New Jeep

Hey guys, I'm from Canyon Lake and I go to school at UTSA. I just got my first jeep about a month ago and loving every single day of it! Oh and guess who decided to show up today? UPS! he dropped off 2.5" teraflex coil kit. Now I can finally put these bad boys on!
Excited to see how it's going to look like!!

Hey, I know you! Glad you are here. I pointed this feller here from the new JKFreaks.com forum. If any of you decide to check it out, just tell them Hook-em sent ya.

As he mentioned, he's got this new rig with these fancy tires and a 2.5" lift. What do you all say we get a Jeep Nation installation party in the plans and help this guy out? Oh, he didn't mention his C-Gussets but he has some of them too.



Any takers? If so, I throw a thread up for planning purposes.

Hello and Welcome!

Welcome! What's your name?

How do you like the Pentastar V6? What gearing do you have now, and have you considered going deeper for the larger tires?

Thanks guys, I'm James. The pentastar is awesome! It's definitely more peppier than 2011 I test drove. It has 3.73 gearing, and as of right now I have no plans on regearing. I saw a gearing chart on another forum for the 2012's, and it looks like it shouldn't be a problem.

Welcome to the forum. Used to live in Canyon Lake myself, many years ago.
Get all that shit put on ASAP and join us for the Canyons trip on the 25th.

Hell yeah I'll come join y'all. I got plenty of free time haha I just found a dude in austin who can install my lift, gussets, and do an alignment for $300! Is that good?

That's alright. But it's not free. I know there are some other people that need stuff installed. Heck, I'm gonna be one of them too. I think Longarm has the same lift as you and he wants to install it. We really shoud have an installation party. I'm gonna post a thread for one after the March 10th BBQ event for Joe.

Nice start man! Welcome!

welcome

Welcome

A wet dream! lol Welcome to the club. What are you studying?

Thanks! Criminal Justice. I want to get into border patrol.

I got my jeep lifted now

Oh, and I take back what I said about gears haha. Thinking about going with 4.56's. Anybody know a shop that can install gears for cheap?

Looks great. Really jealous of your tires...how about we swap (I have 33" KM2s) so you don't have to worry about re-gearing!!??!!

thanks! but no thanks haha

got my front door windows tinted today and decided switch out my battery (DieHard advance gold AMG) because my headlights would start dimming when I had my radio cranked up.

Welcome to the club, Talk to Marcus at river city offroad and he will hook you up with some gears. Also, go 4.88, you will not regret that with 35's and an automatic. One more thing, AEV make a procal that will reprogram your transmission so you don't go into limp mode. I heard that is a problem in all of the new Jeeps.

Happy trails and hope to see you in March at longs.

Tyler.

If you're running 35's with an automatic you WANT to run 5.13's if you are running a manual run 4.88's you can get the gears from Marcus at Rivercity Off Road. Go with Superior gears, they are a lot less of a headache to install. They won't require a complete re-shimming.

Keep in mind he has the 3.6L, gearing mat differ from the 3.8s.

IntenseBlueSwamper wrote:

Keep in mind he has the 3.6L, gearing mat differ from the 3.8s.

Good point. I'd be willing to bet he doesn't need the lower gears like us poor 3.8L runners do.

While we are on the subject of lifts for a 2012, did you have to do anything with your exhaust crossover tube or you tcase skid. I've heard there can be problems with those and the front drive shaft. You might want to take a look to see if you are close to those items.

I forgot it's a 2012. I found a chart on another forum and with 35's I probably would run 4.30's or 4.56'sto get back to stock and maybe 4.88's if you want a good rock crawling gear.

I had to use TF exhaust spacers. And I guess I overreacted about the gears. It's not that bad actually, I just have to step on it a lil bit more haha. Getting about 18 mpg now. And yes I already have a procal