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Old Oct 5, 2013 | 07:18 PM
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Default Thinking about an Add-a-Leaf? DONT!

CLIFFNOTES : ADDALEAFS SAGGGGG LIKE A BIOTCH.

So like many people on here, ive lifted my jeep. And also like many I tried to do it as frugally as possible. But it came back to bite me. You hear everyone say "Itlll sag" But I thought "Oh I can deal with a little bit of difference in order to save a few bucks" But it gets to the point that it looks terrible.

In This first picture, it was the day I put the lift on. As you can see there it quite a bit of difference, but it wasn't too bad and better than stock.

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Well one year later. the front wheel gap, was 8.5 inches while the rear gap was 5!!! 3.5 inch difference! Are you kidding me?!?
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I finally did a bastard pack to get it pretty close..

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So in conclusion : don't go the cheap route on the rear springs.

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Old Oct 5, 2013 | 08:17 PM
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Was it a short add a leaf?

My long add a leaf has been almost two years now and is working great.


New spring are always better. Well......unless they are crap ones that are too short and cause you to buy a relocation kit or just bad shackle angle. LOL

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