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

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[jebiruph]

You're welcome. Many folks have helped me immensely with tips and charts and figures......
It looked like you had it figured. That's interesting on the hitch, though - seems different than I'd have "guessed" the connection would be. I'd think raising up the front would transfer a small bit of weight back (not much, just thinking aloud so to speak) and lowering the front would allow weight above center to be felt more forward.

I just wish more Jeep people lived in this area - it's pretty boring.
Can't even get people together for our cars here. Iowans are different that way. Try to get clubs going, everyone is all in until it comes time to make the talk action, then nothing.
And no one around here really knows these things - you see a TON of Wranglers and other Jeeps (no JTs though) and you see some with mods, but no one really knows what they are doing, dealers don't know squat, barely even how to fix stock Jeeps. Only ONE dealer in all of our area does any mods at all and the 4x4 shops are all about monster trucks ( all 2 of them)

I frequently see other JTs here in the big city.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Man, I love Discount Tire. I have bought my last 5 or 6 sets of wheels and tires from them. I shop for what I want online - print off the best prices....bring it to them and let them beat it with free lifetime rotation and balance. If I EVER have a vibration.....even if it was just balanced out....I bring it back in. I have nothing but good things to say for them here. But .... all the same I had a horrible experience at Tires Plus working on my LJ suspension and wouldn't go there to save my life....so I get it!

Been a while since I went to a tire shop - maybe time has passed and try them anew.
I had a shock a while back - was looking for new tires for my 70, in 14's which even then weren't easy to find, especially in RWL! I shopped around, and either got a run-around, or prices almost past Jupiter, or some sort of mess with sizes, whatever. I'd had decent luck with some other stuff at a local Chevy dealer and just for kicks I walked back to their parts guy, handed him a note (no, not asking for all the cash - it had my needed size, preferred brand and so on). He nodded - yeah, we can do that. I asked for prices - he did some digging, made a couple of calls while I waited and told me he could have them there tomorrow and the price - beat all of the other tire shops, tires-r-us, cheapest-tires-on-earth, they beat them all, some big, some by just a few bucks.
I took the car in the next day and they mounted the tires without destroying the trim rings (don't even want to try to find those) and did an alignment, too (won't install new tires without an alignment). A Chevy dealer of all things.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

What did I do to......... well, something I was going to do a week ago, kept forgetting, got down with more sinus stuff, didn't feel like even walking to the garage for pictures, but today stopped putting it off -
I found the rattle that my JT had since it was serviced last week.......... I found the rattle when I got out a couple of days later and my foot hit something by the left kick panel - something that shouldn't be there.

I sent the service guy a text with a pic, and my sales guy with these pics and asked him to pass them along.
The service writer responded "looks like the GPS wire, just needs to be put back up in the bracket".
But that's a lot of cable to stuff up there - surely all of that wasn't hanging down there on that panel all of these months and just the end in the bracket, wires still hanging down?
That's an edge connector - why would a GPS wire and connector be in a bracket for fast access at the kick panel?
Naw - looks more like a diagnostic connector. And all that wire, want to figure where that was stuffed. I can stick the connector back in the bracket but why would it pop out when they worked on it, and where did all that cable go originally.

So that's what I did, take three pics and contacted the dealership. HA

 

[Mopar King]

Wilwood brakes and Airlift airbags installed today.

Also updated my fender decals from Under the Sun junk (distorted print and cheap vinyl) to this 2 pc set from Pixie Decals.

 

[Mopar King]

What did I do to......... well, something I was going to do a week ago, kept forgetting, got down with more sinus stuff, didn't feel like even walking to the garage for pictures, but today stopped putting it off -
I found the rattle that my JT had since it was serviced last week.......... I found the rattle when I got out a couple of days later and my foot hit something by the left kick panel - something that shouldn't be there.

I sent the service guy a text with a pic, and my sales guy with these pics and asked him to pass them along.
The service writer responded "looks like the GPS wire, just needs to be put back up in the bracket".
But that's a lot of cable to stuff up there - surely all of that wasn't hanging down there on that panel all of these months and just the end in the bracket, wires still hanging down?
That's an edge connector - why would a GPS wire and connector be in a bracket for fast access at the kick panel?
Naw - looks more like a diagnostic connector. And all that wire, want to figure where that was stuffed. I can stick the connector back in the bracket but why would it pop out when they worked on it, and where did all that cable go originally.

So that's what I did, take three pics and contacted the dealership. HA

Clean your rig man.....looks pitiful

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Clean your rig man.....looks pitiful

Please see -

https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/...eck-is-this-mystery-device.33321/#post-540041

And tell me - does YOUR JT have this?
It's really bothering me now that I have made the connection to the dealership comment "probably the GPS wire......... WHAT GPS WIRE? And why would it be pigtailed in like that?
I figured the uconnect GPS would be up inside the dash, not hung on like a DIY install.

