I made a trip to the Pull A Part yesterday and decided to pick up a set of T-Bird coil springs. I read the thread about parts you can use from other vehicles for a budget Cherokee build and figured I would give it a shot. The T-Bird springs are way thicker than the stock springs are (picture below). I swapped them out today and gained about 3 1/2" but ran into one issue. I forgot to grab the top plate from the T-bird strut. The T-Bird springs are wider at the top and fit around the stock insulators instead of on them. Which brings me to the next part. I road tested it and instantly got death wobble around 50 mph. I have never had death wobble before this. I had the front end aligned about a month ago so I do not believe the alignment is the issue. I am going to buy some t-bird insulators and see what happens. I put the stock springs back on and it ran fine again. I also do not have adjustable control arms so I can't adjust everything associated with the lift. Besides the death wobble it lifted it very nice and level. The T-Bird springs are alot stiffer the the stock prings as well. If any one has done this let me know how yours went.

As you can see the T-Bird spring is way beefier than the stock spring


You can see how the coil spring fit arond the insulator here.

 

Any time u change ride height it will drastically change the alg. doesnt matter if you had the alg. done the day b4 the lift, it is definitly out now.

 

Yeah I was reading about that. I put the stock springs back on for now and its not doing the death wobble for now, but I am gonna wait and get all the right stuff then get it re aligned and see what happens.

 

you mean the t-bird "Mcpherson strut top plate", not insulator.


yea you def need those. You have to enlarge the center hole to fit the XJ bumptower and use a couple of these to secure the plate to the coil




See here:
http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthrea...rd+front+coils
http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f11/t...-lift-1190740/

 

Thanks man! Good info!

 

Get some front springs off a 75 to 79 ford f150. Does exact same thing. They are stiffer like the t-birds and gives about 3 1/2" lift, but the are narrow at the top and fit perfectly on the isolator. Straight swap, nothing to fab.

 

I made this adapter to get the Tbird coils to work in my Cherokee, Got 3" of lift with ouut that strut plate!

 

Make sure you get longer sway bar links

 

Help
ive been using a drill press and it aint doin $hit, where did u source that coil adapter plate