BDS 3" Lift for Wrangler
JK Rubicon
A new lift for the
jeepfan.com JK
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In the early stages
of the jeepfan.com JK we installed a 2.5"
Tera Flex Budget Boost
lift kit. The kit has served
the Jeep well in the year it was installed but
it has come time to upgrade to a "real" lift
that includes shocks, springs, etc.
What's the
difference?
The
Tera Flex Budget Boost kit
is an excellent starter lift. This
particular lift is of a kind called a coil
spacer lift. In simplest terms the lift
adds spacers to the top of the Jeep's coil
springs to add a certain amount of lift.
These lifts will add ground clearance and allow
for larger tires but do not increase suspension
travel allowing greater suspension flexibility.
How high?
Since the
jeepfan.com JK is a daily driver and we wanted
to stay in the 33-35" tire range a 3" lift would
be perfect. More than likely the gain in
ride height between the Tera Flex kit and the
BDS will be minimal but the off-road handling
and articulation improvement will be
significant.
Why
BDS?
We have had a
long time loyalty to the BDS products.
From the common YJ to CJ lift conversion to the
JK all the BDS products we have installed and
used have never let us down. BDS includes
their "No Fine Print" guarantee on all their
suspension products. In simplest terms if
a component breaks they replace it.
Specifics:
Coil Springs
BDS
JK coil springs (like all of BDS Jeep coils) are
specifically designed to go to full coil bind.
This means that they can totally collapse
on themselves to the point that all of the coils
are touching. This is
accomplished by using a better grade material
and taking a few extra steps in the
manufacturing process. This
ensures a top quality springs that is pretty
much indestructible as far as coil springs go.
Some companies will just take the factory
spring specs and add height to them, while we
start from the ground up and design our springs
from scratch. The factory
design has no where near the compression ability
that our springs do. If the
stock spring collapsed beyond its design
constraints, the material will be fatigued and
not be able to maintain its intended ride height
(it will sag).
Specifics:
9500 series shocks
These shocks are
correctly valved for the applications that they
are used for. High pressure
gas mono-tube design. These
shocks come with a brushed metal finished that
is clear coated to ensure an excellent finish
for a long time. BDS has a
Jeep who's shocks have been on for 2 years and
still look new � which is amazing in
Michigan with all the
salt that is put on the road in the winter
Specifics:
Front
Track Bar:
The front track bar
itself is made from solid steel round stock with
precision machined threads.
This ensures excellent strength and durability
without any flex. Much
better then a tube style track bar.
The best feature of this replacement
adjustable track bar is in the bushing design.
The bushings included with the track bar
are specially made with a high durometer
polyurethane. These
extra-stiff bushings (15% stiffer then standard
polyurethane bushings used in other aftermarket
suspension components like control arms) ensure
that the track bar will be extremely solid and
have virtually no bushing flex.
That means a tighter feel at the steering
wheel and no chance of death-wobble resulting
from too-soft, sloppy bushings.
What we are
installing...
The
kit we are using on the jeepfan.com JK is as
follows and contains...
Base Kit
- 3" Coil Springs
- 4 BDS 9500 Series Gas Shocks
- Rear track bar drop bracket
- Bushings, bolts, and misc
- BDS 5500 Series Steering Stabilizer
- Front castor adjustment bolts
Add-on
Adjustable front track bar
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