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

[BourbonRunner]

Honestly it was cheaper on Amazon than my local parts stores. Autozone couldn even get the one I wanted. They could only get the one with the green dye in it to see under a uv light I think was the benefit. Amazon had speical tech for like 39 for 5 quarts, vs Mobil one was like 44.99. And a bottle of the ceratec was l believe 31. If you have prime……


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Which LM 0W-20 did you use?They have a few different ones.Thanx

I'm surprised Autozone was able to order LM in the first place, even if it was the wrong flavor.

I used the same oil as @Jglad15 - Ow20 SpecialTec AA. I got it from FCP Euro because I had a big store credit there from BMW parts exchanges. Plus free shipping.

I think the delta was maybe 10-12 bucks less to get it on AZN.

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[Bandit’s Lair]

About as wrong a test as there could be. I was sitting in my driveway in the middle of a subdivision, 2 story houses all around. BUNCH of whatnot between me and the repeater. My wife and I are about to hit the road for the rest of the week, I'm going to give both antenna's a shakedown. Right now I'm (learning) how to program in the repeaters along the trip; I have 2 programmed, going to try some more. The Midland makes it super easy to program it in, my handhelds...not so much.

TBH, the ghost antenna did perfectly fine while on the road and it will probably be my go-to antenna in place of the whip; one less pokey-uppy-thingy to worry about on the Jeep. And less of a visual flag there's a radio onboard, most do not know what a ghost antenna is for or what it does.

Oh, the super-duper quite expensive industrial Velcro that "says" it can hold up a 10 year old kid indoors or outdoors, well, it claims 75 lbs, not a child (I'm a bit of an ass).... gave way under this Texas heat. Not a big deal, barely hung down from under the dash, but I may try the Zip-Tie Method, I'm not one to drill holes in my vehicles for any reason.

Ok was just wondering. I’m not much of a radio use snob or anything like that. If you were hitting repeaters in a subdivision like that you should be good on the trail.

On the Velcro and zip tie thing I’d leave the Velcro in place and add a couple of those longer zip ties to it. Zip ties can stabilize the up and down and Velcro adds to back and forth stability and keeps the noise down from the plastic of the radio housing rubbing against everything,

 

[NotSo Bright White]

Those covers are !

Thank you

 

[RubiNewbCB]

Be careful with the use of the fire emoji with the recall going on... lol

I checked the other day and my JTRD wasn't on the List, then opened the JEEP App yesterday afternoon and boomI now have a recall notice!!! Damn the luck.

 

[Cattywumpuss]

So, we don’t really have any official Jeep trails here in AK. But we do have plenty of trails, and off road opportunities and spectacular sights and so on. And given that Gladys is all about fun, I went ahead and started sticking custom trail badges on her . . .

 

[Cattywumpuss]

Added some more green accents! Because I love green!

 

[Jeepmonster]

Link to site please?

I bought mine at Extreme Terrain. There's a 30% discount.

https://www.extremeterrain.com/more...p3zgxAijbzfP8Fk8e9Z1GyPDeUbBqJmsaAr-UEALw_wcB

 

[Mud Pie]

I bought mine at Extreme Terrain. There's a 30% discount.

https://www.extremeterrain.com/more-jeep-gladiator-bed-steps-textured-black-jtrbs.html?utm_campaign=XTG+Gladiator+Brands+&+Vehicle+Low+LTVTop&dialogtech=ppc&utm_source=google-pla&utm_medium=shopping&T5_Var2=shopping&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22705047497&gbraid=0AAAAADdHURTshw14GUCwxVbG-xiW3wfkb&gclid=Cj0KCQjwi8nRBhDhARIsAHZf_pZk8Ou_wiBHIfeMCEpmhd-p3zgxAijbzfP8Fk8e9Z1GyPDeUbBqJmsaAr-UEALw_wcB

I've purchased many a decal from Extreme Terrian, good company, good decals. I've also purchased from Adventure Life USA (I especially like their custom hood decals), another good company.

 

[RudeJeepin]

I checked the other day and my JTRD wasn't on the List, then opened the JEEP App yesterday afternoon and boomI now have a recall notice!!! Damn the luck.

