For those of you that have installed a lift lately

BjBnet · **Posted:** Thu Apr 30, 2009 10:42 pm

Make sure you go over all the nuts and bolts to make sure they are tight.
When I put the rear lift in a few days later my shocks when knocking a bit and needed to be re-tightened. They are fine now.
I put the front in 2 weeks ago and purposely waited till today to do the front brakes today so that I may check everything over again. Sure enough, my clevis assemblies needed to be tightened as well as the UCA nut on one side and sway bar nuts too. Everything was torqued last time....
Now all is tight and my front brakes are perfect.....going in tomorrow morning to see if the dealer will do an alignment on a lift KJ :roll:

Drassis · **Joined:** Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:31 pm **Posts:** 182

BjBnet wrote:

Make sure you go over all the nuts and bolts to make sure they are tight.
When I put the rear lift in a few days later my shocks when knocking a bit and needed to be re-tightened. They are fine now.
I put the front in 2 weeks ago and purposely waited till today to do the front brakes today so that I may check everything over again. Sure enough, my clevis assemblies needed to be tightened as well as the UCA nut on one side and sway bar nuts too. Everything was torqued last time....
Now all is tight and my front brakes are perfect.....going in tomorrow morning to see if the dealer will do an alignment on a lift KJ :roll:

Very good point, one time i forgot to retorque some lug nuts, but we wont talk about that

KJ 119 · **Posted:** Fri May 01, 2009 6:12 pm

BJBnet,you might want to price around for the allignment.The dealer might hit ya hard.

SweepnChoke · **Posted:** Fri May 01, 2009 6:49 pm

I'd go some where else instead of the dealership as well. A) it will be more expensive, B) the one alignment (on lifted liberty) I ever did at the Jeep Dealership near me sucked, wound up getting it redone elsewhere 2 weeks later. Best bet is a tire shop, somewhere that specializes in alignments.

BjBnet · **Posted:** Sat May 02, 2009 8:13 am

Called one dealer and they quoted me $100
Called an Auto Service place called Canadian Tire (kinda like Walmart) they quoted my $90 but then said there's no warranty and after looking at it said the springs were too close to the UCAs.
Went to another dealer yesterday the have my exhaust checked and asked them how much for an alignment....the guy says "$80....and it's been that since 1991, there's no reason to jack the price"
So I told him my KJ was lifted he said " That's fine, our guy here works on lifted and custom Jeeps all the time, he loves it!"
So now it's done and it's perfect.

But I agree with you guys in most cases, DON'T GO TO THE DEALER for stuff like that. But at least try different ones before giving up on them.
:wink:

ZERO6 · **Posted:** Sat May 02, 2009 9:21 am

Ya the dealership is such a rip off. If I
need a part I call my friend that works
at a Mack dealer and he orders the
parts I need for about half the price
from the same dealership that I asked
about for a part. They really know how
to screw the average Renny owner....

stormyday · **Posted:** Sat May 02, 2009 10:11 am

I've been told by the high end tire shops that they cannot properly align a lifted Liberty. The issue is the newer laser machines are automatically set for a stock range of tires that normally goes on a vehicle. So the issue is tire size. In my case I could not use Goodyear and wound up going to a "tire shop" where I got burned with very bad alignment....discussed in another thread. Considering the outrageous cost of tires today (recession didn't help a bit) it's important to get it perfect. And and I discovered it can impact our safely going down the road in wet conditions.

All this information from you folks going through a lift is a great help since I'll be relifting mine with new parts in the coming week.

Jeepjeepster · **Posted:** Sat May 02, 2009 12:30 pm

My gosh, $100 for a alignment is insane.. I pay $30 and I get to stand by my Jeep and make sure they do it right.

BjBnet · **Posted:** Sat May 02, 2009 8:56 pm

Jeepjeepster wrote:

My gosh, $100 for a alignment is insane..

that's why I don't feel bad at all for car manufacturers and their dealers going belly up....but that's for another thread :wink:

tjkj2002 · **Posted:** Sat May 02, 2009 9:12 pm

ZERO6 wrote:

Ya the dealership is such a rip off. If I
need a part I call my friend that works
at a Mack dealer and he orders the
parts I need for about half the price
from the same dealership that I asked
about for a part. They really know how
to screw the average Renny owner....

Reason your friend gets cheaper prices is that his shop has a account with that dealership which allows them to get the parts at cost and tax free.Every shop does high mark ups on parts,it's a general rule of about 100%-200% markup

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stormyday

I've been told by the high end tire shops that they cannot properly align a lifted Liberty. The issue is the newer laser machines are automatically set for a stock range of tires that normally goes on a vehicle. So the issue is tire size. In my case I could not use Goodyear and wound up going to a "tire shop" where I got burned with very bad alignment....discussed in another thread. Considering the outrageous cost of tires today (recession didn't help a bit) it's important to get it perfect. And and I discovered it can impact our safely going down the road in wet conditions.

Totally false,they just don't want to deal with a lifted vehicle.I work at a "high end" tire place and have zero difficulty in aligning a lifted KJ.We can not align anything with 22" or larger rims,certain aftermarket rims with tires with bead protectors,and cars with 13" or smaller wheels.

TAHOE · **Posted:** Sun May 03, 2009 8:37 am

tjkj2002 wrote:

Reason your friend gets cheaper prices is that his shop has a account with that dealership which allows them to get the parts at cost and tax free.Every shop does high mark ups on parts,it's a general rule of about 100%-200% markup

My brother in law has a shop, sometimes he gets parts from Atuozone, advance auto, etc. He pays the same as I would walking in the store, and he still adds 50-100% markup when working on the car....insane, but that's one way shops make money.
I've been quoted $199 for a lifetime alignment, luckily I know someone who works there :wink:

and got a basic one for a lot cheaper.

BjBnet · **Posted:** Sun May 03, 2009 9:29 am

that reminds me.....
I asked the dealer if they had a lifetime alignment package and he laughed at me, he thought I was kidding. He said it didn't exist. I said "OH yes it does....in the States" :lol:

It was a "fun" conversation, the guy was real nice and professional.

tjkj2002 · **Posted:** Sun May 03, 2009 11:51 am

BjBnet wrote:

that reminds me.....
I asked the dealer if they had a lifetime alignment package and he laughed at me, he thought I was kidding. He said it didn't exist. I said "OH yes it does....in the States" :lol:

It was a "fun" conversation, the guy was real nice and professional.

I paid $79.99 for my lifetime alignment,granted I work at the store but it is good at any of 2600 stores world wide.

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