Major Lift HELP!! ***Completed pics / MEASUREMENTS on page 2

dloc_jeep_KJ · **Posted:** Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:16 am

looks good man

Troysterr · **Posted:** Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:25 am

Very nice.

tommudd · **Posted:** Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:57 am

Looking great, glad you made it through it even with brown stains!!!

Fulltimer · **Posted:** Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:03 am

She is looking gooooooooood!

Terry

03kjsport · **Posted:** Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:09 am

nice. im sure she puts a smile on your face.

Jeep4me99 · **Posted:** Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:47 pm

Thanks for the compliments guys! I get tons of looks on the roads, and 2 thumbs up so far.

Since the front settle a bit I decided to take some measurements

(stock / rustys / phrankenlift)
drivers pinch weld: 11 3/4" / 15" / 17 3/4" (passenger side is pretty much the same)

bottom of front reese: 15" / 18" / 21 1/4"

Bottom of Front Diff: 7" / 10 1/4" / 12 1/4"

each site has a different amount of gain, so the average gain from the 3 spots is 2.66" over rusty's and
5.83" over stock

i dont have measurements vs rustys or stock for these two sites, but i can compare them to JBA's 4" lift from TokyoJoe's measurements

(me / tokyojoe)
driver side mirror-inner 47" / 48"
driver fender from floor 36 3/4" / 37 1/8"

not too shabby!

tommudd · **Posted:** Thu Jan 10, 2008 5:04 pm

Thanks for the measurements, have you gotten it aligned yet and did they get it close to specs, you have me now wanting to go out to the garage and start putting my "special " lift together!! :wink:

Tom

WoodysKJ · **Posted:** Thu Jan 10, 2008 5:53 pm

Jeep4me99 wrote:

So I finally go everything done today..it only took like a day and a half. I ran into almost every major problem. The final one being that the LBJ stud threads were all messed up i guess from road debris, .......

Same thing happened to me. Sorry I didn't tell you how I fixed mine.

the key to it is the Nyloc nut. it wants to do its job before you get it tightened. that nylon end grabbs the threads and makes it a witch to tighten because the ball joint then wants to do it's job, too soon. A friend told me to use ANYTHING liquid, (spit, beer, no wait he said don't waste the beer, loctite, vasiline... what ever) to lube the nylon part and then use as fast of a wrench (Impact, drill with socket, what ever) to spin that nut on as fast as possible while using channel locks on the nuckle and lower control arm to squeeze the ball joint together. once it was tightened then i could torque it to specs.

Sorry for that important bit of info left out.

Looks great and i bet it rides even better. ENJOY!!!!

DarbyWalters · **Posted:** Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:32 pm

Get those A Arms as soon as you can...that will be another fun day :wink:

Jeep4me99 · **Posted:** Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:05 pm

tommudd wrote:

Thanks for the measurements, have you gotten it aligned yet and did they get it close to specs, you have me now wanting to go out to the garage and start putting my "special " lift together!! :wink:

Tom

It def drives better now since the alignment, they got it pretty close, just the camber is off a bit, but hopefully that will be fixed with the a-arms.

From DarbyWalters: "Get those A Arms as soon as you can...that will be another fun day"

Greaaaaaaaaaaaat, I love the sound of that. Are they really that bad to put in?

WoodysKJ · **Posted:** Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:48 pm

Jeep4me99 wrote:

tommudd wrote:

Thanks for the measurements, have you gotten it aligned yet and did they get it close to specs, you have me now wanting to go out to the garage and start putting my "special " lift together!! :wink:

Tom

It def drives better now since the alignment, they got it pretty close, just the camber is off a bit, but hopefully that will be fixed with the a-arms.

From DarbyWalters: "Get those A Arms as soon as you can...that will be another fun day"

Greaaaaaaaaaaaat, I love the sound of that. Are they really that bad to put in?

Just to say that you MIGHT wish you had done it all at once....

WoodysKJ · **Posted:** Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:48 pm

Jeep4me99 wrote:

tommudd wrote:

Thanks for the measurements, have you gotten it aligned yet and did they get it close to specs, you have me now wanting to go out to the garage and start putting my "special " lift together!! :wink:

Tom

It def drives better now since the alignment, they got it pretty close, just the camber is off a bit, but hopefully that will be fixed with the a-arms.

From DarbyWalters: "Get those A Arms as soon as you can...that will be another fun day"

Greaaaaaaaaaaaat, I love the sound of that. Are they really that bad to put in?

Just to say that you MIGHT wish you had done it all at once.... But now that you are a pro it should go fine... wink wink nudge nudge

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