I think I may have the opposite situation going on. I do not have a body lift, but my steering shaft is very high in the firewall hole and no matter how much lithium grease I put on there, it still moans during turns.
There were a few other things installed from the PO that leads me to believe the Jeep may have been lifted in the past, and I'm wondering if I have a Riser Bracket installed already, and since I don't have a lift it's causing the steering shaft to be too high.
Looking at M.O.R.E.'s site, it lists the following dimensions (I have a 1998 4.0L) that they describe as "The base mount to center of steering shaft":
- BLTJ97SBK-4 is 4.3" tall
- BLTJ97PBB is 5" tall
- BLTJ97SBK is 3.68 tall
Seems that #1 is for the 2.5L, 4 Cyl, and #3 is for the 4.0L, 6 Cyl. I can't figure out what #2 is for.
Last night, I measured mine and was getting about 4.5" (it was installed, so that's not a perfect measurement, but damn close). Seems pretty close to the 2.5L version.
So, for those of you that still have a stock bracket from a 4.0L laying around,
what is the OEM dimension supposed to be? Below is an example of the measurement I took (top of the bottom side of the bracket, to the middle of the shaft).
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