MJ rti and lift

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I sent the MJ up the RTI today now that the 4wd is fixed and here is how it did after a slight roll back. I will see if I can put the Rusty’s LCA and 6" skyjacker coils then SOA the rear. If it looks like it’s going to be to high for now I’ll just swap a set of 6 cyl stock XJ coils in with 2" polly spacers and some new shocks. It's a poor 4cyl with no power and I won't have the 4.56 gears out of the XJ until I do the 44-axle swap. So I'm going for flexy and not big rubber. It's a budget build and that’s what I have. After the gears maybe 33" MTR's that I have here. I'll be getting 39" Irok on the YJ and the XJ is going to 35" so I'll have 9 33" MTR's that are new. I will also have 8 30" mud rovers. So they might go on the sand buggy. But I'll stay with the 30" ones for a bit and I'll have two spares with me on the trail. Wait to see the bed cage build up later.

Here is a photo of a stock MJ on the RTI.

 

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I put the 6" coils I took out of the XJ into the MJ and it's too much for right now. The longer shocks I had are too short and I need a new track bar. So I was going to do the SOA in the rear Sunday but I think I will swap out the 6" coils for the stock coils and 2 inch spacers until I get more parts saved up to do the 6" lift.

 

I swapped the 6" coils out for the stock MJ coils and 2" polly spacers and it sets nice and level with 30" tires on it. I have some longer shocks for the rear I'm going to go put on and then see how the flex has changed. I picked up a track arm relocate bracket form a friends TJ lift never used. Not sure if I need it yet or not now that the 6” coils are back out. The longer rear shocks helped out some. The longer shock let the rear sag just a hair since they don’t push back out like the short ones did, but they offer much more rear drop.

 

Before:

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After:

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As you can see I gained a good bit of flex and it all cost me $0.00!

All left over parts. I also removed the under bed spare tire mount to help ground clearance and save weight. Add greaseable bolts to the leaf springs. The rear bumper came off. Not sure if I’m going to mod it or build my own. Next on the list of things are longer brake lines. The rear brake line is really short and hangs up the rear drop. A set of rear XJ lift shackles, as the MJ’s stock shackles are longer then XJ’s so I will get about .05 inch out of them.