As anyone had or experienced any problems after installing a lift kit on their xj? I hears after a 4" u gotta start getting longer driveshaft and ball joints and other suspension parts start to give.
Any comments my friends?

 

After I got my 3" RC lift my rear leafs were "moaning" but since then stopped.

 

The only problem I've has is I do not have enough time to go wheeling as much as I would like !

 

4.5 RC lift.
No money for wheels and tires

 

Lol where to start...
Sheered steering box bolts/cracked frame
Blown tie rod
Sheered balljoints
Because of the above torn brake line and sheered off axle shaft along with destroyed steering stabilizer.
Stripped ring and pinon in front axle.
Bent up rear drive shaft
Torn off lower shock stud on rear axle.

 

Pretty much just the death wobble. Ujoints were complaining until I dropped the Tcase.

 

Good god man, I hope your experience is the exception.

 

Some wobble, lowered the x-case a little, helped a lot.(3" pro-comp, new springs, no blocks, no add a leafs)
Biggest problem is the rear/upper shock mount bushings popping out when I'm playing/flexing it hard. I don't do any "hard core wheeling", to speak of, but I find myself flogging a creek bank every now and then, climbing over blow downs and sech, when exploring the river bottoms. I like to get back,,way back, out the way some times.
Haven't done any searches yet. I would like to find a cure, though.

 

RC lift 4 years and its been pretty problem free. Except the bushings in the new lower control arms wore out after 2 years. RC wouldn't warranty them, but did give me a really good deal on new "updated" ones that seem to be holding up good so far. Just the usual wear and tear as the miles start adding up on the stock joints and bearings

 

Once you lift it, you wheel it more, and you break more stuff. Plus, once you get a lift, theres always something to upgrade.

All of this stuff sounds like it happned on a trail, not on the road. If this happened on the road, theres a good chance he wouldent be talking to us.

 

iv gone thru 1 front axle u joint and 1 driveshaft u joint blown out 1 lr shock had to rebuild my t case had to replace my motor had to re gear to 4.10s wile i was at it i swapped in a 8.8 disk brake lsd rear axle with a truss on it and had to put shackle relocation kit on rear just to find out my pro comp rear leaves wer junk after 2400 miles and wer sagging worse than my aal set up was oh yeah had to fix my unibody wear the steering box mounts it was cracked all to hell

 

only issue i had was vibes..did a tc drop and got rid of most of it but after about a year i had a motor mount go out...put new one in had REAL bad vibes...replaced both fronts a littler better..replaced trans mount still had vibes...took the shims and the t case drop out and bingo PERFECT no vibes...soooo those of you that lift a jeep and get vibes...may want to replace all your mounts before doing a t case drop...just a thought
Cameron

 

I've got a huge problem of chicks trying to date me since I lifted my xj. It's a pandemic!

 

Yea, same here. More then one occasion I had to pick them up and put them in the jeep cuz they didn't know how to climb in!

 

Death wobble and a strange clunk from the front end when hitting bumps while turning at RANDOM times.

I have had it on a hoist and pried against everything to check for play, and i just can't figure it out.