clevis lift

04kjsport · **Posted:** Wed Dec 28, 2005 9:54 am

tries doing the clevis lift last night and the 2" conduit nuts were too big. unless i did something wrong. for those out there that did it did you put the nuts flush with the bottom of the strut or did tou line them up with the mark on the strut that the clevis normally sits on??? i tried putting it flush with the notches but the nuts were too big.

ManicMechanicJoe · **Posted:** Wed Dec 28, 2005 6:11 pm

I didn't use conduit nuts when I did mine. Mine is a 3/8" which is enough to level everything out. I have done quite a bit of hard 18 year old style 4 wheeling and never had a problem.

KJ04 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 28, 2005 8:36 pm

They slide on over the bottom of the strut, then drop your strut down in the clevis flush with the conduit nuts and then torque the clevis to 100 lbs.

04kjsport · **Posted:** Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:28 am

i guess the problem is that i'm doing this with stock struts, maybe.
the nuts slide over no problem but they don't sit flush with the mark at the bottom of the strut they are slightly too big. are u guys putting the nuts at the very bottom of the strut just below the spring???
if possible does anyone have any pics??

camper · **Posted:** Thu Dec 29, 2005 1:36 pm

04kjsport · **Posted:** Thu Dec 29, 2005 2:47 pm

so can i do the same thing with stock struts or if i did use conduit nuts i would need more of them correct???

KJ04 · **Posted:** Sat Dec 31, 2005 3:29 pm

Most people are doing a 3/8" clevis, so 3 - 1/8" conduit nuts on each side should give you near an inch in lift.

ManicMechanicJoe · **Posted:** Sat Dec 31, 2005 4:17 pm

3/8" to 1/2" is a real nice safe number to go with as that will leave enouch contact with the strut and clevis.

Wilmo · **Posted:** Sun Jan 01, 2006 9:09 am

Can someone please post a pic of the conduit nut in place on a clevis lifted front end? This stops slipping of the clevis back up the strut I presume?

Thanks

KJ04 · **Posted:** Sun Jan 01, 2006 10:29 am

Wilmo wrote:

Can someone please post a pic of the conduit nut in place on a clevis lifted front end? This stops slipping of the clevis back up the strut I presume?

Thanks

Wilmo,
look at Campers strut picture above. The strut is the yellow thingy, the rusty thingy with the bolt is the clevis. Now imagine three conduit nuts stacked on top of one another filling the shinny yellow gap between the ridge on the strut and the clevis. They create a 3/8" spacer without having to measure, and avoid any possibility of the strut slipping back down into the clevis.

Now, to get them in there, you'll have to put jack stands under the front, remove the tires, disconnect the stabalizer link, separate the upper balljoint, and disconnect the the lower and upper bolts on clevis fork in order to slide the conduit nuts over the bottom of the strut. Reassemble in reverse!

This is also your basic procedure for installing a lift, other than removing the battery and air box and removing the bolts from the struts under the hood.

Now do you get the picture???

04kjsport · **Posted:** Sun Jan 01, 2006 8:23 pm

i feel better using conduit nuts, but i was wondering what to do since i have stock struts because 2" nuts will work but they sit beyond the normal location of the fork. so do i use more or what????

Wilmo · **Posted:** Sun Jan 01, 2006 8:57 pm

Yeah, I knew where they went before, and how to get them there. I just don't know what a Conduit Nut looks like! :lol:

Hence my request. Anyone?

Eddo · **Joined:** Thu Jul 07, 2005 7:01 pm **Posts:** 1214

I never used and nut or spacer. Just made sure they where nice and tight and never had a problem with them sliping.

KJ04 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 02, 2006 10:49 am

Wilmo wrote:

Yeah, I knew where they went before, and how to get them there. I just don't know what a Conduit Nut looks like! :lol:

Hence my request. Anyone?

Sorry Wilmo, I don't have any pics. Next yime you're in Home Depot or a hardware store just ask for 2" electrical conduit pipe nuts and they'll show ya.

waddy whiteguts · **Posted:** Mon Jan 02, 2006 3:33 pm

They look like this:

Or this:

KJ04 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 02, 2006 4:44 pm

04kjsport wrote:

i feel better using conduit nuts, but i was wondering what to do since i have stock struts because 2" nuts will work but they sit beyond the normal location of the fork. so do i use more or what????

What part of these posts are you not understanding?
Stock struts makes no difference.
How high do you want to go with the clevis lift?
3 - 1/8 nuts should net you aprox. .9375 of an inch.

Look at the pic above, reread the post and try to refrase your question.
(beyond the normal position of the strut fork)
The strut fork doesn't change location! The strut is moving up in the clevis and changing position.

04kjsport · **Posted:** Mon Jan 02, 2006 5:58 pm

What i was trying to say is that on the stock strut there are grooves dor the fork to sit and on all of these posts i haven't seen anyone with stock front struts that did the clevis lift. so i was aking do i need morte conduit nuts for the same effect since the groves on the bottom of the strut sit about an inch from the very bottom of the strut??

KJ04 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 02, 2006 6:11 pm

Three will give the same effect regardless.

1stJeepKJ · **Posted:** Mon Jan 02, 2006 7:12 pm

My bro and I fabbed up our own spacer out of aluminum tubing. It a little hard to see but it's worked very well so far. It's just shy of 7/16".

04kjsport · **Posted:** Tue Jan 03, 2006 9:08 am

cool thanks for the info

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