henry9419

I'm looking for shackles to gain 1.5 inches maybe 2 inch to go with my 2.5 leaf packs, I see a lot of shackles sold as 5 or 6 inch eye to eye and I was wondering how that translates to lift? Also what's so special about the boomerang shackles? What shackles would you reccomend?

Lowrange2

Stock XJ shackles measure 3.25" from bolt to bolt.

But with a good shackle you can't just assume a 5" shackle is going to give you a 1.75" lift. I'd grab a set that have more than 1 setting on them but don't get the cheap looking thin ones. They bend rather easily.

Boomerang shackles allow the shackle to travel farther before coming in contact with the shackle hanger.

henry9419

I was looking at the re boomerangs to pair with 2.5 full packs I got, gonna be 3.5 re coils up front so wanna get the rear at least as tall or should I get re 3.5 full packs since the 2.5s I got are dads old ones?

Lowrange2

That doesn't sound like a bad plan you have there.

I'd choose new 3.5 packs over old 2.5" packs with a shackle.

henry9419

Its just cost difference ATM lol and the fact that im only on 31s and I cut my fenders already, but I wanna go to a hp44 and 8 inch with 37 pbrs eventually

Lowrange2

I could run 37's on my 5 inch lift.

henry9419

How's the fender clearance? I think with right bumps I could do it

henry9419

I mean 9 inch lol

Lowrange2

Not even close up front. The rear bumps keep it half an inch off the body. That leaves me with about 4 inches of up travel and plenty down.

If I went to 37's I'd just cut some more of the rear sheet metal out. Not a lot.

You can sorta see it in this picture. It's not all the way on the bump but it's close.



9" lift?!

94XjSport94

No he meant HP44 and a 9" rear

Lowrange2

Oh, wow. I read that completely wrong from the beginning.

I read it as "HP44 with a 8 inch lift and 37" PBRs."

Whew, I thought we were going to have another 11inch lift thread going on.

henry9419

Noo staying as low as possible so gonna look at the 3.5 leafs then, staying short arms for a while

Lowrange2

Gotcha.

In that picture is 44/8.8 35's on ~3" BS wheels and old saggy Rusty's 6" leaf springs and coil springs. Sagged down to about 5"s.

Lowrange2

and on flat ground.



I miss wheeling. I need to get this thing back together.

henry9419

That thing looks awesome, I wanna keep my shiny Rubi wheels so I'm probably gonna be running spacers, getting adjustable re uppers and superflex lowers along with 3.5 coils from a friend then gotta see about shocks, gonna do that on the hp30 and the c8.25 for now