How much lift do I need for 35s?
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Excellent... I had the Falcons in my cart. Outboard the rear shocks???
Yes, it looks like this. It gets the shock up higher away from the rocks and you can also run a longer shock getting a little more up travel and usually a lot more down travel than stock. I believe it also tends to improve the on road stability feel of the Jeep. But I’m unsure how much of that is the outboarding and how much is the tuned shocks.
As far as the front, I’m not totally sure what is entailed in running a longer shock up front. A new shock mount for sure but I don’t know the details of it. But you could outboard the rear and run the fronts in stock as well.
Outboarding should give you greater travel in both directions if set up properly. Shoot for 6" in either direction. Mine is 7" up and 5" down. Fronts will require a new tower, or lopping off part of the existing tower and extending it. @rasband recently put 11s on his.
Check this bloke out to see what the outboarding entails. Don't mind the useless goons helping in the video.
Follow BFH Garage on Youtube. He has a lot of good tech info in his videos.
Check this bloke out to see what the outboarding entails. Don't mind the useless goons helping in the video.
Follow BFH Garage on Youtube. He has a lot of good tech info in his videos.
The jeep in the video is a POS.
In case anyone wants to see what's involved for the front:
https://wranglertjforum.com/threads/rocky-mountain-billy-goat-build.14166/page-62#post-1031011
I think @starkey480 is looking to do the extended stock tower route soon as another approach.
Typically you get more up travel because the shock body is raised higher, which allows you to build for 50/50 travel. The wider stance on the axle and at the frame would increase the amount of leverage any shock would have to mitigate body roll. A good tune would only improve upon that.
It only takes 3 1/4 inches to put 35’s on your Jeep…
YEP those steps look like cheese graters
I have a set of Poison Spider Ricochet Rockers waiting at the powder coater.
4" short arm suspension with 1.25 body lift, Fox Series 2 or Teraflex Falcon 3 shocks and a 4" premium short arm lift from Claytonoffroad ?
Here is what you Jeep will look like 4”Currie springs, short arm, 1 1/4” body lift, 35x 12.5 x 15” wheels. I can send you some pictures of how to fix the PS rockers to get the, off the body mounts before you powder coat.
02GreenTJ
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Would you mind sending pics of what you did to your rockers or posting them up here? I've been running a set of PS sliders for years now
On all the outboard talk, that’s a pretty significant upgrade.
Plenty of bolt on shock options, black max or Rancho 5000x are cheap and well regarded here.
Clayton makes good stuff but the Rockjock 4” lift with Johnnie joints on both ends are better (double adjustable a if you have the money).
Lots of people have metalcloak stuff here but their springs don’t have the best travel bias for our rigs. Their double adjustable control arms have some marketing hype but have replaceable joints with decent flex and don’t require grease.
Plenty of bolt on shock options, black max or Rancho 5000x are cheap and well regarded here.
Clayton makes good stuff but the Rockjock 4” lift with Johnnie joints on both ends are better (double adjustable a if you have the money).
Lots of people have metalcloak stuff here but their springs don’t have the best travel bias for our rigs. Their double adjustable control arms have some marketing hype but have replaceable joints with decent flex and don’t require grease.