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

[Splenda]

Installed a set of Novsight Halo Pro LED lights, and they're screwed up. The lights have a control box that allows you to change the color and pattern of the edge lights, and they are out of sync, so when I change them, they never match each other.

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[WILDHOBO]

Installed a set of Novsight Halo Pro LED lights, and they're screwed up. The lights have a control box that allows you to change the color and pattern of the edge lights, and they are out of sync, so when I change them, they never match each other.

Bummer. They look like knock off KC’s. I’ve never heard of them. Not that I’ve heard of half of the vendors out there.

 

[agoldxj]

I just paid off my JTM. I financed for 36 mos and paid it off in 29 mos. Now I have an extra $1323 a month now

Best mod of all, I’m curreny on track for a 7 months early payoff. Bought mine used.

 

[Jaxmax]

Best mod of all, I’m curreny on track for a 7 months early payoff. Bought mine used.

Paid my Mojave off in 48 months instead of the sixty , also paid wife’s Wrangler off early last month, good feeling ! Saves me $1,000 a month between the two of them….Jack

 

[Toothgnasher]

Replaced carpet with armorlite

I did this with my JLU, I'll be doing it with the JTRD as well. Handy for quick hose outs, and is a better sound insulator than the stock carpet.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

To add onto what @ShadowsPapa has described, and from my short time here on this forum I can attest that there is a wealth of knoweledge between those ears........setting up gearing will require more patience and understanding than swapping bearings. While many "luck out" during a bearing change, tight tolerances on bearings are limited to engagement surfaces during manufacture as a means to reduce cost. One stack up of a bearing from one assembly to the next can vary .004" - .016" depending on the size. Don't expect a plug and play here.
With gearing, there is an engineered mounting distance on bevels that is used as a reference dimension for manufacture. This is understood to be something adjusted at assembly to suit. The spiral helical nature of these gears, coupled with what appears to be lapped gearing in these trucks means the setup can vary quite a bit.
Two parts....
1) Proper backlash will ensure that when thermal growth occurs, the gears never bottom out against each other in mesh. If this were to happen catastrophic failure is on the table. Bevels are generally case hardened and can take fair amounts of abuse, but when stress risers are too great, teeth will break off. Just imagine the domino thereafter.
2) Gear contact should be checked. IMO this falls closely behind backlash on the setup in matter of importance. You will notice the wear pattern on your current gears and likely will not be able to duplicate this checking them statically. Without a load on the teeth, there is no deflection and contact is typically more confined. A setup that favors the inside diameter of the gearing will run quieter and more smoothly but at the cost of load capacity. Vice versa for the opposite in this regard. You ideally want contact in center of the tooth in every aspect. This will give the best opportunity for load capacity and smooth performance.

Well said.
One I did was under a car at a Kenosha event a while back. The thing had been "rebuilt by a respected axle shop" up there. My friend was driving the car back to Des Moines from Kenosha and after a few miles, the pinion bearings blew out. I mean catastrophic failure - locked that baby up. He got it hauled back where they put another differential under it and he hauled the first one back with him.
He got back to Iowa and dropped the blown one off with me.
It was a limited slip.
Ironically, not a single ding at all on the gear set! The pinion was perfect, the ring gear perfect. Not a mark and I checked everywhere - all edges, full length of every tooth on both. Wow.
I decided to open up the carrier and dig into the limited slip portion - what a joke. The plates and disks were all out of order and the spring plates were in the wrong locations. Some of the plates were doubled up instead of sandwiched with the disks and some were BLUE and in bad shape - scored. I had to wonder - what respected axle shop did this thing? What a mess - and pinion bearing failure so quick?
The owner furnished me the kit for both the limited slip and bearings and shims, crush sleeve and so on. It really didn't take much at all as far as carrier position change to get the correct backlash. Yes, the new bearings did change things enough in that one, I had to make some changes.
The pattern was good, the pinion depth fine. It turned out great.

 

[SaiintNick]

I just paid off my JTM. I financed for 36 mos and paid it off in 29 mos. Now I have an extra $1323 a month now

Great job!

 

[ShadowsPapa]

This cup shows sign of a potentially loose fit by the radial pattern displayed. This can cause all kinds of problems. Another explanation for this type of pattern is if the cup was seated into position somewhat crudely, at an angular back and forth approach into the seat but this is less common.

What "scared" me about that one was - the cup has quite a pattern of having turned in the housing, and next to it was this, in the picture below. ........... (dang, you have a good eye for this stuff, blows me away for sure!)

Yes, things were ill-fitting. I'm surprised it wasn't a loud differential with what I saw inside - the carrier was not a snug fit at all.

And the bearing that ran in that cup -

All found because of a leaking pinion seal and an "iffy looking" front pinion bearing cup.

(the above is from an AMC 15 rear axle. Luckily I have a whole tub of shims, spacers and so on for the 15 and 20)


The Dana 35 is an AMC 15 - AMC sold all of their differential/axle tooling to Dana somewhere in the mid 1980s.
So if you have a Dana 35, it all started under AMC in 1962.

 

[SaiintNick]

Finally got a windshield cover. Last summer the temps in my Wrangler got above 140 degrees. I didn't have ceramic tint last summer on my Wrangler and so far the clear ceramic tint blocks a lot of the heat. So this should help even more. It’s probably not going to last very long when it’s removed everyday. I just wanted a folding one because it takes up very little room and can be stored behind the rear seats once winter comes around which is a long time away here in the desert.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09NBM9YGC?ref=ppx_pt2_dt_b_prod_image&th=1

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Not 'to" yet, more 'for" -
Powder coated the shock reservoir relocation brackets. They come bare steel..
I have orange powder, maybe I made a mistake going black, hmmmm

 

[Mightytalldude]

Finally got a windshield cover. Last summer the tempos in my Wrangler got above 140 degrees. I didn't have ceramic tint last summer on my Wrangler and so far the clear ceramic tint blocks a lot of the heat. So this should help even more.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09NBM9YGC?ref=ppx_pt2_dt_b_prod_image&th=1

I still need to tint my windows, in addition to the window shade. 100° + 75% humidity makes for a real breathless experience down in the RGV.

 

[rhaney02]

Not 'to" yet, more 'for" -
Powder coated the shock reservoir relocation brackets. They come bare steel..
I have orange powder, maybe I made a mistake going black, hmmmm

Whatever the color, good powder coat always better than paint.

I see your OCD showing....

 

[Atheyisnumber1]

Bought mine a few weeks ago, finally got the lift/wheels/tires. Tint, rough country steps, 2.5” AEV dual sport lift, rhino 17” wheels, Toyo Open Country A/T 37x12.5 tires. Stoked with how it turned out!

 

[grandsrus]

I just paid off my JTM. I financed for 36 mos and paid it off in 29 mos. Now I have an extra $1323 a month now

Can i has the extra mula?

 

[SaiintNick]

I still need to tint my windows, in addition to the window shade. 100° + 75% humidity makes for a real breathless experience down in the RGV.

I don't miss the Texas humidity.

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