Im looking at this lift kit and was wondering if the add a leaf is good or should i keep saving and get a whole leaf pack?

http://www.roughcountry.com/jeep_xj_3x.html

 

how bad are your current leafs? i would get the full pack personally vs an AAL

 

dont get aal if you dont want to keep adding leafs

 

Yeah if your leafs are still good and not sagging then you are ok with aal's. My 3" aal's still give me 4" almost a year later.

 

x2.

 

same with the ones on my ranger. a year later i went for more lift and traded someone them to go on his ranger. a year later his truck still sits at 5" in the back vs stock. (made a bastard pack with my old ranger leafs his leafs and the AAL)

 

Add a leafs are never ok and always a wast of $!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

according to who? guy i wheel with has been on the stock XJ leafs and a rough country AAL for 3 years now no sagging. its running shackles now and it still isn't sagging.

 

IMHO, AAL are never my first choice. Been down that road and will never again. You have to have a good leaf pack and hope from there. If it was me, I would just save up and buy the whole leaf pack from the get go.

 

According to the 16 people I know who have tried them. Why do you think your friend now has shackles? You know what? Try them out, wast your money and then you will find out that I am right. One leaf with more arch will only temporarily change the arch of the rest of them. Come on man just think about how it works and if it will really work at all? You really think one leaf will correct the arch on 4 or 5 ( I forget how meany )? And that add a leaf is only half the length of most of the leafs. I'm no rocket scientist but my cousin with down syndrome can figure this out.

 

Thanks Jake.

 

i had 145k on my heep and did a 3" add a leaf and it did just fine, it was identically as high as the front springs were, no problems, never sagged either.

 

Never sagged. Your XJ stock had the rear 1" higher then the front. Why do you think a 4.5" lift comes with 4.5" coils and 3" leafs????????????

 

Haha those guys at rough country are paying you aren't they.. Nah just kidding but I would agree that saving up 100 more dollars or whatever is definantly a better option if you can but I think that we are just saying that with a good leaf pack, a aal can be a fine and cheaper route to go on; they wouldn't sell it and people wouldn't buy it (to some extent) if it didn't work. Yes many people have had bad experiences with them but we are all just giving our .02 and personal experiences.

 

the only thing saggin here......brutalxj....anyhow, remember that more leafs plus less arch means greater flex...i run that lift with aal for years and it hasnt sagged and i haul way to much stuff with my xj and i wheel every weekend and impress people with bigger lifts and their higher COG