frankenlift help

05_renegade · **Posted:** Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:05 am

i just installed the front of my frankenlift and did a clevis too and now i have 5in of lift!!! is this bad?

Fulltimer · **Posted:** Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:15 am

Depends. How are the CV angels? 5" is way too much normally, so unless your front end was dragging before, it would be too much.

Terry

DryBones · **Posted:** Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:33 am

remove the clevis... you have a franky...that should be enough. What about the back? you said you just installed the front....may level out some if you have it all done before measuring! :lol:

mrkake · **Posted:** Sat Dec 06, 2008 2:35 am

DryBones wrote:

remove the clevis... you have a franky...that should be enough. What about the back? you said you just installed the front....may level out some if you have it all done before measuring! :lol:

Definitely do the back before you panic. And also realize that it will settle a bit. Mine has over 50k miles on it and I swear I barely have 2" now (hard to tell with the bigger tires on though and I didn't measure in the first place so I have no benchmark).

KJ Taz · **Posted:** Sat Dec 06, 2008 2:41 am

Yea my 2-1/2" lift after I first put it and the tires on gave me a little over 4-1/2". After a week or so it settled down. Some good offroading will settle a lift down real quick.

05_renegade · **Posted:** Sat Dec 06, 2008 9:11 am

ok i am doing the rear right now it might take awhile because its is only 10 degrees out right now and i might need to come in my house for breaks to warm up. ill update once im done.

05_renegade · **Posted:** Sat Dec 06, 2008 5:21 pm

well i took the clevis lift out and installed the rear and it is perfect now, its waiting right now to get aligned.

DryBones · **Posted:** Sat Dec 06, 2008 7:24 pm

PICTURES!!!!!!!!! :lol:

05_renegade · **Posted:** Sun Dec 07, 2008 7:23 pm

BostonJohn · **Posted:** Mon Dec 08, 2008 11:21 am

Looks pretty sweet. Did you get the HD springs?

05_renegade · **Posted:** Mon Dec 08, 2008 11:47 am

yeah i got hds

InCommando · **Posted:** Mon Dec 08, 2008 2:15 pm

A big issue with how much lift you get is that our front springs appear to be crap. Your KJ was probably sitting below stock height in the front. The 2.5" lift is over stock height. Just for example, if your front has dropped 1" and you added a 2.5" lift, the lift takes you back to stock height ( +1") and then the lift ( + 2.5" ) and gives you what appears to be 3.5" of lift. But the 1" of "recovered" height doesn't actually count.

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