Hey guys, I got my manual 2004 rubicon not to long ago maybe 6 months now. Finally got to take her up to the hills looking at some camping spots with my friends. I am in Sacramento and we went up to ice house/loon lake and stopped at some places along the way. I have mostly only drove my Jeep on surface streets and at the most I get her going 60ish mph..
My question for you guys, is it normal for our Jeeps to be kinda sluggish on the freeway? I mean I could get going to 70-80 but it took some effort, and if I was climbing a hill.. forget about it lol. After the first few hills and fifth losing rpms like crazy I started dropping down to 4th to at least stay at 65ish. I have checked my gearing and I do have the 4.10 that was stock with the rubicon.. or at least my cover says that. I have 265/75r16 tires so I believe those are 30 1/2s
My Jeep is 95 percent stock, other than mud tires it is stock, so the weight wasn’t that much. 4 people and the Jeep. I just wanted to see if I could do anything to improve this.. if it’s the nature of it then so be it, it did fine.. but I am wondering if it can do better..
Also funny part here, so I am used to city driving.. so when going down some of the back roads to a campsite I was riding the brake, I don’t use my transmission to slow me down in the city.. idk I’m weird haha well when I got to the bottom of the hill before a little wood bridge while I was waiting for the first car to cross I noticed my brakes were smoking. I could still brake and the next part was all uphill so they cooled off.. but might need to change them now! [emoji23] anyway it was a lesson to learn.. fun day tho, I love my Jeep!
I included some pictures of my data plate on the rear cover.. kinda hard to read tho. My tire, and a pic of me at “uncle toms cabin” some random bar I found up by loon lake. It was cool tho!
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My question for you guys, is it normal for our Jeeps to be kinda sluggish on the freeway? I mean I could get going to 70-80 but it took some effort, and if I was climbing a hill.. forget about it lol. After the first few hills and fifth losing rpms like crazy I started dropping down to 4th to at least stay at 65ish. I have checked my gearing and I do have the 4.10 that was stock with the rubicon.. or at least my cover says that. I have 265/75r16 tires so I believe those are 30 1/2s
My Jeep is 95 percent stock, other than mud tires it is stock, so the weight wasn’t that much. 4 people and the Jeep. I just wanted to see if I could do anything to improve this.. if it’s the nature of it then so be it, it did fine.. but I am wondering if it can do better..
Also funny part here, so I am used to city driving.. so when going down some of the back roads to a campsite I was riding the brake, I don’t use my transmission to slow me down in the city.. idk I’m weird haha well when I got to the bottom of the hill before a little wood bridge while I was waiting for the first car to cross I noticed my brakes were smoking. I could still brake and the next part was all uphill so they cooled off.. but might need to change them now! [emoji23] anyway it was a lesson to learn.. fun day tho, I love my Jeep!
I included some pictures of my data plate on the rear cover.. kinda hard to read tho. My tire, and a pic of me at “uncle toms cabin” some random bar I found up by loon lake. It was cool tho!
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