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

[ShadowsPapa]

Not really to the Gladiator specifically but FOR it - the hitch pin I've used for years with my other vehicles, more recently, the Chevy truck I had, was looking crappy - a bit of rust, the zinc plating was partly worn off the pin was rusty and hard to get in and out of the hole, the washer was messy looking so I cleaned and nickel plated it. I was all set up doing some plating for customers, and ramping up for plating some wiper motor parts (zinc mostly) and since I had the plating rectifier going and stuff just generally set up, I did these three pieces in nickel. I couldn't stand the thought of that rusty marked up looking thing in the Jeep's nice clean shiny receiver.
I decided to do nickel instead of zinc as it should keep the shine a bit longer.
I've had this thing for at least three trucks worth of time.

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[SWAMP THING]

My fingernails. Took awhile, and some frustration.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

3M makes a decal remover that works well on original factory car paints (not on cars that have been touched up or repainted with old-school paint) It's made for removing automotive decals.
A slight bit of heat also makes them easier.

 

[Mark Doiron]

Used the FlashCal to reprogram tire pressure sensors and speedometer for the new 35s. Took for a test run using Torque Pro running on my Nexus 7 to readout the GPS speed and it matched perfectly with the Jeep speedo. Tire ground to shoulder height was 33", so that's what I used for perfect results.

 

[KDR83]

Bumper installed .

Did you reuse the factory skid plate?

 

[techteacher]

Hard Rock Rails (angled up) installed and a couple weeks ago got the LoD signature series mid width on.

 

[Jeep Rigg]

Finally Got'em! Now its mine. And I will love it, and pet it, and hug it and.......

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Been trying to think of a decent plate for mine - Iowa allows 7 characters, I think they stopped allowing a 0 though as I had 70JAVLN for the car I sold and I when I looked to see about doing another plate with a 0 they didn't allow it. I guess 0 and O look too much alike?
Anyway, gonna have to brainstorm on this a while.

Don't tell me that's salt brine stuff under that plate? Hope not.

 

[Jeep Rigg]

Been trying to think of a decent plate for mine - Iowa allows 7 characters, I think they stopped allowing a 0 though as I had 70JAVLN for the car I sold and I when I looked to see about doing another plate with a 0 they didn't allow it. I guess 0 and O look too much alike?
Anyway, gonna have to brainstorm on this a while.

Don't tell me that's salt brine stuff under that plate? Hope not.

Oh you know it. Just a little Illinois love!

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Oh you know it. Just a little Illinois love!

I suspect Illinois and Iowa share brine recipes - looks like it. That stuff will eat our vehicle alive. You likely had the same early snow and fun stuff we did.

 

[Resqman]

Did you reuse the factory skid plate?

yes works perfect with the factory skid plate

 

[Resqman]

Which bumper is this?

RR Arcus

 

[steffen707]

Tail light is sweet. Any idea if that's legal to do?

I think I'm finished with my decal addiction. Thanks again to Don @pixeldecals for the attention to detail on the decals made from pictures of my JT.

 

[steffen707]

Tail light is sweet. Any idea if that's legal to do?

I think I'm finished with my decal addiction. Thanks again to Don @pixeldecals for the attention to detail on the decals made from pictures of my JT.

 

[jprcr4]

Rhino lined bed and rockers and i will reinstall factory rock rails

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