Reasonable Clevis Lift Amount

Rocco Bones · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 12:00 am **Posts:** 3

I'm about to finally do some real work to my 04 Liberty, took some time to gather all the parts and do some reading up on what is what.

I am installing the 2.5 " Skyjacker Coilover Lift with the Platinum rear shocks. I would like to do a clevis lift while I have all the parts disassembled. After doing some reading in here I am leaning towards doing a 5/8th inch clevis lift. Is that safe? Can u secure it so it wont slip? I want to fit 265/75r16 revos after this is done and would like to get it as high in the front as I can safely do so. Also, has anyone done a clevis lift and then wanted to raise the rear so it slopes forward again compensating for the clevis. I was thinking of putting in some coil spacers, but not sure if they will work or which height?

Thx for anyone's help.

hoss75 · **Posted:** Mon Aug 08, 2005 7:46 pm

I don't know for sure but 5/8" maybe be pushing it.. the problem here is your CV joint angle.. the higher you go the worse it gets, and Skyjacker (at least in the early days) had a problem with this without any clevis lift at all. As for making the rear higher again, I personally like the look better with it leveled out.

Guest · **Posted:** Mon Aug 08, 2005 8:13 pm

hoss75 wrote:

As for making the rear higher again, I personally like the look better with it leveled out.

I totally agree.

Btw hoss, did your Rusty's lift level the KJ?

hoss75 · **Posted:** Mon Aug 08, 2005 9:07 pm

Hammer wrote:

Btw hoss, did your Rusty's lift level the KJ?

I did a 3/8" clevis at the same time I installed the lift and it ended up level.

Rocco Bones · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 12:00 am **Posts:** 3

hoss75 wrote:

I don't know for sure but 5/8" maybe be pushing it.. the problem here is your CV joint angle.. the higher you go the worse it gets, and Skyjacker (at least in the early days) had a problem with this without any clevis lift at all. As for making the rear higher again, I personally like the look better with it leveled out.

thx for the info. will probably do the lift 1st then see if there are any problems before doing anything with clevis, if at all. better safe than sorry i guess.

Skyjump136 · **Joined:** Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:50 pm **Posts:** 1633

Doubt you'd need (or want) any additional lift with that kit...

Spike6901 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 10, 2005 8:16 am

My clevas lift didn't hold after two attempts so I finnaly just did away with it. I would wheel good and hard the first post lift and post clevas lift just to make sure it will hold for you before adding the rear spacers. I did a 1/4" clevas and it leveled the KJ out really nice. Too bad that is gone.

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

I've never had a problem with a Clevis lift not holding. I do torque it down pretty tight, but haven't had any problems yet. Knock on wood.

RockinKJ · **Posted:** Wed Aug 10, 2005 10:39 am

If you want a clevis lift that won't slip just use 2 1/2" conduit locknuts as spacers. Each locknut is about 1/8" thick and you can easily stack two for 1/4", three would pobably work too, but I haven't tried that. The locknuts are available from Home Depot and others at about a buck for a package of 2, and they fit nicely over the ends of the struts.

Reasonable Clevis Lift Amount

Who is online