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Old 12-16-2016, 10:56 AM
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I have a 97 zj Laredo 4 liter with 186000 miles it's on a 2 inch bb now was hearing a lot about the front to rear lift swap, what if any height would I gain over what I already have. Also what would I need to do it.
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If your talking about the coil springs you can put the front springs in the rear but it gives you a 3 and half inch lift.You can buy a lift kit that does it and comes with everything else for 450 bucks http://www.ironrockoffroad.com/10520.html
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If you swap the rear coils out for front coils with the BB your looking at about 5-5.5 inches of lift, if you're taking out the BB in the rear and replacing it with front springs then your looking at about 3-3.5 inches of lift . . if you do the front to rear you may need to buy longer shocks if you dont have them already.
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You'll also need taller coils for the front. And extended front brake hoses and shocks.
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This is my last zj with 2" BB up front and stock 4.0 zj coils in the rear

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And this is the same zj with the RC 3.5 kit under the bb on 33" TSLs

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^^For the bb on top of the 3.5 RC kit i did have to run adjustable track bars and adjustable control arms and i dropped the tcase 1" . . . This is a v8 zj with the 249 tcase

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