I’d say that’s accurate. There’s a consistent bite point about 40% of the way up from the floor. The upward engagement from there is smoother, with a bit more resistance, and seems to correspond better to the actual movement of the clutch. Less slop, less guesswork involved.
Lack of visible changes means very little other than the obvious: it’s still a dual-friction disc with dual-mass flywheel. All four previous iterations of the clutch (and three of the flywheel) were visually identical, but I don’t have to tear them down side by side and start measuring weights...
I read the entire paragraph. And I stand by my statement. You answered your own question… “it makes little sense” to discontinue the most iconic of the three wheelbase configurations for the same platform. Particularly not while competing with Ford for share of an extremely lucrative market...
My boss’s cousin’s online best friend’s wife (who used to work at a Fiat dealership) told me no one has “confirmation” of anything. This topic has been beaten to death since 2005 when the JK was nothing but a credible rumor. Let it rest.
At 200+ pages, I don’t think anyone’s too surprised that this thread is going in circles. But at this point, from my perspective, we’ve got:
A) a solid handful of people, myself included, who went through with the recall and consider it to be an improvement to a degree that wouldn’t be possible...
It's mostly an emissions thing. The warmup cycle is quite aggressive to get the cat up to temp and the oil circulating. In an automatic, as long as you give it a few seconds, it will interrupt it as soon as you put it in gear... not so much with a manual; it's not dropping below 1500RPM before...
Correct… CSHP is the recall kit, stands for Customer Satisfaction - Held Parts. Generally speaking, those would follow a standard Mopar numerical P/N if they were an existing part or its direct supercession. That doesn’t really prove anything on its, own, but:
This seems to be the opinion of...
It’s kinda crap, honestly. The most useful feature should be the remote start, but I found it to be laggy at best (sometimes commands took 5 minutes to go through) and unreliable at worst.
My current jeep doesn’t even have remote start, I already have 3 AT&T hotspots, the health report told me...
I think you’re describing exactly why Jeep will never discontinue the two-door Wrangler. And why the existence of the Bronco continues to be a good thing for everyone. They’re not going to retire the iconic Jeep, especially while the closest they have to a competitor still offers theirs with two...
Six-speed, factory 4.88, and still on 33s. My highway mileage is… not great, my dude. But it’ll sure get out of its own way.
It has been my observation that the common factor with happy manual owners is shorter gearing.
There’s no evidence that any detuning occurs outside of warning conditions, such as the limp mode some owners have experienced when calibration values aren’t all re-entered after the latest PCM update. I have never experienced any warnings, before or after the recall, and to me it drives the...
My solution (on 4.88 / 33s) has been to just treat 1st as the granny gear it seems that it was really meant to be. I start in 2nd unless I'm on a significant incline or I'm just in absolutely no rush. For 1st, I can just walk it right into gear without using the throttle, but I'm basically...
The fact that they even offered 4.88 from the factory was huge in and of itself. It was the reason I went for the Rubicon over a Willys. It would be a closer contest if I were ordering now, with the updates to the Willys for '24... 4.10 is perfectly acceptable on 33s with a manual, but the 3.45...
Having owned the 2.0T/Auto, and currently driving a 6-speed... the manual needs shorter gearing. The optional 4.88 should be the standard for the Rubicon. It's so much more fun that I'm keeping the stock tire size longer than I had originally planned. Crawling in 1st and 4LO is hilariously slow...
I'd insist on a pair of brand new batteries prior to delivery... but I wouldn't expect any other inherent issues as long as the recall work was properly performed.