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Old 10-28-2010, 09:17 AM
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I have a 95' cherokee sport. I want to lift it a good 3 or 4 inchs but dont really want to spend to much but i also dont want to buy crappy parts. Ive been looking at add-a-leaf lift kits but i dont really know to much about lift kits. Any advice? Thanks
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Search "Bastard packs"

that along with rusty's 3" coils and JK shocks will get 3-4" for around $200
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Yea, save up for a good kit tha comes with full leaf packs. Look into Rubicon Express, BDS, or....I Know....Rustys.
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If you're on a tight budget you can look here for ideas. I'm with Diesel though, save up for a quality kit.
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I'm very happy with my self made lift, Its cheap and rides great. Ive driven about 3K miles on it and wheeled a few times. The only thing needed to really make it a really nice ride is control arms and a track bar, which triples the cost of it but not really needed at 3"
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You can use S10 leaf springs (bastard pack) JK rubicon struts and thunderbird springs. It'll run you about $300 and you can get a total of about 4" of lift but you'll prolly run into drive line angle problems.
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I'm very happy with my self made lift, Its cheap and rides great. Ive driven about 3K miles on it and wheeled a few times. The only thing needed to really make it a really nice ride is control arms and a track bar, which triples the cost of it but not really needed at 3"
this will help the track bar prob
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Does that move the track bar to the top side? I'm already set one IRO double shear track bar once i raise it 1 more inch and trade for some control arms
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it set it over closer to the drivers side centering the front axle more
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ah yes and lowers the track bar to stand a better chance of getting hitting by stuff.
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