three ways to do it electrically.
Thanks to the people involved.

Oh, please go old school and have a worn rawhide rope with a knot at the end for a disconnect.

If you had nothing but time on your hands, I think it'd be cool if you repurposed a locking hub center as the swaybar control (basically a cover of a rotating switch). Problem would be mounting location, as there aren't a lot of empty spaces in vehicles these days.

 

[RudeJeepin]

Oh, please go old school and have a worn rawhide rope with a knot at the end for a disconnect.

If you had nothing but time on your hands, I think it'd be cool if you repurposed a locking hub center as the swaybar control (basically a cover of a rotating switch). Problem would be mounting location, as there aren't a lot of empty spaces in vehicles these days.

There was an aftermarket swaybar disconnect for the TJ/LJ that used a locking hub as the disconnect method.

 

[Supazuk]

There was an aftermarket swaybar disconnect for the TJ/LJ that used a locking hub as the disconnect method.

they was one that used a toyota hub too I think trail gear made it

 

[RudeJeepin]

they was one that used a toyota hub too I think trail gear made it

Ya, I was thinking one used a warn hub also. That was just the first pic to pop up.
I always thought it was pretty slick idea.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I live in a state were you can not touch a phone or tablet while you drive ... so unless they make the jscan app work on the factory screen I can't us it while driving

And yet you can touch the factory "tablet". So you get a mount and have it in front of the factory screen.
Silly that people can be distracted by a factory screen, mess around with that clear over in the middle of the cab and yet can't touch a tablet - which the factory screen actually is.
Yet you can fiddle with a tazer while driving. The lawmakers don't understand anything about driving distractions obviously.

 

[Supazuk]

And yet you can touch the factory "tablet". So you get a mount and have it in front of the factory screen.
Silly that people can be distracted by a factory screen, mess around with that clear over in the middle of the cab and yet can't touch a tablet - which the factory screen actually is.
Yet you can fiddle with a tazer while driving. The lawmakers don't understand anything about driving distractions obviously.

ironically this comes from the state with no sales tax, no income tax, no helmet law, no seatbelt law, no proof of auto insurance no vehicle inspection, state run liqour stores on our highways, constitutional concealed and open carry. but don't touch that phone while driving

 

[Mightytalldude]

After my run on Black Bear, the boulder at the first switchback decided to let me know who was boss. Replacement flare showed up today, nice that it already has the clips included and installed, only had to move the liner and rivet it in, plus 4 new christmas tree clips. Install was maybe a minute after the liner install.

 

[Vtur]

Replaced the rear swaybar with a heavier duty one from whiteline. Replaced the rear links with fixed length 16” on center links from core 4x4. I found that I bent my metalcloak frame bracket reinforcement on the passenger side. I was able to partially straighten in in the press, but it’s not perfect, so the link isn’t perfectly straight or plumb on that side until it’s fixed. But it will work and it’s strong. I’ll call @Metalcloak and order a replacement. I hope I’m the first to bend it. Bragging rights and all. It saved me anyway. I drove home with a bent link and bracket, but I drove home without sway.

I'm thinking about getting this same swaybar. How you like it so far and how much does it helped with the body roll, and any rear end traction issue with bigger diameter bar?

 

[WILDHOBO]

And yet you can touch the factory "tablet". So you get a mount and have it in front of the factory screen.
Silly that people can be distracted by a factory screen, mess around with that clear over in the middle of the cab and yet can't touch a tablet - which the factory screen actually is.
Yet you can fiddle with a tazer while driving. The lawmakers don't understand anything about driving distractions obviously.

I’m waiting to get pulled over when my brake controller app is open on my mounted phone. Closer to me and doesn’t prevent me from taking eyes off the road. But it’s illegal to touch the phone. Don’t get me wrong. I like the law as it penalizes texting drivers. But bad behavior always penalizes the few that don’t do it. Oh well. That rule will save lives. Even if just a few. That’s enough.

 

[WILDHOBO]

I'm thinking about getting this same swaybar. How you like it so far and how much does it helped with the body roll, and any rear end traction issue with bigger diameter bar?

Very very pleased. It even decreased my roll angle on the identical obstacle and line. I did the obstacle one month prior and it was pretty sketchy. New bar in place and it was nothing. Others behind me had similar angles to my first run.

 

[Vtur]

Very very pleased. It even decreased my roll angle on the identical obstacle and line. I did the obstacle one month prior and it was pretty sketchy. New bar in place and it was nothing. Others behind me had similar angles to my first run.

Thanks for the feedback.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I’m waiting to get pulled over when my brake controller app is open on my mounted phone. Closer to me and doesn’t prevent me from taking eyes off the road. But it’s illegal to touch the phone. Don’t get me wrong. I like the law as it penalizes texting drivers. But bad behavior always penalizes the few that don’t do it. Oh well. That rule will save lives. Even if just a few. That’s enough.

The lawmakers have a good motivation, however, the end result of "hands-free" laws is nothing.
Study after study, including by Mythbusters themselves, university studies and so on, show that it's not the act of touching or holding the phone that's the issue - it's the distraction of the conversation itself. Hard to understand unless you see it proven out in front of you.
There's no difference holding or not holding the phone or going hands-free. It's the very act of conversation, thinking about it, paying attention to it and not your driving.

Nice efforts by lawmakers, but it's not going to save lives, people will either work around the law in some ways - and, how are you going to be seen using a phone zipping down the highway at 80 mph when there are no cops to see you.........
Only if you actually cause an accident and they check phone use history will it come out.

 

[Wildtoad]

Probably a connection issue - CHECK all battery connections. Wiggle, pull, whatever it takes, tug on them - we've seen this before when a battery clamp wasn't clean and TIGHT on a post.
In one case it actually got hot enough to melt the red cover over the positive - it was loose.

Thanks for the reply. Checked them. Problem(s) seem to have been resolved as the systems all got reset with the new batteries.

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