Today I put the drop brackets and braces on my Jeep. Rough Country's drop brackets and braces are very well built and well thought out. They are also very beefy and I have no fear of them failing at anytime. They fit very well and were very easy to install.
The hardest part of the install was taking apart my Jeep. My Jeep is an eastern Jeep but the rust was not the problem, my lift has only been on for about 2 years. The hardest part was getting the damn upper control arms off. On the passenger side, the upper bolt came out without much problem. Once it was out, the problem was getting the control arm out of the stock bracket. Once it was out everything bolted right up without any problems.
The drivers side upper control arm: the nut came off rather easy but then we couldn't get the bolt out. We had to undo the upper control arm at the axle. The nut came off easy but we had one hell of a time gettng the bolt out. Once we pounded on it for a while it came out, and everything went back together very easy.
These do push you axle forward at least an inch. once everything was bolted back up, my sway bar was hitting my coil spring on the passenger side. It was not to bad to fix the problem. All we did was rotate the coil spring slightly.
The drop brackets have made my Jeep ride much better. They have also reduced the amount of noise coming into the cab because of the reduced angle of the control arms. Now when I run over a bump in the road, or a pot hole, it doesn't jar the Jeep like it used to.
Over all I am VERY pleased with the purchase, and so far the performance of these parts. I will be taking the Jeep on it's first offroad trip, since the install, this weekend. I will let you now how they do.
The hardest part of the install was taking apart my Jeep. My Jeep is an eastern Jeep but the rust was not the problem, my lift has only been on for about 2 years. The hardest part was getting the damn upper control arms off. On the passenger side, the upper bolt came out without much problem. Once it was out, the problem was getting the control arm out of the stock bracket. Once it was out everything bolted right up without any problems.
The drivers side upper control arm: the nut came off rather easy but then we couldn't get the bolt out. We had to undo the upper control arm at the axle. The nut came off easy but we had one hell of a time gettng the bolt out. Once we pounded on it for a while it came out, and everything went back together very easy.
These do push you axle forward at least an inch. once everything was bolted back up, my sway bar was hitting my coil spring on the passenger side. It was not to bad to fix the problem. All we did was rotate the coil spring slightly.
The drop brackets have made my Jeep ride much better. They have also reduced the amount of noise coming into the cab because of the reduced angle of the control arms. Now when I run over a bump in the road, or a pot hole, it doesn't jar the Jeep like it used to.
Over all I am VERY pleased with the purchase, and so far the performance of these parts. I will be taking the Jeep on it's first offroad trip, since the install, this weekend. I will let you now how they do.
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