I currently love the set-up of my TJ and I pretty much go wherever I expect to and sometimes she even surprises me. She is not a daily driver but drives great (at least to me) on the road and I primarily do rock crawling in the Southeast/Midwest area with dreams to going out west in the next few years. Having said that there is one issue that I would like to correct and that is the tendency to lift the front wheels on climbs. I have had others say to me that my TJ can climb like a goat, but boy does she like to lift the wheels, etc...... and it is an uneasy feeling keeping in the throttle when the front is standing up. I also get a little wheel hop, usually the rocks are so slick in the southeast that when I lose traction it just spins and does not hop, but there has been several occasions where it will get to hopping.
After all my reading on IC and AS, etc..... would a high AS cause the front wheels to lift when climbing steeper hills? It is generally when I am in the throttle a little bit (not pinned, I am still crawling) and the jeep has traction and keeps motoring forward, so it feels like it is torque lifting the wheels. It is generally the front drivers side wheel that is lifting, but it has lifted both. It has done it in obstacles (rocks) as well as just on flat steep climbs.
I currently have a Currie 4" short arm lift (+1" BL), and am very pleased but was wondering if the short arm is causing high AS and causing my wheel lift and slight wheel hop. I have always had a few hundred pounds between people, tools, gear in the back, and I also had a 35" spare tire on the back. I just recently removed the rear spare tire and removed all the gear from the back (don't want to remove people) to try and see if less load in the rear will help, I will hopefully find out this weekend as I will be in Hot Springs ORV park.
My current thoughts have me replacing the short arm with a savvy mid arm in order to try and reduce the AS; however, I don't want to just make a change hoping it will help with the wheel lift and slight hop, especially when I like the current setup.
I know that this forum as well as others all discuss long arm vs short arm vs mid arm and AS, AD, IC, etc...... and I have read most all of them which has me leaning toward the fact that a mid-arm may correct my wheel lifting issue (and slight hop) and allow me to stay on my current 4" lift and 35" tires which is where I am comfortable and want to be for the time being. But again, just don't want to spend the time and money if my thought process if flawed.
After all my reading on IC and AS, etc..... would a high AS cause the front wheels to lift when climbing steeper hills? It is generally when I am in the throttle a little bit (not pinned, I am still crawling) and the jeep has traction and keeps motoring forward, so it feels like it is torque lifting the wheels. It is generally the front drivers side wheel that is lifting, but it has lifted both. It has done it in obstacles (rocks) as well as just on flat steep climbs.
I currently have a Currie 4" short arm lift (+1" BL), and am very pleased but was wondering if the short arm is causing high AS and causing my wheel lift and slight wheel hop. I have always had a few hundred pounds between people, tools, gear in the back, and I also had a 35" spare tire on the back. I just recently removed the rear spare tire and removed all the gear from the back (don't want to remove people) to try and see if less load in the rear will help, I will hopefully find out this weekend as I will be in Hot Springs ORV park.
My current thoughts have me replacing the short arm with a savvy mid arm in order to try and reduce the AS; however, I don't want to just make a change hoping it will help with the wheel lift and slight hop, especially when I like the current setup.
I know that this forum as well as others all discuss long arm vs short arm vs mid arm and AS, AD, IC, etc...... and I have read most all of them which has me leaning toward the fact that a mid-arm may correct my wheel lifting issue (and slight hop) and allow me to stay on my current 4" lift and 35" tires which is where I am comfortable and want to be for the time being. But again, just don't want to spend the time and money if my thought process if flawed.
