88Xj
Banned
Had fun the past few days. I had my terraflex arms set to 16" eye-eye for my 3" lift. But going over bumps or uneven road at city speeds (45mph-ish) felt uneven and rough. So I started looking at stretching my front end and rear end. Obviously the only way to stretch the rear is buy adjustable spring perches or longer leafs. I do want to run the Davescustom antiwrap spring perches one day. They are of course antiwrap and allow you to move the axle forward .75", leave it in the stock location or more it backward .75". Anyway since I have adjustable uppers & lowers I decided to push my front axle forward a few inches. Most people say you can move the axle about 2" forward without issue, so I went for it. I set my lowers to 18.5" and uppers to 16". That moved my axle forward about 2.5" without much issue, other than needing some fender trimming. Caster was almost perfect and needed minor adjustment but no binding anywhere.
My setup is a Rustys HD 3" coil, stock track bar, Zj steering, no sway bars at all. I am running Jk shocks currently and they compression more than enough, but aren't long enough. They are 17" collapsed & 24.5" extended. I just ordered Dt8386 shocks though as they are 17" collapsed & 29.8 or so extended.
Ride improved greatly, and so did flex.
Before I could flex pretty good, but now (with shocks disconnected because they limit down travel) I can flex good enough to get my trackbar bracket on the frame. Yes, when stuffing my passenger side wheel my trackbar bracket will contact the frame. Obviously it won't flex anymore than that.
No bumpstops up front at all and yup I need to trim a little lol. When stuffing my driverside wheel, I get it pretty far, but the trackbar hits the trackbar bracket which limits me.
Idk if a aftermarket trackbar will solve this or not? My axle in center perfectly, it just hits when flexing. I have no binding at all, lock-lock even at full stuff/droop. I do however max out the TRE on my pitman arm. I am soon going OTK with my ZJ steering so that should help.
Anyway front setup is listed, rear setup is 1" OME MD leafs, and a 2.5" full length RE AAL, stock shackle and Rancho Rs9000 shocks. It gives about 2.75" of lift and sits slightly lower than my front. I soon plan to have shackle relocation boxes and a MJ shackle to better ride & flex.
Currently my leafs have 2 clip holding them together and the clips are as close to the center of the leafs as possible. When flexing my leafs seperate almost completely. It bearly lifts the rear wheel when flexing, so the longer shackle and relocation boxes will be a nice upgrade!
I'll have pictures shortly but wanted to share my experience.
I also learned that scraping rockers in a Xj is much to easy, so the 2x6 rocker replacement is now top of my list, as well as getting my front locker installed.
My setup is a Rustys HD 3" coil, stock track bar, Zj steering, no sway bars at all. I am running Jk shocks currently and they compression more than enough, but aren't long enough. They are 17" collapsed & 24.5" extended. I just ordered Dt8386 shocks though as they are 17" collapsed & 29.8 or so extended.
Ride improved greatly, and so did flex.
Before I could flex pretty good, but now (with shocks disconnected because they limit down travel) I can flex good enough to get my trackbar bracket on the frame. Yes, when stuffing my passenger side wheel my trackbar bracket will contact the frame. Obviously it won't flex anymore than that.
No bumpstops up front at all and yup I need to trim a little lol. When stuffing my driverside wheel, I get it pretty far, but the trackbar hits the trackbar bracket which limits me.
Idk if a aftermarket trackbar will solve this or not? My axle in center perfectly, it just hits when flexing. I have no binding at all, lock-lock even at full stuff/droop. I do however max out the TRE on my pitman arm. I am soon going OTK with my ZJ steering so that should help.
Anyway front setup is listed, rear setup is 1" OME MD leafs, and a 2.5" full length RE AAL, stock shackle and Rancho Rs9000 shocks. It gives about 2.75" of lift and sits slightly lower than my front. I soon plan to have shackle relocation boxes and a MJ shackle to better ride & flex.
Currently my leafs have 2 clip holding them together and the clips are as close to the center of the leafs as possible. When flexing my leafs seperate almost completely. It bearly lifts the rear wheel when flexing, so the longer shackle and relocation boxes will be a nice upgrade!
I'll have pictures shortly but wanted to share my experience.
I also learned that scraping rockers in a Xj is much to easy, so the 2x6 rocker replacement is now top of my list, as well as getting my front locker installed.
