Well, yesterday I went out and bought a Garvin Industries Wilderness rear bumper with tire carrier, Rusty's longarms kit with the new crossmember, some jks quick disconnects, and some rear bumpstops. I'll post pictures tonight.

 

Removed rear bumper

 

New Garvin Industries Wilderness bumper with tire carrier.

 

New parts cleaned up, ready to install!

 

Your 31's were rubbing on stock suspension, as in you didn't have a lift yet?

I only ask because I was pondering 31's on 3" without cutting. I hope I don't have to cut.

 

You don't have to buy into it. BUT my 31's only rub the LCA on stock suspension. And I've had my Jeep flexed enough to have back passenger tire 12"+ off the ground.

 

No, my 31's were rubbing on a 3" lift when I turned over a bump and there wasn't much room for articulation unless I trimmed my fenders and removed my flares.

 

4.5" rough country coils compared to 3" zone coils.

 

The crossmember was pretty rusted. Got it sanded, cleaned, and painted. And also compared to stock crossmember

 

First day on it, got the new crossmember on and took the stock arms and 3" lift coils out. New longarms are attached.

 

New springs in

 

2nd day: lift basically done in the front. Still needed to attach track bar and swaybar discos.

 

Time for new shackles. Passenger side came off nicely. New 1.5" teraflex greasable shackles going in.

 

Driver's side was a PITA..... The upper shackle bolt rusted to the sleeve and was just spinning. I decided to try to cut the bolt off on the inside of the shackle bracket frame, but after an hour and 12$ worth of sawzall blades, I only got halfway through the bolt. SO I looked around on here a bit and found another guy with the same problem who actually cut into the shackle to free the bolt. SO that's what I did.

 

First cut.