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

[WILDHOBO]

Good to hear I'm not the only one

Definitely not. And I had to have one rebalanced after breaking a bead on Friday. So it was a totally different shop. They had to use a decent amount as well.

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[WILDHOBO]

the answer is a Fumoto valve or similar (valvomax, etc). Easiest oil change in the world. get the accessory tubing and it'll slip right onto the nipple.

I love mine, and put one on my wife’s car quickly after. Now changing her oil isn’t a terrible experience. It’s just easy.

 

[Zero_Accel]

What bumper is that?

Rebel Off-Road Summit series bumper with optional sliders, coated with Prismatic Powder Poison Spyder Black to mach my Poison Spyder Front Bumper. Thing's a tank, much nicer than my old Go-Rhino bumper. I wrote a little more in detail here.

 

[Geometricwoodbutcher]

Installed my new winch and bumper over the weekend, while doing political things simultaneously. ? strangest admin note I’ve ever seen in a Jeep forum not related to alternative fuel sources.

 

[MojaveLawyer]

Preventative maintenance. New HD Dynatrac Ball Joints, just turned 80k miles, 65k of it with 37s on the stock ball joints, truck steering feels tighter over the washboards.

Taking Tetris to another level. ?

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[ShadowsPapa]

ill get ya some later. not allowed to take pics at work

Gee, I wonder why - certainly nothing to do with where you work and what you do there, I'm sure.....

 

[TotallyReasonable]

Nothing crazy, changed the oil yesterday over my lunch break. It was desperately needed, I had been neglecting my baby while healing from some surgeries from Q423. Starting to warm up here and excited to get her out and play.

 

[Wolf Island Diver]

Finally a good attic!

I had a Raingler. There were some issues with its mounting (it tensioned unevenly). But at least it could be tensioned. The big problem is that it’s just open webbing. I usually keep rain jackets in the attic and sleeves are always falling down through its large hole. It’s also sort of small.

So I got the Blue Ridge Overland Gear Attic. https://www.blueridgeoverlandgear.com/products/jeep-jt-gladiator-attic

This is well made and full mesh, but there’s one glaring problem. This attic has the most worthless means of tensioning it. Basically, you can’t. Not really. You can spend a long time messing with it which is frustrating. I was never able to get it as tight as I wanted. It also got droopier over time.

Blue Ridge Overland Gear doesn’t want to hear anything negative about their products, so I just spent some more money and fixed it myself.

I replaced the hardware on the left on all 6 straps with the cam lock on the right.
$4.97: https://a.co/d/f0uKP9U

Now I can actually tension the attic properly.

 

[KQL]

I can confirm blue ridge’s attic tightening system is a potato. It’s been a while since I installed mine (still remember the cursing), but did you have to sew the ones to swap over to them?

 

[chorky]

Gave the JTR a sibling.

Hi, my name is Chad - and I have an addiction....

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Gave the JTR a sibling.

Hi, my name is Chad - and I have an addiction....

Looks a little bit like the neat looking Jeep we see now and then around Ankeny -

 

[chorky]

Looks a little bit like the neat looking Jeep we see now and then around Ankeny -

Yeah it's a half cab made by Gr8Tops. I'm probably going to remove it and put a full length hard top back on. But it was designed by a guy named Jeff S..something. He has a bunch of patents for Jeep things by them, and MORE, and even the Dinoot Jeep tub trailer was designed by him. he has a lot of cool things for the TJ/LJ. What sold me on this was the condition. For its age it has basically no rust. Nothing that can't be spot checked. Every other option I was looking at was either in the 45K range of show quality, or a total rust bucket that wouldn't last another 5 years. This one looks like it is only 2 or 3 years old effectively. Gonna get it all cleaned up and have a body shop take care of a couple scratches and frame spots, then treat it with the same rust prevention I did on the JTR. The TJ is too far gone now, and I only drove it 12 days in the winter 4 years ago. That's all it took for it to rust too bad to be corrected reasonably.

This will be the 'old man' Jeep. A very mild build suitable for a couple nights of camping. But nothing like the JTR.

 

[Sw00per]

With the extra thickness of the flare extension, I did make a small clearance cut on the RB flaps to let it lay flatter.
Install was pretty easy.
Now, the flares were time consuming because none of the existing holes lined up at all on my Sport S fenders. The curve was perfect to fall flush at the bottom though!

Thanks - I have a Mojave with the factory Mopar rails which I think RokBlokz refers to as Rubicon rails. I will have to search for a Mojave owner that has installed them since I think the fender flares are different. I do like the quick detach ability. I also want to make sure they would function as expected with my ) offset wheels fitted with BFG 35 that are 12.5.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Yeah it's a half cab made by Gr8Tops. I'm probably going to remove it and put a full length hard top back on. But it was designed by a guy named Jeff S..something. He has a bunch of patents for Jeep things by them, and MORE, and even the Dinoot Jeep tub trailer was designed by him. he has a lot of cool things for the TJ/LJ. What sold me on this was the condition. For its age it has basically no rust. Nothing that can't be spot checked. Every other option I was looking at was either in the 45K range of show quality, or a total rust bucket that wouldn't last another 5 years. This one looks like it is only 2 or 3 years old effectively. Gonna get it all cleaned up and have a body shop take care of a couple scratches and frame spots, then treat it with the same rust prevention I did on the JTR. The TJ is too far gone now, and I only drove it 12 days in the winter 4 years ago. That's all it took for it to rust too bad to be corrected reasonably.

This will be the 'old man' Jeep. A very mild build suitable for a couple nights of camping. But nothing like the JTR.

If I was not spending too much money on other stuff (drugs, insurance, having a whole new stairway put in my garage because I can't deal with the one I made 20 years ago) and other stuff - I'd have one like you picked up in a heartbeat. The beauty I saw in Ankeny had me all dreamy over such a Jeep. Man, I loved that thing. IT would become my daily driver.

 

[Wolf Island Diver]

I can confirm blue ridge’s attic tightening system is a potato. It’s been a while since I installed mine (still remember the cursing), but did you have to sew the ones to swap over to them?

No, that’s it. I have some self grip Velcro (or whatever that’s called) straps I was going to use, or I was going to have to sew it. After playing with it, found that the simplest thing worked.

I swapped this:

For this:

Where the strap runs through the clip end, just run it through the 1 slit, so it can freely move. Run the end back to the cam lock. The strap is going through the other side of the cam lock like the original hardware. It can slide around until the cam is tightened. It’s a little bit of a pain to get it all lined up at first, but then I was able to easily cinch everything up.

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