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Most bumpers on JKs can accept a winch. I would suggest looking at the OEM steel bumpers the Rubicon special editions like the Hard Rock, Recon, 10th Anniversary, and X editions come with. The end caps can be removed with the right Torx drivers in about five to ten minutes. At the same time...

Ah, but 100,000 miles of rock chips would be a good thing in many minds.

Just out of curiousity, if the transmission is an automatic, something might have triggered the "limp home" mode. In limp mode the transimission stick in second, but Park, Neutral and Reverse should still work. Limp mode can be turned oiff according to the manual as follows: "In the event of...

Thanks for the update. An impressive job.

Broken first, fixed afterward. There's a story that after the end of WW II, a soldier in Paris built a working Jeep out of parts from wrecked or non-functioning Jeeps. He had to chain it up to keep it from being "borrowed."

Just take it out on a trail a couple of times. Pretty is temporary. So is finish. Remember Jeeps were invented to be broken.

There you go then. Thanks for letting us know.

First, look up exactly what coolant type your engine requires. Do not mix types!!! Doing so creates a gel (I guess that's what you would call it) that will thoroughly stodge up your system and engine. There are two types and HOAT and OAT. Do not blend them, or mix them with water unless...

That is certainly what that looks like. The geometry of the leak looks like it developed after the vehicle was parked, may just after a trip while the engine was still hot. If that's the reservoir on the right, then it looks like your coolant is low too.

If it is a real death wobble, the typical causes are loose fittings in the suspension. According to some sources the commonest cause is a loose attachment of the lower end of the track bar to the axle. The attachment there can be just lose - under-torqued, or it could be worn in several ways...

WIth no recovery it sounds like you were essentially driving without a stabilizer anyway.

The stabilizer allows you to relax a little more when on the highway. It increases the "reliability" of steering effects by dampening the wheels' response to paving irregularities. If you hit a pothole for instance, you'll often feel the steering wheel push left or right depending on how the...

The centercaps on the Saltas are metal. They would ding up too. But we are driving off road, so "pretty" is mostly temporary.

My 2016 Rubicon had AEV Saltas on it when I got it. They look good, though the black coating is prone to dings if you get too cozy to rocks beside the trail. They also have recessed stems, which is also good around rocks and brush. They're spendy though. The ones on mine were added by a...

Western Nevada, Pine Grove Hills, near the Wovoka WIlderness. The day before smoke from the Mosquito fire made things miserable, but over night things cleared out.

Took a fairly short overnight jaunt. Picked up a little pin striping. Beautiful weather at 8,000 feet.

The 3.8 has a bit of a reputation regarding oil. The ticking though sounds like a rocker bearing might be at the end of its life. You might take a stethoscope and listen along the valve cover and see if you can locate where it's loudest. If you can, then you need to decide who replaces the...

California isn't particularly difficult. The test looks at outputs of a couple of gases (CO, and NO2 - and maybe a sulfur compound???) and whether you are leaking gas fumes from the gas tank (new gas cap indicated). CO is an indication of incomplete combustion, so you don't want any in your...

I never found any solution. There is a stretch on US 97 south of Klamath Falls which can get so bad at certain times of the year that you stop every couple of miles. Actually a visibility issue after two hours is not bad as far as driving through agricultural regions goes. Maybe carry an...

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