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Offline bushman67

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XJ lift measurements...
« on: April 22, 2010, 05:45:59 PM »
Anyone with XJ lifts:

Official stock height that I have found on jeep's white sheets for the 96 & earlier XJ is 17.5" front, 17" rear (measured center of wheel to bottom of stock fender flare). +1" if it's the Upcountry model.

I recently did a lift with newly purchased RE 3.5" rear spring packs.... and just using stock shackles. I netted 5" of lift over the stock measurement. Can this be?
What I thought were 3" skyjacker lift coils, have netted me 4.5" of lift (over stock).

Anyone else out there with larger than expected lift measurements?
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Offline bushman67

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Re: XJ lift measurements...
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2010, 05:54:34 PM »
For the hell of it... I would be interested to hear of other's measurements from various lift packages....

Centre of wheel to bottom of stock fender flare (if you still have 'em on).

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Re: XJ lift measurements...
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2010, 06:03:56 PM »
What the hell is a fender flare?

This is common Rob... 3" gets you 4-5"....



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Re: XJ lift measurements...
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2010, 06:17:32 PM »
I have the RE 3.5 and had well over 5 at first and then it settled to about 4
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Offline bushman67

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Re: XJ lift measurements...
« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2010, 06:18:09 PM »
A fender flare is the thing that gets in the way when squeezing past trees.... but also collects rodents at highway speeds for later campfire cookouts.

As for netting more than expected lifts? I'm surprised. One would think an advertised 3.5" lift would do... just that or less... isn't that what products are supposed to do? Under deliver.  
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Re: XJ lift measurements...
« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2010, 11:25:37 PM »
but also collects rodents at highway speeds for later campfire cookouts.



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Offline bushman67

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Re: XJ lift measurements...
« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2010, 09:01:32 AM »
Why Noel... are you fond of grilled road kill? Yum squirrel ...quite good actually. No joke.

Hey... when/where/how shall I grab the cooler from you? I'm at Robin's on Sat wrenching.
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