It would be interesting to know who does their axle conversions.October we were down to Gatlinburg and took 1 of those Pink Jeep Tours. I was talking with our guide about how good the fleet does and he stated they routinely get 250,000 miles from the JK 3.6 fleet.
The Jeep for our tour was built up to haul about 10 people and had very oversized tires and 8 bolt axles so probably 1 ton axles. Each Jeep probably averages 4 tours per day hauling people around for about 2 hours and finishes up in a private off-road park on each tour. The Jeep is typically driven like its stolen as well.
Here is a pic of the Jeep we were in. For reference my wife is 5 foot
I had a Camaro SS with cylinder deactivation and it was so smooth I never knew when it was doing it.
Nice! Ram hasn't figured that out
My 08 ran 5.38 gears with the 4spd auto and 37” Pitbulls and had zero transmission issues for the whole 10 years I had it which as stated 321,000 when traded in. I was proactive however back in 2008 and put an auxiliary trans cooler on it as it was noted that they did run hot due to apparent insufficient cooling through the rad. This motor was not babied. It ran as a DD and wheeled in temps from 100f to -40f for the 10years I had it and apparently it’s still on the road with another owner.
D60 Axle swaps are not rocket science. There are plenty of companies out there that provide fully bolt in D60 units that anyone can do it in their own home shop.
I tried to break a 2.0 in a rental with 65K on the clock (being a rental, those 65K miles were harder than personal car). Had it for 58 days and beat the ever-living dog snot out of it. I mean I beat it, redlined it often. That turbo is fun on the higher RPMs and it took whatever I threw at it. Honestly really impressed me. I think the question is, how far will the turbo take you over 100K miles?
That's pretty cool.
I only know of two people who cooked the 3.6L and both were extremely hard on them. The one made it to 90k and got the tick of death.
This was right when my buddies got that tick as well. You should jump on this asap to see if you can save it. He couldn't so it's Hemi time.
Both 2018 or 2019 JLs.
