How Good Is This Lift??

jsc7002 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2007 4:45 pm

The guy emailed me and offered it to me for $140 counting shipping, my question is should i? what do you know about it?

EDIT: sorry I thought I put it down here it is:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayI ... :IT&ih=013

raceinfan · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2007 4:49 pm

gotta know what kind of lift it is :?:

link, pictures :?:

jsc7002 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2007 5:07 pm

DOETSCH TECH Jeep Liberty suspension lift: Springs, Strut plates and rear shocks. 3inch in Front 4inch in rear

and if i shouldnt get it why?

snowsport · **Joined:** Tue Oct 18, 2005 11:52 pm **Posts:** 1211

I've never heard of a Doetch tech lift per se. To me that looks like a Rockfather 2 lift with no front struts. I had the RF2 for about 2 years before I got the OME HD. I ran the Doetch tech DT 8000 shocks with the RF2 but swapped them for Ranchos after about a year or so. The RF2 (if that's what it is) is a good lift but you'll need front struts for it. Of course it all depends on how long the lift was in his vehicle and what he did with it.

jsc7002 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:14 pm

im going to buy it!! lol i went and looked at them it turns out that they are OME Old Man Emu Spring Coils with Doetsch Tech rear shocks!! ill clean them up and post some pics when i get them

and all for only $140

AND it has less than 10000 miles on it!

tommudd · **Posted:** Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:25 pm

OK so I voted for nothing

Tom

WoodysKJ · **Posted:** Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:30 pm

HE!! NO,

Don't waste your money.

Save it for an OME lift. Am I imagining things, is one of the shocks bent?

Looks like a cheap piece of CRA...

kj in a tight spot · **Posted:** Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:40 pm

x2 shouldnt have gone and bought that lift IMO, but you didnt give us enough time to give opinions :roll:

You do realize that yer gona be needin a set of front struts...?? Shock looks bent to me to, but its your money, o and by the way just by lookin at the shocks and the rear springs that he claims give a 4" lift it is obvious this aint true...also you do realize that 100% of the voters cast NO as their choice...

tommudd · **Posted:** Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:46 pm

Thats what is keeping the world going people buying cheap junk! I sure am glad I took the time to vote NO and to think I could of been of been doing something productive!!!

KJ04 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:12 pm

tommudd wrote:

Thats what is keeping the world going people buying cheap junk! I sure am glad I took the time to vote NO and to think I could of been of been doing something productive!!!

Hey Tom,
I think you just called OME springs, cheap junk. Fingers must have been going faster than the ole brain. :lol:

WoodysKJ · **Posted:** Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:21 pm

I think those were springs and shocks off a PRE LOWERED KJ. Or i should say OEM as in original equipment, not OME as in Old Man Emu.

Old Man Emu shocks and springs are YELLOW, not black and white, like the stock ones are.

You just got Fu$#&*!!!!

Hope you enjoyed wasting the money. That is why I don't shop on Ebay.

Is that shock Bent?

Hey jsc7002, I've got some beach front property in Levenworth i can sell you real cheap.

bbo · **Joined:** Fri Sep 30, 2005 5:17 pm **Posts:** 382

also the Doetsch Tech shocks are crap, but that just my opinion .. I got some as part of a kit when I lowered my 94 SS S10 ... less than one year and both bent and one broke .. replaced with Bilsteins ... going on twelve years strong now .. (yes ... I lowered that truck when less than one month old )

kj in a tight spot · **Posted:** Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:51 pm

WoodysKJ wrote:

Old Man Emu shocks and springs are YELLOW, not black and white, like the stock ones are.

The shocks and stabilizer are yellow but the springs are black :wink:

WoodysKJ wrote:

You just got Fu$#&*!!!!

Hope you enjoyed wasting the money. That is why I don't shop on Ebay.

Is that shock Bent?

Hey jsc7002, I've got some beach front property in Levenworth i can sell you real cheap.

I agree here, but he aint gonna admit he was quick to jump the gun on this one...guarantee that!!!

tommudd · **Posted:** Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:05 pm

Cheap junk due to not knowing anything about the shocks or really what kind of springs, if they are in fact OME OK but are they the light, medium, HDs WHAT??????????????

I just meant before I spent even 140 or whatever I would want to know what I was buying, how many miles on them, etc., but if you dont know all that it may as well be cheap junk.
I got burned on a set of air horns a few months back on flea bay guy said one thing showed a picture of something else and what arrived was even different than that!
If they are OMEs and low mileage (under10000 miles) then GREAT BUY!!! and I spoke too soon!! :wink:

yep Tom said that

tjkj2002 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:27 pm

If they claim to get 3' front and 4" rear,then those springs are not OME,OME springs alone only give about 1 1/2" of lift(40mm).All OME springs come from ARB with a white tag on then giving the part# also,even though they are just paper and can come off.

jsc7002 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:31 pm

how long are the front and rear OME springs? and the front and rear stock springs?

and as for the shocks i plan on replacing them anyways and getting new struts so im doing it just for the coil springs

Johnboy · **Posted:** Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:43 pm

OME springs are pretty cheap, it is the shocks and struts that cost the moola...least if you buy them new you know what they are. I am a sucker for a good deal, but defining a good deal is the kicker.... and I voted no (5th person to vote this morning).

What series of situations would lead up to selling front and rear springs, rear shocks, and 2 strut plates?

Groo · **Posted:** Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:55 pm

That lift looks remarkably like the RRO budget lift minus the rear sring spacers with pre-lowered springs. It quite common for the Dotsch shocks to sold as part of that lift kit. If you run that kit you will run into problems (correctable with extended bumpstops). I have leanred the hard way, if it is worth putting into your Jeep, it is worth spending the money it takes to do it right the first time.

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