It seems lately there are a lot of people unsure if they have a Max Tow package on their Gladiator. We’re here to help. (This article does have accurate information to identify the Max Tow version of the Gladiator. It is also very farcical in nature)
When I chose the KM3 as the next mud-terrain review I didn’t realize that we had never reviewed a BFGoodrich tire. I have owned several sets but had never put them to print. That changes today.
Dick Cepek was an off-road legend, a member of the off-road motorsports hall of fame and he created one of the very first off-road industries. His very first product offered was a wider and more durable off-road tire that he had built for himself.
My Wrangler makes plenty of squeaks, pops, bangs, and whirring sounds that any new one can really get on my nerves.
There are a lot of opinions on steering stabilizers. Some people swear they cure the dreaded death wobble, some don’t use one at all.
One of the best all-around tires we have tested the Yokohama GEOLANDAR X-AT is more than just a jack of all trades.
Adding performance to a Jeep Wrangler is a series of tiny steps. Each upgrade adds a small amount of positive gain until eventually, you meet your goal. Adding the Hooker Blackheart exhaust is a perfect example of small gains with other benefits. (This kit fits both 2 and 4 door JL Wranglers.)
If you need an all-around tire that gets excellent traction on 90% of the surfaces on and off-road you cannot beat an all-terrain tire. One of the latest offerings from Yokohama is the new Geolandar X-AT.
When I was a younger man, I spent countless hours keeping my vehicle spotless inside and out. Then I drove quite a few less than stellar cars that even when clean, looked like the wrong end of the junkyard.
There are 27 days until fall! To go on a bit of rant, there are also Halloween decorations up in almost every store.
One of the major hurdles to buying and using a bead lock wheel for off-road duty is price. What if you could buy the wheel in stages? Sounds impossible? Well, Dirty Life wheels may have the solution.
First things first, a big shout out to AMain Hobbies for supplying the Vanquish axles. Which makes this review a little different. We have a product from one manufacturer provide by a different entity. Let’s see how it turns out together.
As long-time readers know we always break our tire reviews into two separate parts. The on-road review and the off-road review. We do this so you can focus on what features are most important to you and to give greater detail about tire performance than one article allows for.
Bypass shocks look cool, cost a ton of money, and give you excellent mall crawler cred. But are they worth the money and what do they actually do?
Did you know that your vehicles traction control can be a benefit off road? Read more to find out how.
Mickey Thompson has been making tires since the 1960s and they helped shape not just off road but all tires for years and years to come.
In the pantheon of cool axle tech, there is one axle that stands above the rest. Literally. Portal axles give you built in lift height, better clearance under the differential and can increase available power delivered to the tires with extra gear reduction.
With the advent of the hybrid mud-terrain tires from almost every manufacturer, the Cobalt from Interco is a genuine throwback to a single purpose tire with some modern tweaks.
So last week we talked about gear ratio and how to calculate your effective gear ratio. This week I want to dive into an important and definitely more complicated calculation. How to calculate your crawl ratio.