ok feel bad for making a new thread but i cant find a good thread already... can someone direct me or give link to an existing thread of a step by step with pictures instructions on how to do a 3" lift yourself...Greatly Appreciated

even better if its a 3" rough country lift kit

 

are the directions that they gave you not through enough? just use this if they didnt give you any http://roughcountry.com/install/1623.pdf

 

BE PATIENT!!!!!!!!!!!! take your time and its really not that hard.

 

pb blaster everything starting 2 days before planned install

 

Step one, remove shocks
Step two, disconnect sway bar
Step three, drop axle 'til coil spring can be pried loose
step four, install new springs
Step five, reconnect swaybar with extended links or leave it disco'd
Step six, install new, longer shocks
Step seven, remove rear shackle and hanger bolts (if you're lucky and they don't break off/spin the nut inside the "frame")
Step seven point five, scream, swear, and cuss at the bolts that broke off or spun the nuts inside the "frame"
Step eight, PB blaster and wait a week, soaking with PB every day
Step nine, remove bolts
Step ten, remove u-bolts around axle
Step eleven, remove leaf springs
Step twelve, install new leaf springs
Step thirteen, NEW u-bolts, lots of anti-seize on hanger bolts
Step fourteen, reinstall tires and check for fitment.
Step fifteen, install new rear shocks.


Or you could start with the PB Blaster for a week or better before hand and skip 7.5.

 

Or you could just use an impact wrench and be done in a few hours.

 

1. Go to the front page (with all the different forumsubcategories).
2. Click "XJ Write-ups" sub-category for "Technical Write-up/How to"
3. Go to the "Last page" (# 4)
4. Click on the thread: How to install a lift on a XJ *All read*

Hope that Helps,
s

 

Hopefully the impact takes the WHOLE bolt out and doesn't break it off inside. This is the reason for the PB a few days to a week before hand. If you live in a dry climate (or your rig did at least) the PB is probably unneccessary, but up here in the rust belt it's your best friend.

 

I must have gotten lucky, then. Every single bolt came out quick and clean as a whistle with the impact wrench. The only bolts we didn't use it on were the upper shock mounts for the rear shocks, and only because they were rusted to the point where it made more sense to cut the floor open and just air chisel them out. And I live up in New Hampshire...we know our rust.

 

Yup, you got lucky. My 97 came apart fine, but my 93 I just let the bolts break, I'm not using those mounts again anyway.