What did you do TO your Jeep JL today?

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It has 33,000 miles on it. I put 37s on it the day after I bought it. It has been wheeled all over the country and has pulled a camper for over 10,000 miles. It has done 26 Jeep badge of Honor trails and is not a daily driver. 90% of the miles were Jeep wheeling related miles. I just got back from a 5734 mile wheeling trip that included 8 days in Moab, and the Rubicon Trail.
Completely stock Rubicon axles?

Any other issues over those 33,000 trail miles?

They held up amazingly well!
 

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Completely stock Rubicon axles?

Any other issues over those 33,000 trail miles?

They held up amazingly well!

It has been relatively trouble free. I think my wife was a little hard on the skinny pedal. I did have the sensor go bad on the locker. This is a well known issue and a valve cover gasket leak and that is it. It has drove and ran great. I am very happy with it.

Yes the axles were stock. I had already planed on upgrading them in my build. So it was not a big deal. I had wheeled it 11 weekends in a row and 16 days of hard driving and wheeling out west. Think 12 to 16 hour days.....

It still looks amazing. Just won a best in class at a car show a couple weeks ago.
 

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It has 33,000 miles on it. I put 37s on it the day after I bought it. It has been wheeled all over the country and has pulled a camper for over 10,000 miles. It has done 26 Jeep badge of Honor trails and is not a daily driver. 90% of the miles were Jeep wheeling related miles. I just got back from a 5734 mile wheeling trip that included 8 days in Moab, and the Rubicon Trail.
...which helps confirm what i need to buy before going out west! Upgrades for you! :rock:
 

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It has 33,000 miles on it. I put 37s on it the day after I bought it. It has been wheeled all over the country and has pulled a camper for over 10,000 miles. It has done 26 Jeep badge of Honor trails and is not a daily driver. 90% of the miles were Jeep wheeling related miles. I just got back from a 5734 mile wheeling trip that included 8 days in Moab, and the Rubicon Trail.
So its mostly a mall crawler? hahahahaha
 

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...which helps confirm what i need to buy before going out west! Upgrades for you! :rock:
While my Jeep drove excellent, I did upgrade all the steering components prior to going out with the Yeti Steersmarts stuff.

For all of it. I probably drove the 2500+ miles home towing a camper with the axle like that.
 

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Curious... what is the little bluish color thing sticking out of the circular vent closet to your radio?
It’s an air freshener we got free from a Carvana setup at the Texas motor speedway last year. Not my proudest mod. ;)
 

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I used to run a 24" AntennaX antenna on both my 2009 and 2012 JK's, but I forgot to remove it when I sold my 2012 JK :facepalm:

It's impossible to find the 24" AntennaX antenna now, so I went with the next best option, a 31" black spring steel antenna from AntennaMastsRus/The Antenna Source.

No impact whatsoever on radio reception and it looks much better than the stock 35" stainless antenna.

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