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    Anyone ditched a Max Coupler in favor of a pintle?

    Late here but I went from the pintle w/ surge brakes on my m101a3 to a Max Coupler. I did not hate the original pintle/lunette by itself. The surge brakes on the other hand were terrible on technical trails. i had decided dump that set up and try swapping it to a fixed ring lunette using the...
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    Hinge/tailgate weight capacity on a '12 JKU?

    I have never ‘seen’ a failure but for this exact reason is why I have not gone this route With one additional worry along the same line. That being what happens when you end up in a precarious spot where the spare is wedged up against the ground or a tree or something? Sounds extreme but easy to...
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    Dual battery maintainer with ‘smart’ isolator and daily driving.

    @DiploStrat I was originally going to use a PAC-500 to isolate my winch from the batteries. As the trigger I was going to run a dash mounted Contura switch that would also enable the dash mounted winch controls (Momentary on-off-on Contura style). The Contura winch override switch would have a...
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    Dual battery maintainer with ‘smart’ isolator and daily driving.

    @DaveInDenver the engine off winching absolutely is last resort and certainly not recommended but I have had to use this a few times over the years luckily always someone else and my rig was there to jumpstart it after the recovery. To be specific: operating the winch when the engine is at an...
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    Dual battery maintainer with ‘smart’ isolator and daily driving.

    I got the ”opportunity“ to put 9 solid hours of alternator charging into the starter battery and about 3 with the aux in the loop. charging voltage broadcasted through the OB2 port was a constant 14.5-14.8 with the majority of it setting right in between. Will see tomorrow morning what they...
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    Dual battery maintainer with ‘smart’ isolator and daily driving.

    im still green on all this but that looks like a pretty nice option. Was looking at the IP67 version and still trying to figure out best size with my setup but the tune-ability of this looks like it should work well with the Odyssey batteries. too bad it’s not on the list of their approved...
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    Dual battery maintainer with ‘smart’ isolator and daily driving.

    In searching every which way I can on this issue/topic I found this thread that on post #16 shows a simple way to alter/increase the alternator charging voltage. I really didn’t want to mess with this for the same reasons @DaveInDenver stated but this may be the best step in solving my starter...
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    Dual battery maintainer with ‘smart’ isolator and daily driving.

    4000lbs of goat: Good info thank you. This is getting more difficult to solve. Hoping I could run an on board charger so I could just plug it in like a block heater seems to be a challenge, will need to broaden my search. My immediate issue is bringing the starter battery to a full charge...
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    Dual battery maintainer with ‘smart’ isolator and daily driving.

    Thank you for the detailed replies. I have a lot to read and re-read and research. I am attempting to keep this simple but it appears that is not going to be the case at least initially while I figure this out. I agree with DaveinDenver that the Odyssey batteries being the issue. I ran for a...
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    Dual battery maintainer with ‘smart’ isolator and daily driving.

    Hello, after much overthought the last year on how to set up a dual battery setup in my 09 JKU I stumbled across a fantastic deal on a pair of brand new Odyssey G34 PC1500s and a Genesis JK dual battery setup. For those that dislike this setup due to the price that is not a factor here to say...
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    AEV 3.5” lift on 37s - 2015 JKUR

    not my experience. Not going to get long life out of your front end with that setup and IMO will not drive as well both at speed and slow trail maneuvering. AEV for example sells wheels with a 5.25” BS to run with their lifts and run 37s.
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    AEV 3.5” lift on 37s - 2015 JKUR

    For what you are looking for the AEV 3.5 and 37s is a perfect set up. My only other recommendation is to keep your wheel back space very close to 5” +/-.25 max. This will get those 37s to fit without rubbing, best scrub radius which makes the front end last a lot longer and drive better. This...
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    Jku Engine Swap options

    4.88s are still a bit high for a 3.8/auto JKU on 37s IMO I ran 5.38s to get it reasonably acceptable. it lasted 207k that way before the tranny let go but the engine was absolutely tired as well. I am still running the same 5.38s/37s with the 5.7 Hemi and it works great. I get 16mpg on road...
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    Timbren

    Good to know and maybe Timbren will confirm. It’s been a while since I studied the drawings on their site so may have it wrong.
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    Timbren

    Timbren 3500HD uses the 3500 suspension with the 5200lb spindles. This is what I plan to do if I go the Timbren route.
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