Damn the luck is right...both my wife's Wrangler and my Gladiator are on the list.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

This is indirectly for the JT - as I pull this trailer with the JT and want to power the little winch on the trailer with the truck. So, I am making it so that I can either use a battery on the trailer, or my truck.
I have a connector mounted in the truck bed.... (wiring run along frame from engine bay to anderson in bed wall thanks to the crazy hobo guy since I can't lay under vehicles any more)

Ideas/points behind this mod:
I didn't like having a long cord on the winch at all times - wire exposed to the sun and worse.
I want to power the winch from my truck's bed connector.
I want the option to power the winch from some other source, say a battery somewhere.

Idea:
Make a cord that will plug in at the winch on the trailer and run to the connector in the truck bed.
Make a second cord that will plug in at the winch on the trailer and have clips that can connect to the battery.

Connector in truck bed - powered through winch solenoid so I hit aux 3 to trigger the solenoid. Protected by this 50 amp breaker here.

Anderson connector in bed -

Another connector on the trailer - now to make the cable that will connect the two. It's a tilt-bed trailer so the winch won't be running very hard. I did the math on the incline vs. the weight being pulled up said incline in degrees and figured a 2500 pound winch will only need about 1200 pounds pulling power. If I used a snatch block, even LESS. We pulled a 383 Firebird up the trailer using my winch and a battery charger a while back!

Why a breaker here since there's one in the engine bay? Well, if I use a battery or something other than my truck, this will be a breaker in that case.
I have some cleanup and rearranging to do, some things aren't clean and straight, some wires could be shorter, that sort of thing - but it's getting there.
When winter comes, 2 nuts and 5 screws and I can pull the wiring off for the winter and cover the winch.

 

[BourbonRunner]

@ShadowsPapa

How big of a solenoid did you connect to Aux 3 to trigger it?

Eventually I want to do the same with my bumper winch instead of a direct battery connection but have some decisions to make.

1. Cut the existing winch power line, insert an Anderson between the battery and the winch, then use the plug to power the winch, compressor when needed or jump start a vehicle. I'd have a constant hot running down to the bumper but that's the way it is already.

2. Install the solenoid, then the above but eliminate the jump starting option and use an aux to trigger the solenoid like you have.

Any thoughts?

 

[ShadowsPapa]

@ShadowsPapa

How big of a solenoid did you connect to Aux 3 to trigger it?

Eventually I want to do the same with my bumper winch instead of a direct battery connection but have some decisions to make.

1. Cut the existing winch power line, insert an Anderson between the battery and the winch, then use the plug to power the winch, compressor when needed or jump start a vehicle. I'd have a constant hot running down to the bumper but that's the way it is already.

2. Install the solenoid, then the above but eliminate the jump starting option and use an aux to trigger the solenoid like you have.

Any thoughts?

I have a solenoid from Warn to connect my front bumper winch. It's held up nicely over the years.
I didn't want battery power to the back end, unswitched, so figured no harm in tying into the output side of the solenoid for the big Apex up front - so if I hit aux 3, it powers up the front winch and supplies power to the rear. Since I'd never ever be running both at the same time, I don't care if the front has power while it's sitting still running a winch on the trailer.
And I really won't care of that rear Anderson is powered up while using the front winch.

A is going to the Badland Apex up front, B goes to the breaker in the picture below, then on to the connector in the bed.

 

[BourbonRunner]

Thanks Bill. Good stuff.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Damn the luck is right...both my wife's Wrangler and my Gladiator are on the list.

I fully expected my 25 to be involved....... I've not read their cutoff dates and so on.......
But - both our 25 JTMX and 26 JLUR come up clean.
Odd..........

 

[Bandit’s Lair]

@ShadowsPapa Holy Moses that is a wiring project and a half!! I’m sittin here trying to figure out trigger switches for winch and compressor and all that. I’ve decided I’m going to run the VoSwitch JL-500 that mounts where the bed inverter switch is located for my winch power on-air compressor- lockers and maybe the last switch to control DRLs in the AuxBeam pods I’ll eventually install. That way all the bigger items are to my Left and nobody else can “accidentally” bump or press anything. If something blows because it was on when it shouldn’t have been it’s all on me.

Just have to figure wiring so that the only thing those switches are doing is triggering power to the devices and not actually powering anything. Should be pretty simple unless I totally misunderstand 12V wiring.

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