91deathmachine

hey dudes, i picked up on a pair of 3" fabtech lift coils for free from my friends house, i was stoked cuz i thought they were for my cherokee. He then tells me that they were off a wrangler.....so before i start wrenching away at my front suspension, do any of you guys know if i can fit wrangler lift coils on my xj?
thanks

xjmarc

Front coils will work, it's what I'm running, but you won't get as much lift as stated. Mine are 8" and I get about 6" out of them and they are way softer than XJ coils.

jeep bandit

take measurements, compare, then put them in

91deathmachine

oh ok i see what youre sayin, so i wont probably get 3 inches out of em, but they should do somethin? he also has a pair of 10 inch bilstiens that he's gonna throw in, is that a correct length for that spring?

eggdashure

I'm running Old Man Emu coils from a Wrangler. The guy I bought them off of told me they were Medium "weight" for 2 inches on his Wrangler. I doubt he was correct, I managed to get 2.5" out of them so I think they were 3 inch to begin with...works great though!

91deathmachine

ok cool, im just still a little concerned because these wrangler coils look bigger in diameter then my xj coils, anybody had problems with the wrangler coils rubbing on the frame of the xj?

cdawall

nope i am running 4.5" ones on mine right now they are about a 3" lift on it

eggdashure

Just to be sure...these were off the front of a Wrangler...right? The rear coils are much wider and a lot shorter. Otherwise, yea no rubbing issues.

91deathmachine

im not sure, they're 18" by 8"...that seems a bit wide..

91deathmachine

therefore they must be the rears bcz stock xj coils are 18x5 so these wrangler coils wont work..
oh well