For years, boats, yachts, and schooners have been using zinc to protect their cooling systems and aluminum engine parts due to electrolysis or cooling-additive breakdown. Now Flex-a-lite brings that protection to the Jeep market. The galvanic action that eats away at aluminum heads, water pumps, and blocks like salt eats at steel is ever present in the cooling system. Coolant only protects against that so well; this zinc anode can be placed anywhere in the cooling system where there is a 14-NPT fitting. The zinc will then sacrifice itself by being consumed through the galvanic action before any of the aluminum in the engine.
Information: Flex-a-lite; 800/851-1510, www.flex-a-lite.com.
Finally, there is a way to restore clarity to later-model Jeep headlights. The Headlight Restorer from Wynn's uses a unique two-step process that begins with a unique abrasive that removes embedded road dirt, grime, and contaminants without damaging plastic surfaces. The second step is a coating, which seals and protects the lens from further contamination. The result is a headlight lens that not only sparkles, but is also safer and legal again because they perform the way they did when new.
Information: Wynn's; 800/989-8363, www.wynnsusa.com.
If you are tired of twisting costly driveshafts due to damage received on the trail, Tom Wood's Custom Drive Shafts has the solution. It's called the Rock-N-Roll driveshaft, and the long side of the shaft is sleeved with an outer tube. The outer tube rides on two bearings so that as it is ground on a rock, the inner tube is free to continue spinning without damage or breakage. Every time the driveshaft tube receives damage, it is weakened; sometimes all it takes is one dent and then some fun with the stupid pedal to twist the shaft, yet sometimes the shaft will take a severe beating. Either way, the Rock-N-Roll driveshaft will help prevent those breakages.
Information: Tom Wood's CustomDrive Shafts; 877/497-4238, www.4xshaft.com.
AtoZ Fabrication now offers a winch plate combination upgrade for all standard bottom-mount 10-on-4.5-inch bolt pattern winches. The kit includes a CNC cut and formed high-strength structural steel winch plate, billet 6061 aluminum fairlead, and Viking Trail Line synthetic winch rope. The fairlead has been heat-treated to T-6 grade then anodized for additional corrosion protection.
Information: AtoZ Fabrication; 609/668-3043, www.atozfabrication.com.
The HID6500 (6-inch) and HID8500 (8-inch) High Intensity Discharge lights from Vision X Off Road Lighting are not only glaringly bright but simple to install and rugged, to boot. Made from a tough die-cast aluminum housing in chrome or black, these lights feature an integrated ballast, Euro beam fluted glass lens, and a mounting depth of only 3.4 inches. These lights kick out three times the light of a 55-watt halogen bulb all while using only a 35-watt D2 HID bulb that draws 4.2 amps.
Information: Vision Motor Sports; 800/994-4460, www.visionxoffroad.com.