Lawn Cher'
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- Westampton, NJ
Eagle said:You probably have a Trailmaster lift. It includes rather beefy front coils, drop brackets, and rear AALs. The one I had on my MJ was a shortie AAL -- don't know what they come with now. The Trailmaster is nominally a 4" lift.
The reason you don't have wobbles is that the drop brackets are designed to maintain stock front suspension geometery at 4" of lift. Your control arms are still parellel to the pavement. Throw in your coil spacers and they won't be.
4" is all the lift you need to run 31" tires. Doesn't matter if you have begun collecting parts for additional lift. You haven't got any need to lift more. You haven't even disconnected yet, so you have not begun to test the capabilities of your vehicle. You are just asking for problems if you take a factory lift kit that's designed to work together -- and does work together, as evidenced by the fact that you don't have death wobble -- and start throwing mis-matched parts at it.
It's been said before, but I'll say it again: you are approaching this all wrong. If you had a stock vehicle, we would be advising you to run it stock until you see how much lift or other changes you need, then decide on the MINIMUM lift necessary to run the trails you have access to. You bought a Jeep with a 4" lift. That's a vary capable setup. You haven't begun to test its limits yet. There is no reason for you to go higher. There is CERTAINLY no reason for you to go higher in a jury-rigged, Mickey Mouse fashion that's going to make your rig dangerous to you and anyone sharing the road with you.
Listen up, man! You can't even afford to buy shock absorbers -- stop looking for problems. Just start saving, and spend the time learning the capabilities of your vehicle. If, sometime down the road, you find that you really NEED to go higher, don't do it until you have the money to buy a complete kit and do it right. The cost of lifting is exponential. Start tossing parts at your Jeep and you'll just create a Frankenstein that's unsafe on the street and still won't perform any better off-road than what you have now.
:clap: I couldn't have said it any better myself. :clap:
And even if I could, I probably wouldn't have. :nono: :banghead: :twak: