SFA Coming up! Yeah it's outside now...... Drives Nice

tommudd · **Posted:** Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:56 pm

Should be some on here I'll look around later

boneless hooker :ROTFL:

USAFCOP · **Posted:** Mon Sep 19, 2011 7:52 pm

tommudd wrote:

Should be some on here I'll look around later

boneless hooker :ROTFL:

I don't think pics of hookers of any human variety (not headers) would be allowed by the sensors on the forum Tom.... :juggle:

tommudd · **Posted:** Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:00 pm

Chino78 · **Posted:** Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:39 am

This is the aussie SFA KJ tom said... Look at the front and rear coilovers inside:

RED_KJ_666 · **Posted:** Wed Sep 21, 2011 5:05 pm

Nice, Where did you get all those pics from Chino?

tommudd · **Posted:** Wed Sep 21, 2011 7:42 pm

Thats the ONE!!
Looked for half an hour and gave up, knew they were somewhere around

CoopaTroopa · **Posted:** Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:48 pm

Chino78 · **Posted:** Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:34 pm

I can't remember where I got those pictures... I think it was a very old thread in a Australian jeep forum, but couldn't find it anymore... I remember the owner had a lot of problems with this steering system (OEM rack and pinion), but for the length of those coilovers it should flex like a boneless hooker :lol:

RED_KJ_666 · **Posted:** Fri Sep 23, 2011 4:58 pm

Still Finishing up the driver side coil mounts so it's not on its own weight yet.

Coilover is not connected to anything here at all

The Official Axle Location

JeepBumm68 · **Posted:** Fri Sep 23, 2011 5:04 pm

Woes of advice make sure you beef up your steering box area and tracker area. Ask me how I know from this!

RED_KJ_666 · **Posted:** Fri Sep 23, 2011 5:24 pm

The steering box area is super Beefed lol, once the box is mounted I will post pictures.

Chino78 · **Posted:** Fri Sep 23, 2011 5:47 pm

Wooow!!! How many inches of lift are you going to get?? 6?? How much did you have to cut?? How many inches of uptravel will you get?? :shock:

tjkj2002 · **Posted:** Fri Sep 23, 2011 6:41 pm

[quote="Chino78] How many inches of uptravel will you get?? :shock:

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From the below pic.............

It will be about 2" before the upper arm bracket hits the cradle.

RED_KJ_666 · **Posted:** Fri Sep 23, 2011 9:48 pm

What you are missing is that the Factory Cradle is no longer there the new setup offers a lot more clearance, Up travel is set to 4 inches, in that picture the Coilover isn't connected to the axle or the shock hoop either for that matter (I didn't notice until just now) Up travel is over rated anyways. The mount on the driver side comes with in half an inch of of touching, Passenger side is way off from hitting anything at full stuff. I have a set of Daystar Jounce stops I've been eyeing at work that may get employed up there. Yes I am at what appears to be right in the 6" neighborhood, but until it's back on the ground on it's own weight I won't be giving out any numbers as things could change as they have 4 or 5 times during this build. I think anyone who has been part of a Liberty SAS can attest to the fact that nothing is final until it's back on it's tires, The Ballistic cover may be swapped out (we might just rework it some?) because the steering hits it pretty hard. The exhaust work won't be easy on this one either.

Chino78 · **Posted:** Sun Sep 25, 2011 11:54 am

Ok, then if the upper control arms brackets are way off from hitting, what other items limits the up travel??... maybe the steering or track bar links???... How much did you have to come up through the engine bay the front coil overs?? :shock:

Sorry for a lot of questions but I would like to SFA my Liberty only if I can keep it as low as yours...

RED_KJ_666 · **Posted:** Sun Sep 25, 2011 12:09 pm

About 4.5" into the engine bay, not much else limits up travel but the upper mounts hitting the motor mount area. I only ever wanted 4" of up travel I went to 12" Coilovers from 14's so that I didn't have to go to far up in the engine bay there isn't alot of room there at all my mounts look like the ones used on that Australian build except my mounts will be bolt in. The rear was tricky to get set up to only run 4" (14" travel Bilstien 5150's there) of up travel and to get the arms set right, We may be moving the upper mounts up under the rear seat to get better seperation.

The Rear 864's are way too tall for me, so I went with 891's

This is with the 864's out back There was about 3/4 of an inch to spare between the jack stand and wheel well

this is with the 891's the yellow jack stands are half an inch shorter than the red ones in the previous picture

It will drop another 1/2 inch when the upper spring ads are fixed as well, The coils didn't seat all the way because the coil doesn't fit properly over the retainer assembly.

RED_KJ_666 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 27, 2011 6:00 pm

arengant · **Posted:** Tue Sep 27, 2011 9:42 pm

I'd drive it! Looking good!

RED_KJ_666 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 04, 2011 9:42 pm

Back on it's own weight after 7 months

The ride height needs to be adjusted up some.

The picture doesn't show it well but there's a inch and a quarter between the CO spring and body.

Bolt in shock hoops anyone?

USAFCOP · **Posted:** Tue Oct 04, 2011 11:35 pm

have fun bench bleeding the Master... It sucks doing it in the truck! mine was a bi---!

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