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

[Gizmo]

Finished up the RK Triangulated rear arms. Been doing little bits when I had time , drill one day tap another and so on. Between being almost 72 and taking care of Alzheimers wife garage time is not what it used to be. Glad I have the Bilstein 8100 DSA shocks I was able to fine tune the handling a bit. Reinstall the full size spare tire today and will probably have another adjustment on the slow speed compression side after that. So far so good

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[SKT]

Not today, but recently;

Great looking Gladiator - really like the stance and overall set-up!

What lift and tire combo are you running?

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[Mud Pie]

I put my new EZ4x4 four door cart together last night (easy-peasy). I'm liking this thing !!

Rolled it out to the driveway, and for the first time ever, I pulled off my front doors !! That cart made storing them incredibly easy, WELL worth the money. Only took off the front doors this time. Then put on my doors off mirrors that I bought a couple days after I bought the Jeep last November. Been behind the rear seat ever since. Popped the top (new sunscreen still on) and went for a ride.

Instantly brought back that Jeep feeling that I've been missing for decades. Left foot naturally migrated to the threshold, where it belongs. I bought a waterproof cab cover back in November, also. I think I'll be sporting that tonight and leave the doors off. It just seems...right.

I learned something today. You can be happy driving your door-less Jeep. You can smile widely in your door-less Jeep. But refrain from chair-dancing along with the radio in your door-less Jeep. A car pulled along side me, smiling, clapping and doing "raise the roof" hand gestures. Kinda embarrassing....lol.

I should've done this in spring, not summer.....

 

[Idlethunder]

Installed the coverking liners my wife gave me for Christmas

 

[Bantam]

Got the tonneau cover installed and some Rubi Rails to help the wife with a step - she still prefers the plastic ones that the Overland JT used to come with, but those have been difficult to find locally.

 

[Mud Pie]

Pic of the cab cover. Impulse purchase of when I first bought my Jeep. Not of the highest quality, not bad, but for 50-something bucks, it kept the leaves, flies and whatnot out of my Jeep overnight. Super easy to deploy. It sure makes it easy to leave the doors and top off. I like that the bottom edge was taut against the body, my concern was my 3 cats would shimmy under and make my Jeep their new clubhouse. They do crap like that..... they already like lounging on the hard tonneau, surveying the neighborhood.

My original intention was to use it as a emergency rain fly when the top was off.

I think my doors may be off for a longer time frame than I originally intended.....

 

[Freems]

I took advantage of Prime Day and ordered a sunscreen for the front and rear of my Jeep. It came in this evening, I'll be installing it tomorrow. On Monday, I got it for 55 bucks for both sections "Prime Day Special" and all that. Since then I've watched the price jump back and forth from 55 bucks to 90 bucks. I've seen that quite a bit, I wonder why Amazon does that...odd. And unfair.

The Orwell’in greed beast tracks every move you make, even if you simply pause over an item and not open it starts the tracking algorithm’s, open the item and spend a few seconds reading it, a flood of new algorithms kick in, back and forth pricing to get you to take that big juicy worm on the hook. It will propose alternatives for you (think jigging for bass methodology). Then a personal favorite…if your tv is connected (smart tv) you may even notice a commercial on tv for the product you’ve been looking at. That TV piece is one of the worm and hook for the manufacturers to invest with the beast in even a more expensive $ marketing plan contract. The beasts standard OEM sales plan is simply customer types in what their looking for and it’s pay scale for your company to get the first hit on that word (product). This is called a 360 degree sales plan model. Odd, no. Unfair to the consumers, maybe. The sad part is that no one on earth has enough money to challenge the oligarchy in court of unfair business practices, especially on a global basis.

BTW, even FB Marketplace has copied some of this…open is up and stop on a post, and within seconds it will show you tons of similar posts…

 

[WILDHOBO]

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 . . .

When the BOH program finally adds an AK trail, I’m planning a trip. I can’t wait. I’d even put it on a boat for a HI trail. Maybe after retirement.

