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Tech Forum => Workshop => Topic started by: Carlos Fandango on March 01, 2008, 09:16:07 PM

Title: XJ 4" lift
Post by: Carlos Fandango on March 01, 2008, 09:16:07 PM

On a 1994 4.0L XJ with a 4" suspension lift does it affect the prop shafts etc ??

my mates all have rangies and lardies and any suspension lift requires prop shaft mods, changed radius arms and all sorts of other stuff, is there anything I should check to see if it has been done before I buy it??

Cheers guys

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Post by: Bishops Finger on March 01, 2008, 09:19:25 PM

Think it will.....others who know more will be along soon...

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Post by: Bubba on March 01, 2008, 09:27:38 PM

no fitted a few lifts no prop mods to date

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Post by: Mike Pavelin on March 02, 2008, 07:41:17 AM

Drive it and if there's a load of vibration from the driveline the rear prop isn't aligned properly.

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Post by: greggmo on March 02, 2008, 09:00:22 AM

as mike said. best thing to do is drive it and see. would be cool to have ya with jeep again mate.

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Post by: wazza on March 02, 2008, 07:48:17 PM

at 4 inchs it will vibe quite a bit!! but you won't need to change it!

when i had a 4.5inch re lift they supplied a set of 3/4 spacers to drop the cross member down and a set of 1.5inch longer shackles to point diff up over. it worked great without a single vibe!!!

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Post by: Carlos Fandango on March 02, 2008, 08:25:56 PM

Its got a 4" pro comp lift, with extended chrome molly A arms??? what ever they are.

I would really like to make it down to ribbo farm for the end of march,  :D

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Post by: greggmo on March 02, 2008, 10:10:57 PM

cool. it would be good o see ya mate.

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Post by: tim_aka_tim on March 02, 2008, 10:11:21 PM

The consensus on Pro Comp lifts is that the springs are bastard hard and the leaves are prone to rotating about the centre pin.

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Post by: The Smiths on March 02, 2008, 10:47:53 PM

:evil:

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Post by: greggmo on March 02, 2008, 10:52:44 PM

its an easy fix though.

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Post by: The Smiths on March 02, 2008, 11:20:51 PM

It's fixed now - but why don't they just make them right in the first place

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Post by: Carlos Fandango on March 03, 2008, 10:38:59 AM

what do you have to do to fix it??

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Post by: greggmo on March 03, 2008, 09:35:22 PM

get some spring straps or a tiny splat of weld right by the u bolts does the trick.

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Post by: The Smiths on March 04, 2008, 12:53:43 AM

Or shim (posh term for steel strip) between the side of the springs and the ubolts

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Post by: chrisjones on March 04, 2008, 08:32:41 AM

I had exactly the same problem with Skyslacker springs, it's not just Procomp that suffer.

I'd love to know where you fit chrome A arms on an XJ though.