both are still pretty bad potato tomato


I'd rather go with a zone 4.5. at least that company doesnt try to offer a 6.5" short arm lift

 

"that's not necessarily a bad thing. less body roll, harder to bottom out. just needs some bilsteins to go with and you're in business"

Especially if you like the way low riders ride and want to hang corners like a sports car.

Rusty's seems to have good springs and better spring rates. You can get away without a SYE for as long as you need. You just need to lower your tcase a bit and shim your rear axle. I am at 3.75-4.5 rear depending on fuel and have gone almost two years without. I even had the rear shimmed wrong for a year with minimal wear. If youre heavy off roading etc and going over stuff where absolute clearance is an issue then by all means a SYE is a must. Also do some research on shocks and dont just think the kit shocks are right for your application. The Zone coils plus their nitro shocks was a horrible choice for me, I didnt do much research and was letting a long time shop guide me. Another mistake.

Whatever you choose will work but the more research you do and the more you understand the better your end result will be. Our Jeeps are not very complex and easy to mod.

Gluck.

 

I totally agree! I'm looking at Currie springs for more rate and stiffer ride.
Seems most folks complain about the ride of 3.5" so I wanted to let them know that it is not just the brand causing a rough ride but the design/specs.

 

3/4" drop from a full tank? That is a soft spring pack.

 

Buy Deaver leaf springs and PAC coils or Deavers and be done

 

Do you know anyone that runs the PAC racing springs? I like the specs on them, just not the price.
$100 each from Jegs.
I already have BDS leaf springs. 7 leaf with military wrap.
http://www.racingsprings.com/Jeep-Sp...prings/sku/301

 

I think that Ccooper or whatever on here runs them, but he doesn't wheel it or romp it on the beach like you.

I think they'd be a good spring.

 

I've been running my 3" RC lift for a lil over a year now and still sit exactly at 3". Plus its a aal because the PO had just put in new leafs. I beat the **** out of it and drive it hard on and offroad. 0 sagging as of yet. I do plan on upgrading the springs to metalcloaks dualrate coils all around when I four link and axle swap.

 

The Metalcloaks coil springs are 'dual-rate' and are taller than most to prevent the coil from unseating. PAC springs are progressive.

 

Might as well buy the RK tripple rate ones.

Deaver FTW.

 

3 leaf bastard pack. Xj main s10 main 2nd s10 second 3rd. For what I do it works.

 

which is really nice when you're not interested in running sway bars. if you run good shocks, stiffer coils are muy bueno

unless you're running really nice tuneable shocks I wouldn't go with quite that expensive of a coil up front. my deavers are something ridiculous like 280/xx lbs progressive and my 5100's and crappy bumps aren't good enough to hang with the deavers. I'm actually a firm believer that coil spring doesn't matter quite so much for your daily crawler. just a whatever rusty's/clayton/RK/rubicon any coil really that is 180-240lbs is going to be fine. decent shocks and long arms are going to be the key to comfort

can't speak on leaf springs though. but I know that upgrading to bilsteins was still the biggest difference I ever noticed.

so in conclusion, if anyone wants my 5.5" deaver coils I will trade straight across for some claytons

this is almost an exact cut and paste of a post you had in another suspension thread. still 0 photographic evidence..

 

Flexes well. All suspension is stock except springs and shocks.


Dont really take a lot of pics of my self on the trail.

 

Well it's like I said earlier, the company offers a control arm drop kit, which I run, and it's a very non-squirrelly ride.

From what I've heard, I'd take Rough Country over Zone. They simply suck.

Really though, I think the Rough Country kits just have a lot of unnecessary bad rap. The comment earlier about not being able to rock crawl with a Rough Country kit wasn't really true. The TBAJA officer I'm friends with runs Rough Country's short arm kit and he does just fine:

 

Zone is made by BDS suspension.
http://bds-suspension.com/