Pete M

I never buy new tires or wheels. :brows: My used set of 33" trxus cost me 300. With rims. I'd sink my money into gears.

15x8s will hold the bead better. What axles are you using? Gearing?

Great. sigh... Guess they haven't quite worked out all the bugs. I have a choice in the forum setup to allow forwarding of messages. It's a choice. But apparently checking "yes" doesn't actually mean yes. :shake: "Item one fifty-one on today's glitch list. We've got all the problems of a major theme park and a major zoo, and the computer's not even on its feet yet."

Be prepared for that nice 2.5 to suck if you're adding bigger tires without regearing. :( And if you're going to 33s, it'll suck a lot.

Friends don't let friends use lift blocks. They will cause major spring wrap issues. If you seriously need more than 6" of lift, add in an AAL (personally I'd go with more MJ leafs added in). And if you're on a budget, why are you going so big? What are you doing for axles? tires? gearing? Steering?

There is a "forward" button located at the bottom of the PM. Why it's not next to the "quote" and "reply" buttons, I'll never know. :dunno:

Great! Then you won't mind driving over to Detroit to install my engine. ;) Oh, and even better, the garage isn't available at this moment so you'll get to do it outside. :rotf:

Be careful with the exhaust, especially with a 2.5L. The stock engine is designed around a certain amount of backpressure. If you free up the exhaust too much, you can gain some top-end HP, but lose a lot of low-end TQ.

Best bang for your buck on the 2.5 will likely be removing the stock radiator fan an installing an electric one. Other than that, gears, gears, gears, gears, but that isn't typically cheap. What axle ratio do you have now? 2wd or 4wd? Tire size?

I misread that and the pig was not the first thing that popped into my head. :shake:

Are you at least swapping the little speedometer gear to keep your odo accurate with the bigger tires?

A-hem :no: But anyways, back to the issue at hand. I seem to remember that all MJs came with the 3 holes for the crossmember, just that the unused ones weren't tapped. Make extra sure you don't have a pair of unused holes under there. :thumbsup:

The weakest part in the entire uniframe is the point between the steering box and the track bar mount. Make sure that it is extra super beefy. It was never designed to have the suspension mounted forward of the engine.

Today I put the new plate tags on the trucks. A day late but whatever. :D

IMO: 20x20 = one car garage I can't imagine losing that 4 extra feet. :( Where will you put your stuff?

Well? :dunno:

Do you have a side shot or an underside shot showing all the ends of the leafs?

I swear you have vehicular ADD. :D

Stuff I've learned with the garage dad built years back (before I was into Jeeps): -before you park anything in it, cover the floor with one of those coatings -insulating the walls and sheathing them in plywood will never be easier -oh, and a ceiling is nice too. Makes it much easier to heat in the winter and cool in the summer -a 20x24 garage may sound big, until you park an MJ in it. 24x24 is the smallest I would ever accept if I was starting from scratch All are things I regret not pushing for off the bat. I just didn't know any better at the time. :(

In the PM page, on the left is an "options" box. In it is a "Rules, folders & settings" link. Ckick it and somewhere near the bottom is a choice of letting the last PM automatically delete when a new one comes in.

I ran into a similar issue (one more leaf than stock) and I believe I just used a slightly thinner grade 8 bolt. Not perfect but it got the job done. :D

How far back do those front mounts go along the frame? I can't quite tell in the pics.

Well, then you've got some reading to do. :cheers:

6.5" is an approximation. You bed will be roughly 6.5" higher than it currently sits, but that's relative to how it is now. If you somehow added a 6.5" puck to the front, then the truck will sit level (assuming it sits level now). But you'll be adding brand new coils to the front. And they are likely to lift the rated amount, but that doesn't mean they will necessarily match your current leafs, which may have sagged a little over the years like mine. Personally, I'd go with a 4.5" to 5.5" lift kit, and if the rear end sits too high, I'd either add a little pick to the front, or throw some crap in the bed like a truck is supposed to have. Bottom line, it's hard to predict how your truck will turn out when using 20 year old leafs. Oh, and the metric/big/heavy ton package sits about the same height as a regular 4wd MJ. But it will better resists settling after you add the big spare tires, gear etc. Also should resist spring-wrap better. :thumbsup:

I assume you've seen this article? http://jeep.off-road.com/jeep/article/a ... ?id=277008