It went down this weekend jeep wise. Worked on the Jeep from 8 AM to Midnight on Saturday and 8 AM to 3 AM Sunday to get my Jeep off the lift and rolling. I ended up using a savvy truss, TMR link brackets for the frame side on the top setting (this puts them 1/2 an inch lower or so then savvy). I will measure the exact stretch I ended up with but was shooting for around 5-6 inches. I used Poly Performance towers for my shocks and the shocks are 2.0 12s. Travel bias is 50/50 but the tire slightly rubs the spring under articulation. The internet was right when they said coilovers on stock width axles are tough. I looked through photos of
@L J s Jeep and have concluded that Blaine really is a wizard making those shocks work with 3.75 inches of backspacing and full 12 inches of travel. Still need to finish a few things, but figured I'd throw down some photos. My Jeep is staying semi lower with around 19ish inches to the frame rail. This posed some challenges that resulted in notching the floors and welding in some 3 inch exhaust pipe. I also had to notch the factory crossmember. I must have cycled the axle a hundred times. For anyone doing a project like this I wouldn't recommend the 1 weekend strategy, but with a lift a few buddies and lots of beer it turned out pretty good.
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Next up is take it all apart to paint, exhaust work, bumps, and limit straps. Then I will use the savvy kit for a front three link. I think I'm going to keep it coil sprung in the front until I am ready to stretch the front on wider axles too.
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PS don't judge my welds too harshly still new at that. I did get pretty good with a grinder and air chisel. Cutting off all those brackets was a serious PITA