Pre and post 4.5" lift and tires with pics

[zomeizter]

31s look great with the lift, I remember someone mention that lift with those tires look ridiculous...I must like ridiculous. 

[Gubachoo]

On 12/17/2017 at 7:30 PM, zomeizter said:

31s look great with the lift, I remember someone mention that lift with those tires look ridiculous...I must like ridiculous. 

 

Thanks, me too. 

Hmm, yeah thats odd. I like it. It's not large by any means. I think its a practical size. I don't have to step up or down to get into it, and the bed is at a perfect working height now. I think those people may be purists who believe it's stock or it's stupid. Either way, it's my truck and I like it. 

[Gubachoo]

On 12/15/2017 at 10:17 PM, Big Dan said:

Well, is this a vehicle you plan on keeping?  Even if you're not, theres only so many left. I just would hate to see it rot completely away, eventually.

 

Yes, I do. I plan on doing the floorpan in the spring, sourcing some doors and fenders from a junkyard cherokee, and then figuring out the bed situation. I travel to the south once or twice a year so am planning on scouring junkyards down there in the hopes of locating one with a bed without, or with much less, rust. I don't mind repairing dinged panels, but this level of rot is just too far to sensibly do anything with. But yes, its has over 320,000 on it now, and I just put 2500 into it, so I plan on it being with me for a long time

[87MJTIM]

There's a decent bed near Winchester VA.  It's a Laredo long bed.  The pictures don't look too bad.

 

That looks like a factory roll bar.

 

[Gubachoo]

On 12/22/2017 at 8:14 AM, 87MJTIM said:

There's a decent bed near Winchester VA.  It's a Laredo long bed.  The pictures don't look too bad.

 

That looks like a factory roll bar.

 

 

Oh man, that is nice... I wish I could get down there right now, but I can't leave my area until april or so. I will just be patient and willing to travel, and hopefully one will be around. How did you find that one?

[87MJTIM]

Private Facebook page.  The guy posted on it.  I cannot link to it unfortunately.

 

There are some other photos I could grab and post.  Most from the front.  One from the rear.  No tailgate sadly.

[gte636p]

I swapped out an 8.8 and did the hell creek 4.5" rear and a long arm front install recently... I redrilled my perches when looking at the axle placement, it was just too far forward for me.  In addition, my shackles were vertical if not slightly sloped the wrong direction.  It's not ideal, I'm not too happy about it, but I'm tired of dealing with the car right now.

 

It's been a while, but I put some 4.5" RE leaves on my XJ and the fit was great from the get go.  The tire was centered in the opening,  the shackle angle remained the same if not better than before (had to switch to boomerang to clear the rear crossmember).  I understand the "it will settle" statements, but my XJ has hardly settled more than 0.5" over 10 years and my cj's are exactly where they were on install... I may be the outlier though?