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<blockquote data-quote="Mr. Bi-Polar" data-source="post: 431081"><p>Whitesandstitan</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Appreciate the "real" comment and yes it's going to get very real in a few weeks. No, the jeep is not going to see any major off road action. I'll leave the to youngsters. I'm just looking for a better suspension and will withstand the test of time and not have to deal with having to install new steering components every 2 or 3 years.</span></p><p></p><p>Chris</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">We're not going to Heep it, but it will have more gold/zinc accents under the jeep than our neighbors teeth. I am concerned as to over doing it, with golden drag link, tie rod, track bar, upper and lower control arms (front & rear) so I'm going to change it up and avoid the gold sway links as well as the gold shocks. I'm just looking for heavy duty components no matter what color they are.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">With the installation just around the corner, I'll replace the Bilstein damper with another damper of the same make. Then I've not been happy with the rear sway link mounted on the front of the jeep. Even at 8.5 inchs theses link continue to hit the frame when driving over humps etc. I've looked into the factory short links, but this would drop the way bar too far into the negative. Right now, the longer rear link mounted on the front is more than 7% positive. I believe this is due to the years of driving as the coil springs have finally settled.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">In order to correct the sway links or place them in an acceptable comfortable range. I've looked into adjustable links. But again, most of these are already set to 8 or 8.5 inched and I want to avoid this. The issue is I selected a 1.5 lift, but once on the jeep we're in a odd ball range lift height. So I'll have to jerry rig components to get things the way I need them.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">I've selected the Teraflex 4'' center link with rod ends. </span></p><p>[ATTACH=full]117084[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>These have been set to a short link range as compared to other links. I'll be adjusting these links to something around 7 - 7.5 inches which will bring the link angle down or within the Positive / negative range. Plus without all the clunky hardware. So not everything being installed on the jeep will have a gold or zinc tint to it. The Bilstein dampers is silver also.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mr. Bi-Polar, post: 431081"] Whitesandstitan [SIZE=4]Appreciate the "real" comment and yes it's going to get very real in a few weeks. No, the jeep is not going to see any major off road action. I'll leave the to youngsters. I'm just looking for a better suspension and will withstand the test of time and not have to deal with having to install new steering components every 2 or 3 years.[/SIZE] Chris [SIZE=4]We're not going to Heep it, but it will have more gold/zinc accents under the jeep than our neighbors teeth. I am concerned as to over doing it, with golden drag link, tie rod, track bar, upper and lower control arms (front & rear) so I'm going to change it up and avoid the gold sway links as well as the gold shocks. I'm just looking for heavy duty components no matter what color they are. With the installation just around the corner, I'll replace the Bilstein damper with another damper of the same make. Then I've not been happy with the rear sway link mounted on the front of the jeep. Even at 8.5 inchs theses link continue to hit the frame when driving over humps etc. I've looked into the factory short links, but this would drop the way bar too far into the negative. Right now, the longer rear link mounted on the front is more than 7% positive. I believe this is due to the years of driving as the coil springs have finally settled. In order to correct the sway links or place them in an acceptable comfortable range. I've looked into adjustable links. But again, most of these are already set to 8 or 8.5 inched and I want to avoid this. The issue is I selected a 1.5 lift, but once on the jeep we're in a odd ball range lift height. So I'll have to jerry rig components to get things the way I need them. I've selected the Teraflex 4'' center link with rod ends. [/SIZE] [ATTACH type="full" width="487px" alt="57681a0fdd76a30089ded3ec.jpg"]117084[/ATTACH] These have been set to a short link range as compared to other links. I'll be adjusting these links to something around 7 - 7.5 inches which will bring the link angle down or within the Positive / negative range. Plus without all the clunky hardware. So not everything being installed on the jeep will have a gold or zinc tint to it. The Bilstein dampers is silver also. [/QUOTE]
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