Purchasing Lift products one-by-one

toy4everyseason · **Posted:** Fri Jun 06, 2014 9:38 am

tommudd wrote:

A front shock is a front shock is.... :roll:

well all are the same stock height or lifted
Ironman front shocks are a little longer but basically all are the same
Just look up what a stock KJ or KK would take and thats it

Don't you mean a front strut is front strut? :mrgreen:

All joking aside, thanks Tom. I wanted to make sure I ordered the correct struts. Would hate to drop a couple hundred on them only to destroy months later.

tommudd · **Posted:** Fri Jun 06, 2014 10:34 am

No we have shocks on the front of the KJs and KKs , although folks call them " struts" they are actually shocks since we have upper and lower control arms . A front suspension with struts does not have a Upper control arm
If its a duck, call it a duck :ROTFL:

toy4everyseason · **Posted:** Wed Jul 09, 2014 2:59 am

Ok most of the parts are ordered or installed, currently I got JBA UCA, JKS front discos, teraflex front bump stops, 1/4 top plates, conduit nuts, OME med rear springs, long iron man rear shocks, OME HD front coils & Blistien front shocks. I think I may need some rear ISOs to balance them out. Hopefully that will get rid of my clunking problem otherwise I'll be redoing the LCA bushings. Good thing I bought a lifetime alignment so I can play around with the height as much as I want. Now I'll have to see if I can even get it out of the garage at that height. :lol:

tommudd · **Posted:** Wed Jul 09, 2014 9:05 am

toy4everyseason wrote:

Ok most of the parts are ordered or installed, currently I got JBA UCA, JKS front discos, teraflex front bump stops, 1/4 top plates, conduit nuts, OME med rear springs, long iron man rear shocks, OME HD front coils & Blistien front shocks. I think I may need some rear ISOs to balance them out. Hopefully that will get rid of my clunking problem otherwise I'll be redoing the LCA bushings. Good thing I bought a lifetime alignment so I can play around with the height as much as I want. Now I'll have to see if I can even get it out of the garage at that height. :lol:

Thats great!! Can't wait to see it ( not being able to back out of the garage ) :wink:

12KK SFD · **Posted:** Wed Jul 09, 2014 9:12 am

I'm piecing mine together right now, too. So far I have top plates, isos and conduit nuts for the clevis spacer. I"ll be saving some money on expenses starting next month so hopefully I'll be able to piece more together.

Gageraid · **Posted:** Wed Jul 09, 2014 12:22 pm

toy4everyseason wrote:

Ok most of the parts are ordered or installed, currently I got JBA UCA, JKS front discos, teraflex front bump stops, 1/4 top plates, conduit nuts, OME med rear springs, long iron man rear shocks, OME HD front coils & Blistien front shocks. I think I may need some rear ISOs to balance them out. Hopefully that will get rid of my clunking problem otherwise I'll be redoing the LCA bushings. Good thing I bought a lifetime alignment so I can play around with the height as much as I want. Now I'll have to see if I can even get it out of the garage at that height. :lol:

Awesome. Has the wife noticed yet? :mrgreen:

toy4everyseason · **Posted:** Wed Jul 09, 2014 6:22 pm

Gageraid wrote:

toy4everyseason wrote:

Ok most of the parts are ordered or installed, currently I got JBA UCA, JKS front discos, teraflex front bump stops, 1/4 top plates, conduit nuts, OME med rear springs, long iron man rear shocks, OME HD front coils & Blistien front shocks. I think I may need some rear ISOs to balance them out. Hopefully that will get rid of my clunking problem otherwise I'll be redoing the LCA bushings. Good thing I bought a lifetime alignment so I can play around with the height as much as I want. Now I'll have to see if I can even get it out of the garage at that height. :lol:

Awesome. Has the wife noticed yet? :mrgreen:

Not yet, she's been too busy complaining how uncomfortable being pregnant is.

Gageraid · **Posted:** Wed Jul 09, 2014 10:38 pm

toy4everyseason wrote:

Gageraid wrote:

toy4everyseason wrote:

Ok most of the parts are ordered or installed, currently I got JBA UCA, JKS front discos, teraflex front bump stops, 1/4 top plates, conduit nuts, OME med rear springs, long iron man rear shocks, OME HD front coils & Blistien front shocks. I think I may need some rear ISOs to balance them out. Hopefully that will get rid of my clunking problem otherwise I'll be redoing the LCA bushings. Good thing I bought a lifetime alignment so I can play around with the height as much as I want. Now I'll have to see if I can even get it out of the garage at that height. :lol:

Awesome. Has the wife noticed yet? :mrgreen:

Not yet, she's been too busy complaining how uncomfortable being pregnant is.

How far along is she? Congrats by the way...
Should be a nice and safe riding vehicle when ya gotta bring her to the hospital for that great moment of your son/daughter being born. :rockon:

toy4everyseason · **Posted:** Thu Jul 10, 2014 1:49 am

Gageraid wrote:

How far along is she? Congrats by the way...
Should be a nice and safe riding vehicle when ya gotta bring her to the hospital for that great moment of your son/daughter being born. :rockon:

She's due Aug 19th so I'm in a bit of a crunch to get this all done well before then. My springs won't be here till Monday so it's going to be next Friday before I can get it all installed.

I'm assuming I'm going to have to loosen the UCA again & retorque them once I get the new system installed?

toy4everyseason · **Posted:** Sat Jul 12, 2014 7:19 am

I got bored & installed the rear suspension. Besides my torque wrench failing & stripping out a sway bar mount stud, it was pretty straight forward.