 

[WILDHOBO]

Pic of the cab cover. Impulse purchase of when I first bought my Jeep. Not of the highest quality, not bad, but for 50-something bucks, it kept the leaves, flies and whatnot out of my Jeep overnight. Super easy to deploy. It sure makes it easy to leave the doors and top off. I like that the bottom edge was taut against the body, my concern was my 3 cats would shimmy under and make my Jeep their new clubhouse. They do crap like that..... they already like lounging on the hard tonneau, surveying the neighborhood.

My original intention was to use it as a emergency rain fly when the top was off.

I think my doors may be off for a longer time frame than I originally intended.....

I had a CJ in Florida that I always used a cab cover on. I found a super large raccoon in it when I went to take it somewhere. That was not the surprise I wanted. Nor the pile of crap it left in the passenger footwell.

 

[WILDHOBO]

I looked up in NHTSA and checked the dates - mine was built in the spring of 2025 and my wife's 26, in December 2025 so both are after the 2024 cutoffs.
Whew.
Now to keep my perfect never going off-topic record, I cleaned up the wiring on the trailer winch setup and started making the cables to connect the winch to the power in my JT's bed.

Took several inches out of the two wires that run to the winch motor and covered up the wires a bit to make it neater and keep the sun off at least some of the wire.

I tilted the trailer bed to make sure it didn't make a difference in the length needed.....

It will plug into the Anderson located here - (once more of this nice OFC wire arrives so I can finish it)

I simply love a good wiring project. Nice job as always, Bill.

 

[WILDHOBO]

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.

You just reminded me that I keep forgetting to redo the harness for the rear receiver winch. So I can use it on the tractor. Cuz…why not. So far using the little Warn drill winch a lot on the tractor. But I’ve found its pull limit a couple of times already.

 

[WILDHOBO]

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".

I miss ASAs. Still have a handful deployed at clients, but they’re on the chopping block. So reliable and efficient. Wait for it. Here come the juniper folks…

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I miss ASAs. Still have a handful deployed at clients, but they’re on the chopping block. So reliable and efficient. Wait for it. Here come the juniper folks…

Our core switch was Juniper. The thing I liked was the more universal code used. IF you knew one or two products, you could handle them all.
I had to figure out how to let our main network ASA back in Des Moines let in VPN traffic and route it to a specific spot in the Juniper switch and have that switch filter and send it to a port on the virtual VPN server I set up. That server had to be firewalled as well. It took some doing and I bet that when the central IT guys took over, they were pulling their hair out trying to figure it all out.
It was bullet-proof VPN. The user had to be in a specific AD group, and the computer had to be a member of another AD group and then the VPN itself looked for a specific file and registry entry on the computer as well as current AV software.
We never could get Cisco VPN to work because it wanted people logged into Windows before it would launch - the VPN I used connected and allowed a connection to our domain before Windows login. And that meant I could run login scripts as well.

 

[Cattywumpuss]

When the BOH program finally adds an AK trail, I’m planning a trip. I can’t wait. I’d even put it on a boat for a HI trail. Maybe after retirement.

When you make it up here let me know and we can go hit a trail or two!

 

[WILDHOBO]

Our core switch was Juniper. The thing I liked was the more universal code used. IF you knew one or two products, you could handle them all.
I had to figure out how to let our main network ASA back in Des Moines let in VPN traffic and route it to a specific spot in the Juniper switch and have that switch filter and send it to a port on the virtual VPN server I set up. That server had to be firewalled as well. It took some doing and I bet that when the central IT guys took over, they were pulling their hair out trying to figure it all out.
It was bullet-proof VPN. The user had to be in a specific AD group, and the computer had to be a member of another AD group and then the VPN itself looked for a specific file and registry entry on the computer as well as current AV software.
We never could get Cisco VPN to work because it wanted people logged into Windows before it would launch - the VPN I used connected and allowed a connection to our domain before Windows login. And that meant I could run login scripts as well.

Ah the days of vpns….Other than intra organization site to site, I outlawed vpns for users like 15 years ago at least. Too much risk to the environment. I’m a big fan of ssl access to virtual apps and desktops instead.

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