Skyjacker VS frankinlift

JeepJunky33 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 04, 2007 10:11 pm

So here's the deal. I have rusty's spacer lift now for 3 years. I hate it. It gives me very little travel (bottom and top out my suspension all day long). Plus the fact that it totally destroyed my front sturts. So now I am looking at coil lifts that come with front stuts. I have it down to either the skyjacker or the frankinlift. The skyjacker is about $200 less but I was wondering if anyone has experiance with it or know anything about it and how it compares. Please help me out. Thanks

slopoke · **Posted:** Sat Aug 04, 2007 10:26 pm

FRANKINLIFT hands down. Saves time plus it has the best of all kits out there.

dieselenthusiast · **Posted:** Sat Aug 04, 2007 11:12 pm

Frankenlift is the way to go, I've heard that the coils on the Skyjacker are too soft. Skyjacker first came out with "firm" coils but later changed them.

jason thompson · **Posted:** Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:40 am

JeepJunky33 wrote:

So here's the deal. I have rusty's spacer lift now for 3 years. I hate it. It gives me very little travel (bottom and top out my suspension all day long). Plus the fact that it totally destroyed my front sturts. So now I am looking at coil lifts that come with front stuts. I have it down to either the skyjacker or the frankinlift. The skyjacker is about $200 less but I was wondering if anyone has experiance with it or know anything about it and how it compares. Please help me out. Thanks

IMO just buy the Front Franky and keep the spacers in the rear but replace the shocks
this would be the cheepest route ,unless the rear coils are saging the spacer is not hurting any thing on a coil/shock set up like the rear
Thinking about it you may be able to run the OME long shocks with the spacer with no bump stop mods if the rear spacer is on the axel

redcrd · **Posted:** Sun Aug 05, 2007 11:11 pm

i currently have the skyjacker lift and it is the worst suspension (a waste of 700 odd dollars), I've blown 3 struts (all covered under warranty) for the front and only from street driving. I am replacing the skyjacker with the Frankenlift OME which should be in tomorrow. Save yourself alot of headache and go with the Frankenlift!

spencevans · **Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2007 2:17 am

I also made the switch to the Frankenlift and it was one of the best decisions I have ever made concerning my liberty.

Rock Lizard · **Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2007 3:21 am

The Old Man Emu components are a better quality product than Skyjacker, no matter what vehicle you are talking about. So you pay a little more for a quality product, that's pretty standard with anything you buy. Something else to think about is are the Skyjacker components preassembled like the Frankenlift parts? If you get a KJ lift installed at my shop, I gaurantee you will pay nearly an extra $200 in labor to assemble the front strut assembly. It takes more time, more hands, is a safety hazard, and I personally will use the extra labor payment to pay someone else to assemble it because I'm not doing it. It is that big of a pain in the butt. Keep that in mind if you plan on installing yourself. If you do to save money, you will wish you had paid someone else to assemble the strut assemblies.

So, in short, the difference in product quality and having the strut assembly preassembled is worth more than a $200 difference.

HIKJ · **Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2007 4:26 am

I have had Skyjacker and it was worthless. Now have OME with King Springs, totally happy.

JJsTJ · **Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2007 7:50 am

I agree w/ the positive comments on the Frankenlift from All J products. I have been very happy w/ my first generation version (wheeled on two different KJ's over the last 3 years) and will be upgrading it to the newer version soon.

broncsrule · **Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:50 am

I currently have the skyjacker, have had it since my Liberty was born in 04. I have had no complaints, lots of wheelin'. But, I think my struts are ready to be changed. They have 40K on them, so I am satisfied.

But, I will "upgrade" to a Frankie front and Al's arms soon. It is a well tested system.

JeepJunky33 · **Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2007 4:12 pm

Wow everyone......thanks so much for all the the helpful comments. I think you all made up my mind for me. Now heres another question....Should I go with the standard or premium package? I'm leaning towards the premium. I can't affor the others so they are out. But what do you think. Is the premium worth it?

spencevans · **Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2007 8:22 pm

You get what you pay for. The OME components are what makes the Frankenlift so nice.

redcrd · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2007 2:11 pm

If you can, definately OME strut also

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