Here's what I've come up with so far. Pretty standard fare. Now, I know that lift question posts are done to death but I've read basically everything on this site. All I'm really looking for is any input or comments on this setup from those who have been there, done that. How many rear iso's will I need to get it to sit level and should you use upper or lower or does it even matter? I really don't want the front to sit higher than the rear at all.

OME 927/948 springs front/rear
Bilstein HD struts and shocks
Teraflex front bump stops, hockey puck rear.
Rear brake line bracket extension
JBA strut plates or a clevis lift.

Another question...I want to avoid buying uppper A-arms, so I'd like to keep the front flare to hub measurement at around 23 inches. I believe I've read that's about the limit before you have spring contact with the stock arms. With the parts I have, I'm not sure if I should get the JBA 1/4 strut plates or do a few rings in the clevis, or what would get me closest. Believe me I'd love to get the arms but I'm also buying a detroit truetrac for my rear end and that is a lot higher priority than more lift.


Jeep is a gasser with a stock bumper. I plan on an ARB bumper eventually in the future but this stuff is going to blow my Jeep budget for....well, years, probably haha. Oh, and if anyone has a coupon code for the JBA website...well that would be just swell.

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2006 Sport 4X4, Deep Beryl Green, NSG370, NV241J, Lifted with OME 927/948 and Bilstein, JBA 4.5 UCA's, Custom 3" Rear Y-Link Extension and Swaybar Relocation, 265/75-16 Toyo Open Country AT2 tires, Black Plastidipped bumpers, flares, and doors, Pioneer speakers, Alpine head unit, 1200w Phoenix Gold Amp, 12" Dayton Reference sub.

Looks pretty good
what you could do is a 3/8 inch clevis lift in front and one extra upper rear iso per side and it will be level when settled in won't have to buy the upper plate that way save some $$$$
plus you'll not have issues with coils hitting the UCA or anything but still a little more height

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MUDD'S MOTORSPORT'S We do IFS lift installs ,
03 OVERLAND EDITION /Kilby-Skidrow-Mopar-4XGuard skids/ 2.5 inch TOTAL CONTROL JBA coilovers -JBA Arms/MOABS-31 FALKEN WILDPEAK AT3W / 4.10's etc, 04 Kilimanjaro Edition loaded, plus 05 KJ limited

Cool, I'll go with that. What's the relationship between height added to the strut assembly with stuff like a clevis or plate vs how much overall height you gain?

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2006 Sport 4X4, Deep Beryl Green, NSG370, NV241J, Lifted with OME 927/948 and Bilstein, JBA 4.5 UCA's, Custom 3" Rear Y-Link Extension and Swaybar Relocation, 265/75-16 Toyo Open Country AT2 tires, Black Plastidipped bumpers, flares, and doors, Pioneer speakers, Alpine head unit, 1200w Phoenix Gold Amp, 12" Dayton Reference sub.

Everything you add doubles in front
for example you add a 1/4 inch top plate and you actually get 1/2 inch in lift
the 3/8 inch clevis gives you 3/4 inches of lift etc.

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MUDD'S MOTORSPORT'S We do IFS lift installs ,
03 OVERLAND EDITION /Kilby-Skidrow-Mopar-4XGuard skids/ 2.5 inch TOTAL CONTROL JBA coilovers -JBA Arms/MOABS-31 FALKEN WILDPEAK AT3W / 4.10's etc, 04 Kilimanjaro Edition loaded, plus 05 KJ limited

Thanks for the helpful replies. I just ordered my parts. I'm pretty excited, I've been reading up and waiting to lift this thing since I bought it new five years ago. Pics of the install to follow soon.

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2006 Sport 4X4, Deep Beryl Green, NSG370, NV241J, Lifted with OME 927/948 and Bilstein, JBA 4.5 UCA's, Custom 3" Rear Y-Link Extension and Swaybar Relocation, 265/75-16 Toyo Open Country AT2 tires, Black Plastidipped bumpers, flares, and doors, Pioneer speakers, Alpine head unit, 1200w Phoenix Gold Amp, 12" Dayton Reference sub.

Tom, so this is the highest you can go before upgrading the a arms? I am about to buy some parts to get a little more height today. I was planning on getting both the strut plate and do the clevis lift. I didnt realize this before but sounds like this is going to cause problems with the control arms?
Also, if I only do one of those...clevis lift or top plate, then I only need one extra rear iso correct? If I do both then I need two extra.
I have a 2006 Renegade...will I need to extende the rear brake lines?
Thanks
Sam

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you do 1/4 top plate and 3/8 clevis you need two extra upper iso's in the rear to be level
That will put you about 22.50 -(22.75 at first),
If only doing one or the other then yes only one upper in the rear then
You'll need to make a bracket for the brake line, not hard to do, flat piece of metal couple of holes, bend it on both ends to lower the brake line 2.5-3 inches

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MUDD'S MOTORSPORT'S We do IFS lift installs ,
03 OVERLAND EDITION /Kilby-Skidrow-Mopar-4XGuard skids/ 2.5 inch TOTAL CONTROL JBA coilovers -JBA Arms/MOABS-31 FALKEN WILDPEAK AT3W / 4.10's etc, 04 Kilimanjaro Edition loaded, plus 05 KJ limited

Thanks Tom! so to be clear doing both the upper strut plate and the clevis would require new A-arms?

I know you said you ran on stock a arms for a long time with no problems.. i was pretty certain you had both the upper strut plate and clevis lift, but figured i would double check to make sure

I ran with both and the stock arms for about 70,000 miles I think it was, really helped when I went to the 4.5s as far as alignment goes though

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MUDD'S MOTORSPORT'S We do IFS lift installs ,
03 OVERLAND EDITION /Kilby-Skidrow-Mopar-4XGuard skids/ 2.5 inch TOTAL CONTROL JBA coilovers -JBA Arms/MOABS-31 FALKEN WILDPEAK AT3W / 4.10's etc, 04 Kilimanjaro Edition loaded, plus 05 KJ limited