can anyone out there give me some sound advice on what I need to do to make clearance for 32X10.5s? I want to do everything I can to make the steering bulletproof. As far as the lift goes, Im open to any suggestions. Even coil spacers and add a leafs. I just want most of my gound clearance to come from the 32X10.5s. Thank Yall for any help.

 

You can probably trim the fenders enough to clear but you are going to trim quite a lot. If you dont want to cut then you need a 4.5" lift

 

Get a 2in budget boost with coil spacers and shackles, then get V8 zj front coils make a small bastard pack (about 2in of lift or so) with a little triming and they should fit.

 

Who makes that kit? Ive been looking @ Rustys, but theres some bad press out there.

 

Check out www.roughcountry.com daily they are having their year end price reduction sale.Every day they offer a different item at a reduced price.

 

Thats A lot of money youve spent. I bet you dont get stuck. Is it your daily driver?

 

For 32s, you'd need at least 4.5" lift if you don't want to trim the fenders, with tires no wider than 10.5. You'll have to go a little higher if you get wider tires. There's also wheel backspacing to consider, depending on tire width.

For steering, first thing to do is get a new steering brace, they cost about 30-35 bucks. See here: https://www.cherokeeforum.com/f51/c-...rt-brace-9274/ It replaces the cast aluminum spacer between the frame and the steering box. Next up for steering, is beefier tie rod ends, and tie rod/draglink.

It all depends on how much you want to spend, and how high you want to go. The more you spend the better junk you get. If you're going to be doing a lot of off-roading, get good stuff up front. If only occasionally, then you can get away with cheaper stuff. When you get into more than 3" lift, the suspension geometry starts to matter: things like control arm angles really affect the handling. You'll need a longer trackbar, too. And longer shocks.

I like the expedition-type trucks road/off-road use, so I went with a 5" lift (DPG-offroad's RE Hybrid kit) and 32X10.5 (actually they're 265/75/16) tires on 5" backspacing. These fit just inside the stock flares (on a 99).

Also, for anything bigger than 30" tires, you might want to consider re-gearing. For 31/32s: 4.10 gears, 32/33: 4.56 gears is about right. 32s fall into either gear zone, but if you've got an auto tranny, the fourth gear is tall, so I'd go with 4.56.

If you foresee in the future that you might upgrade the front brakes to bigger calipers (it's a common mod) and you haven't yet bought your tires, you might want to go with a 16" rim right away. 15" won't clear the bigger calipers. A nice thing about going to 16", you get a lot more choice in tire size/width.