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Use those hard plastic furniture moving sliders?

This reminds me of my first cross-country move. My dad worked in a grocery store and got me about 20 boxes from frozen turkeys, because they were really heavy duty. I drove from the northeast into the so-cal desert in June. Upon arrival I found that all the glue in the boxes had melted and I...

To a similar point, you can make sure you have an auxiliary transmission cooler dumping heat elsewhere, not only the cooling lines through the radiator.

check everything in your steering linkages. My tie rod ends on my 2014 went bad and had no visual indicators until the rig was suspended in the air and someone pried on them with a bar, then the movement was dramatic. It seemed that with the weight Was enough to create friction to hold them in...

I realized the same thing shortly after welding! Im pretty sure that V2 of the trailer will be a scratch build integrating stabilizers into the frame itself, then I can hit optimum angles and still install within the frame rails! I had 3 people up in the tent last night with the kids playing...

Weeks further on, my project is wrapping up. I reached that magical point on the roof basket when a guys says “f-it”. And just sprays the paint. At this point I’m really quite proud of 20 tube bends in 1” 0.083 steel that all came out properly (enough). I only trashed 2. Immediately upon...

Complete guesses here, but I’m guessing the breaking rating would be in a single straight-line pull. You could always double up the saver straps, it wouldn’t exactly double the rating because you don’t have lab conditions, but it would spread the load and help.

What is the mode of failure you are seeing? Leaks? Corrosion? Worn out? I don’t have to deal with winter, but I have noticed that my AEV Bilsteins leak after about 25-35k miles on my JKU. They leak oil long before they fail to damp oscillation, and I’ve replaced a few (maybe 5?) “good...

It is both overthinking and unpreventable. No matter how you orient your tent, you will someday find and prefer to stay at the one place where that orientation conflicts with trees, trail layout, cliff, river, snowbank, alligator pit, etc... I have always had the soft shell folders. I prefer...

In modern life, anything that happened before your current phone has faded into legend... ;) I’ve been meaning to download the old phone in the drawer. Maybe I’ll do that tonight.

I had 2 Tepui Ayers on a JKU when I started out. One opened forward over the hood, I made some braces down to the front bumper. It was, to say the least... really loud. And my wife was, to say the least... really not happy. Thus I dropped back to one, then a single bigger one, and now a...

Thanks for the info all! After waiting for the butt nuggets at Microsoft office o push yet another update down to my Auto Enginuity laptop before they will let me use it, I am definitely ready to move on to something more simple.

For a lot of years I’ve used Auto Enginuity, as I needed the enhanced ford coverage for my F250. That truck is now sold, and my JK is hitting the age where scan tool coverage is something I need again. I could re-up the Auto Enginuity, but Inthink it is time to see what else is out there and...

To keep them from rattling loose you will have to torque into that 100 ft-lb range. The tension on that bolt is pretty high. You might see some tubes deform. I would include some thread locker or Nylock nut because you probably will end up under torque on some bolts.

The last time I had something galvanized it was about $300 for a 61 Land Rover chassis about 10 years ago. I think I spent $200 more on sand blasting before dipping. If you aren’t designed to dip, you can’t or won’t galvanize successfully. Closed in tubes typically can’t be dipped because...

Better to leave the holes open big enough to drain, save on the tapping, bolts, etc... I would use bigger holes, 1/2 or 3/4. It is virtually possible to prevent dust from getting in and becoming mud then rust, but relatively easy to make openings big enough to allow pressure washing out and...

What size were your bolts? Are they through-bolts with nuts? On the whole they look huge, I’m guessing you can’t torque them effectively without crushing the tubes unless you have sleeves all over too.

My immediate reaction is that without the right charging equipment, monitoring equipment, and software you are just pre-loading your eventual roadside fire, but your mileage might vary. Aren’t they worth quite a bit on the secondary market? I seem to recall an article about repurposing...

The best advantage I’ve found to my AEV 2.5 kit is the freakish front end dive under emergency braking went away. I bought it used, so I don’t know if it was the SC or RS, but the rear shocks leaked after 25k miles and got replaced already. I ended up with airbags in the rear springs, not so...

When I’ve gotten into weight / balance problems on long trips I’ve been known to move stuff around on the truck or trailer or, in one case, I bought a 10 bags of concrete at Home Depot for ballast and returned it at the other end of the trip. Thanks Home Depot!