we only have small rocks.
heres one more at 4.5"

 

Nice pic

 

That dude's shirt combined with that pic is pretty awesome.

 

I likie the look of those rocks. would be fun.

 

I would say do what ever lift height you want... but WHATEVER you do spend your time tweaking it...

if you stick with leaf spring make your that you have a decent shackle angle, around 45° (from the spring face) give you the best combo of stuff and droop...

don't even consider running short arms and drop brackets... you are in long arm territory

on a big lift (8"+) you are going to run big tires... make sure your axles are up to it and by big tires I am talking 37s or better

just understand what you are getting yourself into

 

out here a small lift gets swallowed up at the mud holes.

you need 60-72" tires to get through some of this stuff

 

i understand all of this and all of the necessary measures will be taken

 

You just gonna trim the beejesus out of it?

 

hahah that's how it is around here too...when i was mud racing 4 wheelers, it quickly became apparent that its a lot faster to go across than through the pits hahaha....15 grand later, and we've got a skimmer that barely runs, but when it does, you best hold the hell on hahaha...point being, i was just being a smart *** , as usual haha

 

So you only want to be high in the air, to be high in the air? I mean...I'm not against it, its your rig, its just that its a bit out of date. jeeping has evolved recently, I feel, to build rigs on less lift with more mods. Even some of the biggest build threads on pirate are only on 5" max. if I saw an xj lifted over 8" I would laugh, seems exsessively expensive, and physically limiting. When you want to lift your xj high to be high, you might as well go buy a z71 and go drive around in dirt fields with the "good ol boys".

 

I don't even have bumpstops right now and it doesn't rub how it sits lol
So on 37's I think maybe a little more trimming and some bumpstop and it will be good to go

 

Did you have to trim for 35s? I was just gonna run 32s with my 4.5 lift but now I might go bigger lol.

 

Yeah front is trimmed just over the body line around the wheel well where the flare would go and the rear is cut above the pinch seam then folded under. If your gonna trim go 33 anyway. That's a nice combo.

 

I used to run a 4.5" lift on 32's and rubbed horribly when I got into some articulation. Would Highly recommend some fender trimming! I simply drew a line along the top of my stock fender flares, removed a trimmed along the line. Worked well. I now run a long arm on 35's...no problems with rubbing.

 

Just be careful when trimming the drivers side fender, the windshield washer bottle is right behind the fender, if your not paying attention you may just trim your bottle!