Paladin_JTR
Well-Known Member
- First Name
- Jeff
- Joined
- Dec 27, 2019
- Threads
- 11
- Messages
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- Location
- Chesapeake, VA
- Vehicle(s)
- 2020 Jeep Gladiator, 2018 JLUR
- Thread starter
- #1
I have only ever owned manual transmissions in all my Wranglers for 20 years and now my new Gladiator with a 6 speed. I personally disagree with various reviews about it being "horrible"....of course I have bias sure, but I also know that a lot of those "bad" reviews are from editorials where the folks are trying to compare it to their normal reviews which are not trucks, much less off road vehicles with talk about "long throws" similar to driving a bus or something so they clearly never owned a CJ/YJ/TJ/LJ/JK. My TJ specifically and JK were much longer throws than the newer 6 speed in the JL/JT. I do have one complaint and that is first gear is extremely short...I have no experience with this new 6 speed in anything other than a Rubi so maybe the 4.10s come in to play specifically for the first gear being so short but regardless I am very happy with it. You do have to wind it up a bit further than previous Jeeps it seems but that is an easy learning curve IMO. Back to the subject topic though, please tell me I am not the only one who has stalled this new 6 speed a few times shortly after owning it!
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