Another damn XJ

[Shaggy]

my thoughts exactly

[colman]

you could make drop down shackle hanger brackets in the rear for the rear and get some spacers for the front coils

[CheapJeep]

If you don't want to buy a complete kit, for the front I wouldn't use coil spacers. I would try to find some coils out of another vehicle that would give you the amount of lift you want. Maybe f150's or dodge coils? Then buy Colman's 2" xj leaf's and add a small lift block.

[colman]

it;s sua so he can't use lift blocks and if you want my springs make me an offer

[TMatheaus]

no, its soa, i tried a set of f150 springs off my brothers truck and they didn't fit b/c the spring has a flat part on the end instead of being round, but i will look into more options, if anybody has anything let me know and i will think about what to do some more

[colman]

so should i assume that my 2" springs aren't what you want cause you could buy those from me for 40 and then make a 1" lift block out of something or buy it and then find a 3" spacer for the front

[stx4wheeler]

one i dont think they make a 3 inch spacer for the front, so buy some decent coils or a kit.

tommy you might take a look at rear grand cherokees, i remember when we did cooks first lift we took the rear springs and put them up front for like two inches of lift.

[JeepPhisherman]

He'd have to make new buckets for the front, rear WJ springs are fatties.

I've got those 4.5" springs, but that's a good bit higher than what you want.

oh, and buy my bumper.

[eight]

I think cook put the front springs on the rear. You can get 3" lift RE coils for about $140 shipped. Then put coleman's rear springs on and see how it looks. I'm pretty sure people put f150 coils on them but they don't flex, and I don't think there is a stock spring from anything that will give much lift and still flex. Front WJ or rubicon coils will give an inch or 2 of lift supposedly.

[TMatheaus]

well I ordered a 3" lift from rusty's offroad, half of it came in on friday, and the other half is supposed to be in on tuesday, but I did get the front lifted, I also ordered the lower control arms, bought a parts jeep, got the tires put onto the wheels, but one of them has a ripped bead, so i'm gonna try to get that warrantied if my brother ever finds the certs that were on the tires. Things left to do before TCC: install rear lift, install trans and tcase, weld rear, make sliders, find another 32" tire for a spare, and another 15x8 wheel for spare

[CheapJeep]

Lookin' good Thomas...

[JeepPhisherman]

Ah, internship $$ hard at work I see...

[sasquatch]

make sure you don't do **** like this

[TMatheaus]

Made some more progress on it this weekend. Finished putting the rear lift on, changed power steering hose, removed 2wd AX15 and installed the AW4 and NP231, changed wire harness out to accommodate for the auto, put the grill piece back on so I can have headlights again, and found another tire for cheap.
Things left to do before tcc: hook up all the wires, cables, and linkages for the tranny and tcase, install rear brake hose, weld rear, trim rear fenders, install dshafts, make sliders and bumpers.
It still has more flex, I just ran out of height on the tree I was driving up.

[TMatheaus]

i got some more work done on it over the weekend, i got all the linkages hooked up, wires connected, dshafts installed, changed tranny and tcase fluid, changed spark plugs, and did some other small stuff to it

it runs and drives on under its own power now, but it wont start with a key for some reason, when you turn the key you can hear the fuel pump prime, then when you turn it to start nothing happens, the needle in the temp gauge will peg out, i am thinking that its the neutral safety switch, i have been starting it by using a switch that i have that jumps the terminals on the solenoid

things that need to be done before tcc:

install rear brake line
weld rear diff
install aux fan
change out torque convertor bolts
hook e-brake cables back up