 

[BLK HOLE]

Ok to be clearer. This is what I added. The goal was to recenter the axle. And lift the front a little more due to the winch and bumper installing tonight.

Jeep already has a MOPAR lift with 3/4” spacers front and rear.

Added -
Synergy front track bar.
Skyjacker rear track bar. (Sort of cheaped out a little here because it’s such simple part)
Teraflex 1.5” spacer kit. (Replacing the 3/4” front spacer)
Skyjacker longer sway bar links. (After the TF spacers it was no longer positioned right)

Comparison pic of the 3/4 vs 1.5 spacers too (they’re incorrectly stacked in the pic). Also one from stock with 37s, first lift and now the new getup. Bottom to top.

Got my turning radius back, was very happy about that. Axles are perfectly centered now.

Finished the job.

 

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[Jdyowa]

Installed my hothead headliners but managed to scratch the Jeep in the process of putting the rear hardtop by myself. There are several videos on YouTube showing one person removal but not a one person put back.

Anyways it’s installed, and I used rubbing compound to remove the scratch. I’m never messing with the hardtop again unless I have an assist.

Do it in reverse

 

[Alabama Mud Machine]

Wilwood brakes and Airlift airbags installed today.

Also updated my fender decals from Under the Sun junk (distorted print and cheap vinyl) to this 2 pc set from Pixie Decals.

Nice to see another EVO guy on here. Is that an Evo 2.5" lift, or just the track bar? I'm curious to know how well the Airlift 1000 bags work with the extra lift height over stock... I've considered adding some to mine incase I get another boat, which will be close to 5,500 lbs. dry weight, so if I tow, I hate the rear squat, because the truck handles like shit when that happens.

 

[Mopar King]

Nice to see another EVO guy on here. Is that an Evo 2.5" lift, or just the track bar? I'm curious to know how well the Airlift 1000 bags work with the extra lift height over stock... I've considered adding some to mine incase I get another boat, which will be close to 5,500 lbs. dry weight, so if I tow, I hate the rear squat, because the truck handles like shit when that happens.

Just the EVO rear track bar but its quality stuff. The lift is Mopar.
Yeah, I will let you know tomorrow. My boat is 4k lbs. There isnt much space between the contact points and top/bottom of the bags. Currently at 14 PSI with a max of 35 PSI.

 

[Alabama Mud Machine]

Just the EVO rear track bar but its quality stuff. The lift is Mopar.
Yeah, I will let you know tomorrow. My boat is 4k lbs. There isnt much space between the contact points and top/bottom of the bags. Currently at 14 PSI with a max of 35 PSI.

Awesome! 2" vs. 2.5" isn't going to make a difference, if I had to guess. I'll be running the EVO 2.5" Enforcer Stage 2 Plus lift, as soon as I get the time and money to pay Elite Offroad to remove my spacer setup, and toss my Evo stuff in there. If I still had my 50x50 shop with my rotary lift and all my tools, I'd have swapped it out LONG ago.

Also, what was the part # of that brake kit... If I ever have to replace pads, and rotors, might as well drop the coin on a better setup for towing.

 

[Mopar King]

Awesome! 2" vs. 2.5" isn't going to make a difference, if I had to guess. I'll be running the EVO 2.5" Enforcer Stage 2 Plus lift, as soon as I get the time and money to pay Elite Offroad to remove my spacer setup, and toss my Evo stuff in there. If I still had my 50x50 shop with my rotary lift and all my tools, I'd have swapped it out LONG ago.

Also, what was the part # of that brake kit... If I ever have to replace pads, and rotors, might as well drop the coin on a better setup for towing.

How much will that lift set you back?

Ill PM you with part numbers. Its seperate for each the front and rear set. I gotta pull up my Jegs account and see what the part #s were.

 

[Alabama Mud Machine]

How much will that lift set you back?

Ill PM you with part numbers. Its seperate for each the front and rear set. I gotta pull up my Jegs account and see what the part #s were.

Cool. Thanks!

It's not as bad as one would think... Being that I have a Rubicon, I'm keeping the stock Fox shocks, and just running shock extension brackets. That will save some money, as well.

https://www.northridge4x4.com/part/...acturing-2-5in-enforcer-lift-kit-stage-2-plus

Labor won't be bad... I think they told be about $500 for labor getting everything installed, adjusted, and 100% dialed-in, and $600 (total) if I have them do a digital (machine) 4-wheel alignment afterwards. Which I might as well spring for. At that point, what's $100...And it's guaranteed if something wears funny or messes up. Haha

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