What lift kit for my type of use.

krazz1e · **Posted:** Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:10 am

SethX9 wrote:

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simple, recovery gear should be #1. Think about it, if you get stuck what's going to help you, a lift or a winch?

I guess I don't see an item costing at least several hundred dollars as a "simple" recovery item. Simple would be a 60" HiLift jack. Then that $4-500 that would have gone towards a motorized winch could be put towards a lift.

Nine inches of ground clearance (okay nine and a half if you upgrade from 234 to 245 tires) just isn't enough for most people, even those who aren't hardcore, who go out with any regularity. With the stock height you'll be making constant use of those skids even over seemingly tame bumps and stumps.

It's up to the OP of course but I say gettin' that belly off the ground and stiffening the suspension should be priority #1. Manual extraction gear will cost a fraction of the cost of a winch. And you shouldn't be out in the boonies by yourself anyways! Get a tow strap and a 'come along' and you'll be able to do anything a winch can do short of dragging your jeep up the side of a cliff.

my $.02

wait til you get stuck or break-down. That $500 all a sudden is alot cheaper than a 1k tow truck.

SethX9 · **Posted:** Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:04 pm

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Dont forget the hi lift can be used to pull also

What he said...I was referring to the Hi Lift when I typed 'come along' but I can see how the ambiguity crept in as there are non-Hi Lift come alongs.....

krazz1e · **Posted:** Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:57 pm

alright, sure. :roll:

Video Guy · **Posted:** Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:59 pm

Jeepjeepster wrote:

JJsKJ wrote:

FL RENNY wrote:

The dealer said my lift was the same that DC uses on their jeeps out of the factory.

DC does Not lift Jeeps from the factory.
What was wrong w/ your front end that it needed "$3000 dollars worth of front end diff and axle work done"?

Some dealers will put a lift on it before they sell them. I guess thats what they were talking about? And how did a lift do anything to the front axle?

A Jeep dealer near me will only install Skyjacker lifts on any Jeep vehicle they sell. They also install after market. Only problem is they want to charge me $500 in install the spacer lift. Maybe with next year's bonus

Hopefully spacer lifts will be improved by then and come with the larger bump stops they need to keep from breaking struts.

SethX9 · **Posted:** Wed Jul 12, 2006 6:03 pm

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wait til you get stuck or break-down. That $500 all a sudden is alot cheaper than a 1k tow truck.

I never said a winch was useless but....

The OP's already said he's not doing anything heavy..some light trails with a few tricky spots. Based on his own experience he's already identified his own need as being a lift of some sort.

I say your advice to get a winch before a lift of any kind is bad advice. A non-Warn winch will run a minimum of a few hundred dollars and will do nothing a manual extraction device won't do. For that same few hundred bucks the OP could get a decent lift and an extraction device. A Warn winch will run close to a grand.

Winches have their uses certainly but for someone who's doing some light trails to take nature photography a lift is going to provide a lot more day-to-day benefit and a Hi Lift jack will do 99% of what a motorized winch will do.

DJBassman · **Posted:** Mon Jul 17, 2006 3:00 pm

FL RENNY wrote:

Good Luck, but no matter what you do POST SOME PICS!! :lol:

Ok... here is a sample pic of a trial.

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