Jeep Gladiator Driver Shears Off a Wheel in the Devil's Hot Tub, Moab.

[kah.mun.rah]

The steel knuckle resists stretching/bending/cracking better than the stock aluminum knuckle.

Does the Mojave Gladiator get the steel knuckles but the Rubicon Gladiator come with aluminum ones?

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[SadRobot]

Just a word of warning: larger tires and heavier wheels are dangerous!

uh oh but I have large tires and heavy wheels........and stock axles. ?

on the other hand there's no way I'm driving my jeep into the Devil's hot tub though....

 

[Remorseless]

Does the Mojave Gladiator get the steel knuckles but the Rubicon Gladiator come with aluminum ones?

Yep, Mojave gets steel, Rubicon gets aluminum.

 

[Jtphoto]

Yep, Mojave gets steel, Rubicon gets aluminum.

The Xtreme Recon also has the steel knuckles.

 

[rcadden]

What sucks is looking at the video, he *almost* made it out.

So close, and yet so far.

 

[BradyW]

I was in Moab a couple weeks ago and the big hot tub and escalator were very easy “nopes” for me. Too much risk for not enough reward. We had enough “how much am I going to damage my jeep?” excitement on The Pickle trail the day before.

 

[HK1s]

I was in Moab a couple weeks ago and the big hot tub and escalator were very easy “nopes” for me. Too much risk for not enough reward. We had enough “how much am I going to damage my jeep?” excitement on The Pickle trail the day before.

 

[Wbino]

Try again w/o the fat guys in the back.

 

[Opus]

Anyone want to ballpark how much it's gonna take to make that JT whole again... including the cost of towing his dumb ass out of the Hot Tub...?

 

[Flip]

SEND IT

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[OminousSkitter]

uh oh but I have large tires and heavy wheels........and stock axles. ?

on the other hand there's no way I'm driving my jeep into the Devil's hot tub though....

Oops, forgot to include a /s at the end of that. I found that quote from the article humorous... he makes it sound like 1) any deviation from OEM is a disaster waiting to happen, and 2) that Jeep engineers didn't intend for the Rubicon to have 35s or 37s.

You're also on Sport/manual (D35/44) axles, right?

 

[failsafe306]

I’ll be watching Matt’s Offroad Recovery for this one.

 

[Deleted member 59498]

Did those happen to be the incredibly good grip of the BFG KO2s? Did the Front End outrun the Back End?

 

[SadRobot]

You're also on Sport/manual (D35/44) axles, right?

Correct. So far so good. I figure if I ever break something I'll upgrade my diffs.

 

[Jtphoto]

That will be a hefty bill. The diff housing is likely toast, the C will be bent. Wiring for wheel speed sensor pulled out, and brake lines and tierods all mangled. Gonna be a nightmare to sort that all out.

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