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- From: dhepner@cup.hp.com (Dan Hepner)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech,rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Lifting a JEEP Wrangler?
- Message-ID: <Bw1875.HA5@cup.hp.com>
- Date: 12 Oct 92 23:35:29 GMT
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- From: q1hl@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Nameless CS Student)
-
- >>On jeeps with the spring below the diff, it is possible to move it
- >>above.
- >
- >PLEASE SAY WHERE I CAN GET THIS KIT! I've been searching *forever*
- >for a spring mount conversion to put my springs ABOVE the axel, but
- >most off-road shops just look at me like I've got 2 heads or
- >something.... I know they exist, but where? (I have an '88 Jeep
- >Wrangler/YJ) Please send MAIL, as the newsgroups sometimes scroll
- >between reads.
-
- Well, I looked too, and didn't see any kits. So one begins
- to wonder why, it must be because some of the problems just
- aren't addressable by bolting things around.
-
- There is however a market in differential housings shortened to Jeep
- length, which were originally designed to be used spring-on-top.
-
- >The drive shafts
- >(front and rear) are both telescoping,
-
- Large lifts can exceed the angle beyond which a U-joint will
- not function properly.
-
- and the steering shouldn't
- >require more than a simple adjustment to re-center the wheels- the
- >Jeep steering seems *designed* for high-lift use:
- >Chris.
-
- The parts suppliers seem to think that if you lift your Jeep
- more than 4", you will need a different pitman arm.
-
- Dan Hepner
-