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Old 08-01-2012, 10:56 PM
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my jeep has a 4.5 lift already going to be upgrading to a long arm...

will i need to upgrade steering or anything??

will the shocks i have now be ok??

anything else i should spend more money on?
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Shocks will be limiting you. May need sye as well.

I would rather have lockers over a long arm setup
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I upgraded to long arms from a 4.5" lift also. I did not change shocks or steering or anything else. My shocks actually do limit my flex slightly. Im going to change out the shocks as soon as the funds allow. What do you have and what are you going to?
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i installed an sye yesterday just waiting on the driveline...

i bought it with a tough country lift....

installing a clayton long arm upgrade

i thought i might have to upgrade shocks but i can do that when funds allow it
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Originally Posted by Macknjack
Shocks will be limiting you. May need sye as well.

I would rather have lockers over a long arm setup
lockers will come in time


hey i know you
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Nice! I love clayton. Thats what I have. Its beast
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Originally Posted by mehoff_400
lockers will come in time


hey i know you
Lol to funny, I guessed the name was jack but didn't pay attention to location.

You get the sye all done?
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Yep... i finished it up today added fluid and put the front driveline back on... everything went smooth.. just waiting on the rear driveline from tom woods
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Nice! I love clayton. Thats what I have. Its beast
How was it to install?? Mine is already lifted so just the arm and cross member to install it looks pretty easy to install
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It was not bad to install. I had my 4.5 lift when I did my install too. Its pretty straightfoward. Just gotta cut off the old brackets and weld on the new crossmember. Easy beans
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