DDfammobile

ok so i know i need to put the body on jack stands so i can drop axle to do the shock and spring. my question is where to put the stands?i dont wanna break anything lol. doing the front first then the rear leafs and shocks later/tomorrow so both front and rear stand points would be great. thnks

sportrider

if your doing a short arm lift put the stands on the uniframe behind where the LCAs bolt on.

DDfammobile

shes bone stock. hopefully that works. thanks. assuming i can bring the front end up from the front diff?

EASTCOASTXJ

Yeah just put the stands under the unibody and you can jack it up from the front axle. Hope this helps.

DDfammobile

thanks. front is done. rear leafs and shocks tomorrow. any suggestions for that?

96rokee

same thing as the front jack up from axle
stands under unibody as far as possible. probly right in front of the leaf spring mount @ frame.
and then nothing to it but a few bolts at that point.

fitnessXJ

Hopefully you have been spraying the bolts with some pb blaster. The upper shock bolts tend to be a PITA. I ended up having to torch the bolts off then air chisel them out. Good luck!

number9

I just started to install my rear springs last night. The front rear leaf bolts were a PITA to say the least. I've been spraying every bolt I think I may touch for the lift with Liquid Wrench for the last week. All of the bolts on the rear came off ok with an impact, but the front bolts in the leaf springs, the impact wouldn't budge. I used a 1/2" breaker bar with a long extention to get the bar outside the body, supported it with a jackstand, used a 2' long boxed end wrench as a cheater and stood on it.

Passenger side bolt came out popping and screeching the whole way.
Driver side bolt came out about 1/2" and is corroded to the bushing sleeve. I googled to see what people do in this case and I ended up cutting the bolt in two just inside the hanger with a 4" angle grinder cutoff wheel. Then I cut the leaf spring in two right at the eye where the bushing is at. This evening I'll work on cutting the leaf eye off the bushing and getting the bolt out.

When the new bolts go back in, they are going to have a metric **** ton of anti seize on them, I know that for sure.

Hope you have better luck getting yours out.
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serountree

I am on the end of doing the same thing right now, hope you don't have what happened to me hit you! Both bolts got stuck, passenger side in the bushing, and the nut on the driver side broke loose, both on the front leaf spring mount. Ended up replacing both forward leaf spring mounts with Syngergy Suspension's XJ Leaf spring brackets.... this was SUPPOSED to be a simple lift kit installation over a couple of days. Two weeks later.... Now I just need to somehow get the leaf springs to reach the rear shackle. Good luck on your lift!

ryan8551226

I had better luck putting rear shackle on the leaf springs when they were still off the jeep