There’s A DIY Jeep Gladiator 2-Door Long Bed Now
Two-door midsize pickups are few and far between these days.
The only one that you can get from the factory is the Toyota Tacoma and you’ll have to settle for a six-foot bed. The Nissan Frontier King Cab is close, but has small rear-hinged doors and the same size box.
The Ford Ranger, Chevy Colorado, GMC Canyon and Honda Ridgeline are only available with full four-door bodies and Ram doesn’t even have a midsize truck in its lineup.
At least not right now. It’s going to be introducing one sometime next year, but hasn’t released any information about it. Considering the brand doesn’t even sell a two-door full-size Ram 1500 these days, don’t count on whatever the Dakota successor ends up being called to be offered with less that four doors.
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Ram’s sister company Jeep does sell the Gladiator midsize pickup, but it is also a four-door-only model. At least when you take it home.
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South Carolina’s GR8TOPS is selling a Gladiator conversion kit that turns it into a regular cab two-door that can fit an eight-foot bed with minimal fuss, according to Mopar Insiders.
The JTRUK Truck Cab kit doesn’t require any frame, brake line, fuel line or sensor modifications. The company says the work can be completed by an “average person” in their garage in less than a day.
The package includes a fiberglass cab back with a speaker pod and third brake light, epoxy bonding kit, seam sealer, a side gasket for the Freedom top panels and retro JTruk badges. The only caveat is that 2025 Gladiators with rear side curtain airbags will need them deactivated, which is best done by a professional.
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According to GR8TOPS, the resulting chassis cab weighs 3,830 pounds compared to the Gladiator’s 4,742 pounds, so there’s 2,430 pounds of payload to play with for adding a bed, service body or camper, which the company does not sell. The price is $4,900 with a solid cab back and $5,100 with a sliding rear window. GR8TOPS will do the build for you at a starting price of $11,500.
Since the Gladator and Wrangler share a common body from the front doors forward, GR8TOPS also offers a kit for the Wrangler that will turn it into a 2-door that can support up to a six-foot bed.
The official Mopar catalog used to sell a similar JK-8 kit that came with a four-foot bed for the last generation Wrangler, but it is no longer available and it didn’t make one for the current JL Wrangler since Jeep launched the Gladiator in 2020.