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

[Freems]

I started building it before I found this pass through camper shell. I finished the drawers to use for the next couple trips, and I was going to design a new bed setup wher I could sit inside and utilize the tent pass through, but now that they are done and seeing how well it turned out I'm now second guessing if I want to use the pass through of the tent lol

Nothing better than “tinkering syndrome“. I’ll bet that 99% of this forums members are your brothers and sisters in JT Lego land. Long live the Tinkers!!!

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[JTdiRtyD]

Nothing better than “tinkering syndrome“. I’ll bet that 99% of this forums members are your brothers and sisters in JT Lego land. Long live the Tinkers!!!

It's a blessing and a curse. Even when something is working fine I can't help but try and find ways to improve it, which means I spend a lot of time in the shop and a lot of money redoing something that doesn't truly need to be redone. My brain just doesn't let me leave things alone.

 

[BourbonRunner]

I started building it before I found this pass through camper shell. I finished the drawers to use for the next couple trips, and I was going to design a new bed setup wher I could sit inside and utilize the tent pass through, but now that they are done and seeing how well it turned out I'm now second guessing if I want to use the pass through of the tent lol

I was going to ask you in your thread about the camper what the interior looked like!

This is an awesome setup. Got a link to the slides you used for the project? The tray looks like 3/4" ply- is there anything in the middle to keep it from flexing?

t's a blessing and a curse. Even when something is working fine I can't help but try and find ways to improve it, which means I spend a lot of time in the shop and a lot of money redoing something that doesn't truly need to be redone. My brain just doesn't let me leave things alone.

I do the same. ADHD makes everything needlessly complicated, doesn't it?

 

[JTdiRtyD]

I was going to ask you in your thread about the camper what the interior looked like!

This is an awesome setup. Got a link to the slides you used for the project? The tray looks like 3/4" ply- is there anything in the middle to keep it from flexing?

I'll update the build thread with some photos and info this evening.

 

[Mud Pie]

It's a blessing and a curse. Even when something is working fine I can't help but try and find ways to improve it, which means I spend a lot of time in the shop and a lot of money redoing something that doesn't truly need to be redone. My brain just doesn't let me leave things alone.

I agree wholeheartedly, but my "affliction" was towards work. I wrote programs and after I complied it and ran it, even though it worked, I kept going back for a "cleaner, leaner way". I wanted the program to be a small as possible but still accomplish the needed task. I HAD to do it.

My boss wrote what I always termed "bloatware", convoluting the word to suit my thought; too much to do too little. He'd always say, "It's fine, leave it be.", but when he wasn't around, I HAD to modify it. We were at a job once with the program he wrote and was bragging how good it was. I said, scoot aside. I pulled up the program and said, "Those 7 pages you wrote do to Optimal Start/Stop ? I modded it a week ago. Now half a page." He did the "no way". He read what I wrote. He TRIED to find something wrong, me sitting behind him saying, "You said when you got here it was running fine. What you looking for, Boss ?".

After he got done, I stood up and said, "Look at my face. Do I look smug ? I feel smug.".

He didn't say good job. He didn't say congrats. He said, "Send that file to me so I can look at it at the office.". "You got it. Find an error, beers on me. You don't, beers on you.". I got free beer.

 

[RudeJeepin]

It's a blessing and a curse. Even when something is working fine I can't help but try and find ways to improve it, which means I spend a lot of time in the shop and a lot of money redoing something that doesn't truly need to be redone. My brain just doesn't let me leave things alone.

This is why I bought a couple of new toys. I love to DIY stuff. I can mess with these for a fraction of the price.
Axial SCX30

SCX24 and SCX30

SCX30, 315/70r17 for size reference.

I enjoy rock crawling with them, but I probably enjoy tinkering and building more.

Probably couldn't buy 2 tires for my JTRD for what I have into them.

 

[TuckerGrover]

installed the grey man tactical molle panels in the gullwing doors of my OVS cap.

 

[Mud Pie]

Probably couldn't buy 2 tires for my JTRD for what I have into them.

As someone into DCC model trains, RC planes and now drones.....I can relate.

 

[Shibbyjeep]

Last night I did a 5 tire rotation, greased all my fittings and RCVs, straightened my steering wheel, and checked all my suspension was still torqued properly. Fun Maintenance stuffs, but important before going on a 6 hour trip one way this weekend for wheeling.

 

[BourbonRunner]

Last night I did a 5 tire rotation, greased all my fitting and RCVs, straightened my steering wheel, and checked all my suspension was still torqued properly. Fun Maintenance stuffs, but important before going on a 6 hour trip one way this weekend for wheeling.

That's this afternoon/evening's job on this end.

 

[yoda13]

Had new Teraflex HD ball joints put in

 

[THatch]

As of today:
Redline Hood Lift Struts & Brackets (Redline Tuning)
ONINE Low Profile Bed Cover (Amazon)
AMP Research Power Steps (RealTruck)
Coming in tomorrow:
Tackform Slim Track Bracket w/ Qi2.2 Charging & Cooling Phone Mount (TackForm)

I use CarPlay because the Gladiator I purchased didn't have navigation. I'm really liking the CarPlay app, but it really sucks battery like a siphon. Qi 2.2 is the way to go from everything I've read. I'd really like to get a passenger side retractable bed step and maybe add a powered sub to help the sound. Sound is not that good with the base stereo.

 

[ChrisNLA]

As of today:
Redline Hood Lift Struts & Brackets (Redline Tuning)
ONINE Low Profile Bed Cover (Amazon)
AMP Research Power Steps (RealTruck)
Coming in tomorrow:
Tackform Slim Track Bracket w/ Qi2.2 Charging & Cooling Phone Mount (TackForm)

I use CarPlay because the Gladiator I purchased didn't have navigation. I'm really liking the CarPlay app, but it really sucks battery like a siphon. Qi 2.2 is the way to go from everything I've read. I'd really like to get a passenger side retractable bed step and maybe add a powered sub to help the sound. Sound is not that good with the base stereo.

I added a Kicker 51HS10 behind the back seat in my truck. It took the stock (non Alpine) sound from garbage to acceptable. I don't listen to music super loud though, I just needed a source for some light bass. Any amount in the stock sound system made the speakers rattle.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

rather than remove the wiring in the winter, why not just drop a box over the whole installation to protect it from the weather Year round?

Had thought about that, but then realized things that get covered here almost always end up full of moisture and/or critter nests.
You would literally have to seal it somehow. Not possible in this situation.
I can't park my lawn tractor anywhere but a sealed building, otherwise I have critters of all sorts living in it - wasps, mice, chipmunks...................

I finished the second type of harness for it - so now I can plug in a set of leads to connect it to a battery, or a set of leads to run it off the power plug in the bed of my JT.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I wrote programs and after I complied it and ran it, even though it worked, I kept going back for a "cleaner, leaner way". I wanted the program to be a small as possible but still accomplish the needed task. I HAD to do it.

That's how I ended up standardizing the code between our 30-some ASAs and shrinking the lines down before I retired. I wasn't asked to - I just looked after the prior admin retired and thought - what a mess, I bet I can clean this up.
So I cleaned things up, took out the junk, organized the code so it was the same and in the same order for every ASA device and changed a few things that I thought made them more reliable.
After a few weeks, my boss came to me and asked if I had been doing anything with the remote offices - he was starting to get messages asking him what we'd done to fix things - up time was near or at 100% and people were saying the network seemed faster than it used to be.
My doing that violated every rule - but he didn't care - the news of the speed increases and reliability was reaching the agency administrator and he was telling my boss "well done".

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