Dude..
Seriously.

You cannot put a body lift on an XJ. Unibody design.

You need to do some serious searching before asking the most simplistic questions. All of the information youve asked could have been found with 2 minutes of using google.

 

While I generally agree with your conclusion in that research is a necessary component in finding information about stuff, I think you have to take into consideration the savviness of all people on this forum.

This is a Jeep Cherokee-based forum. This isn't necessarily a Jeep Cherokee veteran-based forum. How can you expect someone that doesn't know a thing about lifts to know what questions to ask on Google?

I think the user has done the right thing by coming here and asking questions. The main component of research is asking questions. And I'll definitely be patient with his questions and help him find what he's looking for. Let's not be belligerent because we grow tired of hearing the same questions over and over. New people join our favorite hobby every day and they have to start somewhere.

@Etrain:

The Jeep Cherokee is indeed a unibody vehicle and this means that there is no separate frame from the body of the vehicle. This makes it virtually impossible to put a body lift on the Cherokee unless you take some other vehicle's frame and put it under the Cherokee's existing unibody, which is a sketchy and ugly way to do any kind of lift and I wouldn't recommend it.

All lift kits for the Jeep Cherokee are suspension-based. This means longer coils, leaf springs with more arch, or some other method of making the suspension taller like shackles, blocks, or coil spacers.

Since you said you're looking into a 3-inch lift kit from Rough Country, you have two options:

• 3-inch Entry Lift Kit
• 3-inch Series II Lift Kit

I would recommend this Series II lift kit because it comes with better control arms. On the other hand, it's $90 more than the entry-level kit, which you might opt for if you want to keep your lift cheap.

Both kits come with add-a-leafs, which are basically add-ons for your existing factory leaf springs. Rough Country offers whole leaf spring packs for an additional $264, which I would personally opt for, especially if your factory leaf springs are already sagging.

At 3 inches, you really don't need to worry about a slip yoke eliminator, or at least I wouldn't. You should be fine leaving everything how it is, or using a transfer case drop kit if you want to.

With this kit, you can fit 31x10.50r15 tires, and a set of 15x8 steel wheels with 3.75" backspacing will do you nicely.

Hope this helps!

 

i have a zone 3 inch and love it. settled in real nice and the ride is wayyyyy better than stock. its a little rougher yeah but it doesnt lean into turns anymore and takes bumps alot better. Plus the vendor on here gets you a great deal

 

Very well said.

 

I have a zone 3 inch as well and it is really simple and hasn't let me down one bit.