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Well this has been in the plans for quite some time now. I have ALWAYS had an upper link mount (not stock) on my last 2 cherokees but never ended up using them because i already had these radius arms just chillin. WELL I FINALLY DID IT.
a few years ago i ran some numbers in a link calculator, i did some longarm setups and some mid arm setups, some high clearance, some requiring floor modification, some low clearance, etc. And this is what I decided to settle on a couple days ago.
Why the low clearance? because i have never been hung up on my longarms that hung down just as much and went much further back. And if I made them high clearance it would require ripping apart my floor for some decent antisquat numbers. Also i achieved a much flatter control arm angle this way.
full droop
flexin er' out checkin clearances and whatnot, nothing comes in contact with anything except for tires into the fenders, i just need me some bumpstops. oil pan even has about 3" clearance from the truss at full compression (even though the darn thing always hit before)
AIR FLECKS
arm angle at ride height
here is one of the control arms. using 5 year old rockkrawler heims that have NEVER BEEN GREASED and are still tight as a..... "insert something tight here"
ballistic joints on the frame side. those tabs are for the shocks.
the upper control arm just uses 7/8" heim joints with a 5/8" bolt
here is the upper link mount. one cheap trick i have learned for link mounts is go to the harbor freight store and pick up some hitch tubing. it's the perfect width for many heim joints with misalignment spacers, and 3/16" thick. and come with a 5/8" hole, which is perfect for the bolt size i am running.
how she sits now. i'm not sure how much over stock she is, but my guess is 5". weird because the same coils netted me 4" on the old xj. looks like i need to weld some more metal on it.
WHAT do i think?
My last 2 jeeps with the radius arms rode pretty terrible, granted even with the rubber bushings. Then i cruised around with a 3" lift on stock control arms for a few months, and thought it rode pretty nice and I had people who rode with me who were jealous of the ride quality. The road i take to work sucks and my cd player would always skip maybe 20 times on the way to work. Now I coast over those bumps and I can't even tell they are there. I'm still amazed at the difference in ride quality.
NO it doesn't ride like a cadillac, and no jeep does no matter what longarms you put on it, anyone who tells you that is full of crap, but in its current form this is the nicest riding jeep I can remember being in (stock included).
I can't wait to bring it out on the trail.
a few years ago i ran some numbers in a link calculator, i did some longarm setups and some mid arm setups, some high clearance, some requiring floor modification, some low clearance, etc. And this is what I decided to settle on a couple days ago.
Why the low clearance? because i have never been hung up on my longarms that hung down just as much and went much further back. And if I made them high clearance it would require ripping apart my floor for some decent antisquat numbers. Also i achieved a much flatter control arm angle this way.
full droop
flexin er' out checkin clearances and whatnot, nothing comes in contact with anything except for tires into the fenders, i just need me some bumpstops. oil pan even has about 3" clearance from the truss at full compression (even though the darn thing always hit before)
AIR FLECKS
arm angle at ride height
here is one of the control arms. using 5 year old rockkrawler heims that have NEVER BEEN GREASED and are still tight as a..... "insert something tight here"
ballistic joints on the frame side. those tabs are for the shocks.
the upper control arm just uses 7/8" heim joints with a 5/8" bolt
here is the upper link mount. one cheap trick i have learned for link mounts is go to the harbor freight store and pick up some hitch tubing. it's the perfect width for many heim joints with misalignment spacers, and 3/16" thick. and come with a 5/8" hole, which is perfect for the bolt size i am running.
how she sits now. i'm not sure how much over stock she is, but my guess is 5". weird because the same coils netted me 4" on the old xj. looks like i need to weld some more metal on it.
WHAT do i think?
My last 2 jeeps with the radius arms rode pretty terrible, granted even with the rubber bushings. Then i cruised around with a 3" lift on stock control arms for a few months, and thought it rode pretty nice and I had people who rode with me who were jealous of the ride quality. The road i take to work sucks and my cd player would always skip maybe 20 times on the way to work. Now I coast over those bumps and I can't even tell they are there. I'm still amazed at the difference in ride quality.
NO it doesn't ride like a cadillac, and no jeep does no matter what longarms you put on it, anyone who tells you that is full of crap, but in its current form this is the nicest riding jeep I can remember being in (stock included).
I can't wait to bring it out on the trail.
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