What did you do with your Grenadier today?

[AaronS]

Also on yesterdays agenda... Apex airLYNX Rear Adjustable Disconnect.

I could have had Agile ship these to me and do the installation myself. However, John Brindell (owner) and I have had some fantastic DM conversations on FB and I have seen how much info he 1)has on the Grenadier 2)is willing to openly share, free of charge on various social media platforms. He is a HUGE supporter of the truck and the community. So... I drove the 135mi, 3.5hrs (it is Los Angeles after all) each way, to have Agile do the installation and to meet John in person.

If you live in the South West... or travel through the South West... visiting Agile is worth your time. It is an impressive operation and John will give you a tour of the whole thing. He will show you things they are working on... the challenges... the solutions... all of it.

While there I heard their customer service team on the phone offering to warranty a part. No, no... the customer did not call in asking for the part to be warrantied, someone at Agile saw a FB post showing a cracked control arm skid plate; the post talked about how the skid plate had done its job... how hard he had hit it against a rock... etc etc. Agile tracked him down, called him and offered the warranty. DAMN! That's customer service.

 

[Pat-Ard]

Added bonus: the handle stops the dumb door dongle from spinning more than a roulette wheel:

Where's that part from? It looks printed... Is the file available?

 

[FlyersFan76]

Where's that part from? It looks printed... Is the file available?

Rear Gate Interior Pull Handle

Rear Door Pull Handle with Integrated Bottle Opener Take your INEOS Grenadier to the next level with this rugged rear door pull handle, designed for both practicality and adventure. Engineered for off-road enthusiasts and Mall Crawlers alike, this handle offers a secure, ergonomic grip for easy...

grenadierworks.com

 

[OGrid]

Doing an Easter trek across the high country in SE Australia. Great weather last night, getting chilly here now with -1 dec C last night and -4 the night before.

Running Starlink off my secondary battery direct, pulling 33w on average.

Came out of Low range yesterday after a river crossing and it wouldn’t disengage. Stuck solid. Finally got it out and then the transfer case sounded like it exploded internally. From then no matter what I did no movement forward, now with a transmission warning light on. Only a restart fixed it (go figure). I’m not game to try Low again considering where I am. Will try later. High and centre diff locked works at the moment.

 

[TCMColorado]

I made a storage box for my spare wheel. Mostly out of stuff I had lying around.View attachment 7891776

Well done!

 

[OGrid]

Completed around 300km today on purely alpine 4wd tracks. From logging tracks to XX Difficult (front and rear diff locked, very steep and rocky). The vehicle is quite amazing when the tough stuff is thrown at it. It ate the tracks up today, felt like cheating!

No sign of yesterday’s issue with the transfer case, low engaged and disengaged easy. Otherwise I’d have been stuffed.

 

[Znarfgh]

Not sure I like the way a coolant hose is cable-tied to the 150A winch circuit breaker and decided to remedy this.

Out with some leftover stainless-steel sheet, the angle and die grinders and knocked up a bracket which is held in place by the circuit breaker.

Much happier with this arrangement.

 

[TexasCrane]

Put a set of Tougher seat covers on last week:

Yesterday I went over to Owl’s new location in Austin for a bull bar and Baja Designs LP4s to replace the stock offroad lights.

 

[Trialmaster]

Fitted this simple device. 10 seconds work.

 

[TK42one]

I installed a 42" Stedi 4k 80 LED Double Row Light Bar to the ACS rack using the Leitner light bar mounts.

The light bar whistled so loud starting at 40 mph then sounding like a train whistle by 60 MPH. I moved the light bar to the first load bar on the rack to get it as close to the top of the rack as possible. It works. Not sure if I'll leave it there or not. Wonder if the Baja is as bad as this one in the Leitner mounts.

Here is the new location and install. Love the channel to run the wire as hidden as possible.