Recent content by RandyCSVT

A few years ago I developed a squeak from my tensioner or an idler pulley, can’t recall which. Didn’t feel like working on it myself so I took it to my local pep boys and they checked it, added some grease and said come back if it squeaks again and we’ll change it. It never squeaked again and...

Because I am lifted on 34’s I ended up needing about an 8” drop hitch to get my ball height where it needed to be. I also ended up using a weight distribution hitch with sway control and it towed fine on my cross country trip. I got 10mpg which sucked, but it did fine.

I have a road trip to Moab next week and my 2016 has recently started acting up. sometimes on start up the 4lo and center diff lock will start flashing Most times shutting it off and turning it back on will make it go away. One time I had to warm it up, drive up to 25mph, put it in nuetral...

One more question. Do I need to use a weight distribution hitch? Trailer with jeep weighs about 6900 lbs.

look for my thread regarding towing my jeep with my Land Cruiser. It has some recent posts so should be easy to find in the first page or two of the 200 series cruisers group. There might be some good info for you in it as I am doing a cross country trip towing a vehicle with my LC 200 as well...

Great idea! I currently have 4 straps. My plan was to tie the axles down to the trailer tie down points (two per axle). Might be a good idea to get a few more to compress the suspension by pulling down on the front and rear bumper. My tj has a 6” long arm lift and quite a bit of suspension travel

So far I have only towed with it empty. So far leaving the red arc knob at 4 feels good. I will mess around with it when I try it loaded with the jeep

Reading the trailer tag I could add another 267lbs of weight to the trailer before it is considered at capacity (4960-4693=267). I would count the spare tire, spare mount, and tongue box as part of that remaining 267lbs since I don’t know if the tag includes them. how does towing this impact...

It is an 18’ trailer with 3500lb dexter axles with brakes on both axles. Came with a tongue box, 4 ratchet straps, and spare tire with mount. The guy I bought it from had bought it a few months ago and only used it once. The tires had zero wear and even had the little nubs on them new tire have...

Thread update: after pricing uhaul trailers I decided to just drive the jeep to TN while my wife drove the LC. It took forever and was super uncomfortable...never doing that again. I have a trip to Moab planned for this summer so I went ahead and bought a trailer. Check it out! I will post some...

I got my land cruiser ones from the last order, but the sticker backing on them was never really good. I couldn’t get them to stick well at all and they kept falling off after a few days. do you have any suggestions for better glue or stickers to stick these on with. I cleaned the weather tech...

Thanks for info. I really only want to increase visibility when reversing in areas with no lights at nights. Retrofitting some led cubes in the reflector spot in the bumper sounds the best.

Over $50 for 2 led's is nuts. Hoping the amazon ones are that good

How well do those light up what is behind you at night? The ones in my link say they are as bright as headlights, not sure how much I believe that claim, but your amazon ones have similar lumen rating.

I was surfing Facebook and came across an advertisement for diesel led super bright reverse lights. Anybody ever use something like this. I know in some cars changing bulbs to led's can be problematic and not sure if they would heat up and melt the taillight housing...