I do have one concern. I thought the OME springs & 2 extra isos on each side should net 3.5" of lift. I'm only measuring 2.5" of lift. Any threat to adding another iso on each side on the bottom this time?

tommudd · **Posted:** Sat Jul 12, 2014 8:11 am

Not advisable to install a bottom one's on the rear
Springs alone would or should of gotten you 2.5 inches of lift by themselves

tommudd · **Posted:** Sat Jul 12, 2014 8:13 am

toy4everyseason wrote:

Gageraid wrote:

How far along is she? Congrats by the way...
Should be a nice and safe riding vehicle when ya gotta bring her to the hospital for that great moment of your son/daughter being born. :rockon:

She's due Aug 19th so I'm in a bit of a crunch to get this all done well before then. My springs won't be here till Monday so it's going to be next Friday before I can get it all installed.

I'm assuming I'm going to have to loosen the UCA again & retorque them once I get the new system installed?

Why would you want to loosen and retighten the UCAs ?? No need to

Bmxer524 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 12, 2014 12:26 pm

toy4everyseason wrote:

I got bored & installed the rear suspension. Besides my torque wrench failing & stripping out a sway bar mount stud, it was pretty straight forward.

I do have one concern. I thought the OME springs & 2 extra isos on each side should net 3.5" of lift. I'm only measuring 2.5" of lift. Any threat to adding another iso on each side on the bottom this time?

My rear sits at 21.5". Technically 2.5", but the the front gets the full 3.5". Stock the rear is an inch higher because of the rake. The OME econo lift levels out the KK.

toy4everyseason · **Posted:** Sat Jul 12, 2014 7:13 pm

Bmxer524 wrote:

toy4everyseason wrote:

I got bored & installed the rear suspension. Besides my torque wrench failing & stripping out a sway bar mount stud, it was pretty straight forward.

I do have one concern. I thought the OME springs & 2 extra isos on each side should net 3.5" of lift. I'm only measuring 2.5" of lift. Any threat to adding another iso on each side on the bottom this time?

My rear sits at 21.5". Technically 2.5", but the the front gets the full 3.5". Stock the rear is an inch higher because of the rake. The OME econo lift levels out the KK.

That's what I wanted to assume but you know what happens when you do that. :-)r

Thanks for your help.

tommudd wrote:

toy4everyseason wrote:

I'm assuming I'm going to have to loosen the UCA again & retorque them once I get the new system installed?

Why would you want to loosen and retighten the UCAs ?? No need to

My thought was the added lift would preload the UCAs but if it's not necessary you'd be the person that would know. Thanks for the help.

Bmxer524 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 12, 2014 11:34 pm

toy4everyseason wrote:

Bmxer524 wrote:

toy4everyseason wrote:

I got bored & installed the rear suspension. Besides my torque wrench failing & stripping out a sway bar mount stud, it was pretty straight forward.

I do have one concern. I thought the OME springs & 2 extra isos on each side should net 3.5" of lift. I'm only measuring 2.5" of lift. Any threat to adding another iso on each side on the bottom this time?

My rear sits at 21.5". Technically 2.5", but the the front gets the full 3.5". Stock the rear is an inch higher because of the rake. The OME econo lift levels out the KK.

That's what I wanted to assume but you know what happens when you do that. :-)r

Thanks for your help.

tommudd wrote:

toy4everyseason wrote:

I'm assuming I'm going to have to loosen the UCA again & retorque them once I get the new system installed?

Why would you want to loosen and retighten the UCAs ?? No need to

My thought was the added lift would preload the UCAs but if it's not necessary you'd be the person that would know. Thanks for the help.

No problem. My rear looks like she's a little low lately. I gotta go measure again. Could just be where I'm parking at work since I don't notice it anywhere else...

toy4everyseason · **Posted:** Sat Jul 19, 2014 4:15 pm

All done with my pieced together lift but the wife may be on to me. She commented that it looked higher but I convinced her it was just because of the new parts & that it should settle down some. :mrgreen:

toy4everyseason · **Posted:** Sat Jul 19, 2014 4:18 pm

tommudd wrote:

toy4everyseason wrote:

Ok most of the parts are ordered or installed, currently I got JBA UCA, JKS front discos, teraflex front bump stops, 1/4 top plates, conduit nuts, OME med rear springs, long iron man rear shocks, OME HD front coils & Blistien front shocks. I think I may need some rear ISOs to balance them out. Hopefully that will get rid of my clunking problem otherwise I'll be redoing the LCA bushings. Good thing I bought a lifetime alignment so I can play around with the height as much as I want. Now I'll have to see if I can even get it out of the garage at that height. :lol:

Thats great!! Can't wait to see it ( not being able to back out of the garage ) :wink:

I got out of the garage but only had an inch of clearance. If I get roof rails like I want I'll be screwed. It's a good problem to have I guess. :mrgreen:

Gageraid · **Posted:** Sat Jul 19, 2014 8:09 pm

Come on, no pictures? :goink:

toy4everyseason · **Posted:** Sun Jul 20, 2014 7:12 am

Gageraid wrote:

Come on, no pictures? :goink:

I'll get ya some pictures today but right now I think I may have to go back in & remove the conduit nuts. At full extension I'm getting contact with the ucas & springs. It was measuring at 22.5" on the fronts.

toy4everyseason · **Posted:** Sun Jul 20, 2014 10:17 am

Here is a picture with the 3 conduit nuts installed on each shock.

As you can see its a little nose high, measured 22.5" up front and the UCAs were hitting the springs on large bumps so they got pulled this morning. Here is how it looks without the conduit nuts

Its now at 21.5 all around and no more hitting the spring on large bumps. I know as the front springs break in and sag a little I'll probably throw a conduit nut or two on to level it back out.

Purchasing Lift products one-by-one

Who is online