Sand bags in the trunk, sand bags in a hitch mounted carrier. I'd expect 2-300 lbs to be enough.
Plow counterweight ideas?
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alittleoff
TJ Addict
I recently installed a Meyer plow to my other TJ. And put 8, 8x16 blocks as close to the tailgate as I could and strapped them down with a short 2" ratchet strap. Now just waiting for it to snow enough to plow. I'll only be doing mine and the neighbors driveway and our access road.
Tire chains make a big difference too. Although they can leave marks on surfaces not covered by snow. When I was a kid in Wi my Dad did commercial accounts. We had a 72 Ford 250 Hi-Boy to push, a International tractor with a loaded to stack the snow and a Gravely industrial snow blower for sidewalks and tight places. He used the truck and I stacked. He had heat and I didn’t. We’d get up at 2am and start plowing and clear snow until I had to go to school. What child labor laws?
Simple math (Salt spreader + tj = no more tj)
I don't use counter weights and I don't have a problem pushing snow around. Your plow is huge compared to mine though.
WestCoastDan
TJ Addict
I'd go with that rear hitch rack, and I would push it into the receiver as far as i could get it to go, without interfering w/ the spare.
Then drill a new hole for the hitch pin.
Then I would get a few plastic milk crates and fill them up with whatever I could find to make them heavy, and strap them on the rack.
Unless you happen to have an old engine block laying around...
Then drill a new hole for the hitch pin.
Then I would get a few plastic milk crates and fill them up with whatever I could find to make them heavy, and strap them on the rack.
Unless you happen to have an old engine block laying around...
Yes they can. I had an old FJ 40 with 4 tire chains that was unstoppable. Used to drive through snow banks and snow filled ditches all the time.
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I get that alot
Vtx531
TJ Addict
Ya the max payload of a TJ is only about 800-something pounds TOTAL, same as a car, but people act like it's a HD pickup and add heavy items (bumpers, winch, rock rails, snowplow, tools, etc). Been there, done that, I didn't know any better at the time.
Citing OEM specs for aftermarket modified Jeeps?
Factory suspension specs go out the window with aftermarket springs , suspensions, and airbags
Factory suspension specs go out the window with aftermarket springs , suspensions, and airbags
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A few years ago, I loaded about 1000lbs of flag stone into the back of the Jeep and slowly drove across town. I arrived at this weight estimate by calculating the roughly 4" loss of rear ride height with the spring rate. It was not a pleasant drive.
If only you understood suspension tuning with spring rates, you could have avoided that situation. Perhaps those HD OMEs people keep talking about might have come in very handy, you know?
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If only you understood suspension tuning with spring rates, you could have avoided that situation. Perhaps those HD OMEs people keep talking about might have come in very handy, you the?
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I did crank up the low speed adjusters I had on the rear shocks at the time. All I can surmise is that the slow and cautious drive was less bad than it could have been with the remaining 2ish" of up travel.
What catches my attention with this assertion that factory specs go out the window with aftermarket parts is that mine has long been (arguably) better set up in many aspects to carry heavier than factory specified loads. But having done it more than a couple times, I can't ever recommend it.
I say this knowing that my Jeep as it sits today is about 4400lbs, where it came to me at about 3890lbs stock. Yet I have built it to drive and handle far better than it ever did when it was new. At the same time, it really should not be loaded to with an additional 800+lbs with anything resembling regularity.
All I know is that I do not know what my Jeep's current cargo capacity is. But it certainly is a lot of fun to drive fast and hard.
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You can increase how well it handles the payload but you can’t increase your payload/GVWR.
Any extra weight in stronger components reduces your payload. GVWR stays the same.
Any extra weight in stronger components reduces your payload. GVWR stays the same.
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