In this Round Table episode John asks the Zoom People about Routine Maintenance on their Jeeps. It doesn't always go as planned, but if you've worked on your Jeep you already understand this! #jeeptalkshow #jeep #jeeplife #jtschicchat

to make sure there's no milkshake in there, but typically just 5,000 miles religiously with the tire rotations and oil changes and then everything else pretty standard. - So when you say all, that's interesting. So fuel service, coolant flushes, things like that, do you even tackle that yourself? - Yes, yeah, I mean, I did it for many years myself. I mean, I'm not the brag of myself, but I'm very competent and capable. And I just like a lot of us don't want anybody else touching my Jeep unless they have to. I wouldn't do any body work. I'm not a paint guy. I'm not a bump and bondo guy at all, but I don't want anybody touching my Jeep except me. - Chris, you're my hero. I'm one of the lesser mechanics, so things like monoclonal flushes and fuel system clean outs. I typically take in, but I'd like to try to do it myself. It's just a big job. - The only thing I won't get into is an automatic transmission manual, maybe. It depends on the time, but now just do yourself YouTube, YouTube certified mechanics, just like Bob, right Bob? - I was about to say, speaking of YouTube certified mechanic, Bill, Bob, y'all are kind of answering together here. So what do y'all, what do you like to tackle yourself from a routine maintenance?

- No, no, no, no, just mechanical. Just mechanical. No welding, no riveting. No, I'm gonna lean on Larry for the welding and the riveting. - There you go. - All right. - I'm gonna add something back to the gladiator and spare tire thing. So as some of you know, I just got rid of my gladiator I guess about two months ago now. And I've been building up my Wrangler now. And one thing I learned there is in my gladiator, I had a 37 in the spare. It was great just bolted right here. It got bolted, but just mounted right up. No modification needed. Then I get the Wrangler and get my 37s and like, oh crap, where am I gonna put the spare? And then you have to get the reinforcement plate and all that good fun stuff back there. So just got that mounted this weekend, but. - Which reinforcement, did you go with the terra-flax or which one? - No, I'm a cheap bastard. So I go as cheap as I can for as good as I can. But I went with the Tiger, T-T-Y-G-E-R.

But when I got back home, the all trains just don't clear out enough, right? You were like everybody saying that they're great on rain, they're great on snow, they're good. It's an all around good tire. But when I go out into some of the muds on a lot of the trails I'm going, I really need a bigger lug. And so I've been running BFG KM3s or I had KM2s, but I've got BFGs KM2s or 3s on all but one of them, well, all but two of my Jeeps. So my wife's daily still running the BFG K2Os and I love those tires and they do well in general. But again, if you're going out and wheeling in much mud,

And I got a lot of life out of them, but I ran a lot of PSI on the highway, right? If I was on, if I was, you know, it's like the rest of us, so you get on a rougher road, you take some air out of it, but when you're running, you know, concrete, you know. - The tire size can play in pressure. I don't know, as I've been going up in tire size, I've been kind of going down in pressure, because I do the chalk test, although I do a little bit differently. I just spray the, spray some, with the water hose, I hit the tire, get it wet, and then kind of drive a dry patch of concrete or whatever. And you can see the pattern of your tire, and I just try to get it as flat as I can to look at that pressure and then stay with it. So for me, it's about 27, 28 from my 38s, but yeah, it's, there's not gonna be a perfect pressure that we can say on here that everybody should be running, because there's so many variables with your, - Which tire, what you drive in, what weight, all those things. Every time I hear about the chalk test, it makes me think back in high school, our high school back in the 70s actually had a rule that girls could come to school braless if they could pass the pencil test, which means they, if they could put a pencil under their breast and it would fall out, they didn't have to wear a bra, but if it fell out, if it wouldn't fall out, they had to wear a bra, if it did fall out, they didn't have to wear a bra. - So when they rode their horses up to school, because I'm assuming it was that long ago. - It wasn't that bad. But here's the real question, right? So this was actually a policy at school. Who in the hell, - Not many of us, not many of us. - Had to administer the test. That's what I wanted to mention.