I completely misinformed that dude earlier in this thread, I knew what I was talking about. Just referred to the right part by the wrong name hahaha. My bad.

 

Got a bunch of cool stuff in the mail today, they forgot my sway bar drop though!! Oh well I'll let them know, discos are on my list to get anyway. Now all I need are the proper u bolts.

Check it out, you can include pictures with posts from the cherokee forum app. No more using the computer!!!

 

Here's where the jeep sits now. Under the knife. Working on it before and after work. Im driving a girly-*** mercury cougar for the week.

 

Anybody know how to torque the top bolt to the front shock on the driver side. I was able to get it off with a wrench with ease, but I'm going to have torque the new one back on. I'll need to use a deep well socket to reach over the bolt, but I can't get a ratchet over the top of that socket with the brake fluid reservoir and lines and what-not sitting above it. So there's no way I can get my torque wrench in there. Any ideas?

 

Major update. The lift is done!!! It took me awhile to complete, and struggled though some rough spots, but it is driving once again.

My main issues were getting the coil springs in place, removing the frame mounted leaf spring bolts, and I snapped all the bolts mounting the tops of the rear shocks. All these seem to be common problems. I also broke a hard brake line when installing my rear extended brake line which was just me being a *******.

Took the jeep for its first drive tonight with the lift, and it doesn't like me very much right now. It hasn't been started in two weeks so it grumbled a bit at first, then i started getting bad vibes. Real bad vibes. It's scaring me. I don't think my angles are right, and I have no idea how to fix them.

The kit came with a t case drop and angle shims to relocate the driveline, but I must've done something wrong. My vibes are from 25-35 mph, and sometimes when I let off the throttle I get a sound like I'm dragging something under the jeep. I'm afraid to drive it cause I don't want to cause any damage, and I could use some help if you guys wouldn't mind. Don't just tell me to get an sye, cause I'm working on getting one, and money doesn't grow on trees hahaha. I need a real fix, something to adjust my angles. I just don't know what to do or how to adjust them.

Anyway, here's the jeep how it sits now, I'm gonna try to get the tires and wheels mounted, balanced, and aligned tomorrow. More updates soon.

KCCO

 

Second major update, new wheels and tires are mounted and aligned!! Check it out!!

I fixed my vibes by removing my shims and torquing my shackles more... It seems rustys low balled the specs and some threads on here told me otherwise.

My tires rubbed so much that I lost a flare. So I took them off along with the front bumper plastic. I then trimmed the bottom corners of the front fenders on the back to prevent more rubbing for the time being. I'll trim them entirely soon enough. So I don't have any rubbing at all without flexing for now.

Also, I got my flowmaster super 44 series muffler, the tailpipe is on the way too. I'll be ordering a magnaflow spun cat when I get the chance.


Before and after pictures.

 

Nice jeep! Coming together pretty good!!

 

Love it, very clean.

 

Thanks man!

 

It's not so clean anymore, my tires rubbed so bad that one of my flares ripped of about a half an hour after I took that picture. So I ditched the other one from the front, also ditched all the front bumper plastic trim, and did some very minor trimming just to eliminate the rubbing for on road driving until I get some bushwackers.

For now I have that ugly no flare/no trim look. Bushwackers and new brakelines are next to purchase, then I'll measure my flexing and get some bump stops. It should be trail ready then.

 

Brown Santa dropped off some goodies today. Got me some bushwackers and front bump stops. Extended brakelines should be in the mail tomorrow. I also bought replacement leaf spring plates that you can mount rear bump stops on, still haven't heard anything from the seller though...

Daystar should really advertise these front bumpstops better though, they are wayyyy bigger than they looked online. I figured they would be.

 

Dropped the black box off at the body shop to get my bushwackers installed.

I found that my PO had an accident. There's an ugly rust hole and dent on the rear lower quarter panel on the passenger side. The guy is gonna fiberglass it until I'm ready to cut and fold. Probably gonna get the jcr offroad rear tire carrier bumper that integrates into the cut and fold quarter panel armor mod. It's my safest bet so I don't have to trim the brand new bushwackers.

 

That's not too bad at all... mine's gone from the red line over LOL

 

That's awful man, thanks for cheering me up.

The guy is sending me pictures. He's got the front end done already. Looks sweeeeeet!!

 

Still haven't received my rear bump stop plates, and haven't had another update from the body shop yet. This is a very boring weekend without the jeep....