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Adding a heavy bumper and a winch can cause the front of a TJ to sag a bit even with a lift. The weight of a winch and a heavy bumper puts the weight far forward. This leads to a heavy overhang that can cause drooping. At first, this wasn’t too much of an issue …
With the front complete on page 1 we move to the rear. On a lift it isn’t necessary to remove the rear wheels and like the front only a few things to need to be partially detached. The bottom shock bolts, lower sway bar bolts and track bar are all that’s needed to allow the …
The jeepfan.com 2022 Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon 4xe sits about 1″ higher than a non 4xe or XR Rubicon so when we added the new set of the 315/70R17 BFGoodrich KO2 tires it looked real good but in the end we thought it needed just a little more. Since our approach with this Jeep is more …
The coil spring equipped Wranglers all utilized a track bar on the front and rear axle to keep the axle located in relation to side to side. It’s simple really, one side of the bar is attached to the frame, the other side to the axle. The bar is connected at opposite sides. Since the …
When adding larger tires to your JL Wrangler you can often experience death wobble at certain speeds. Unfortunately the Jeep didn’t seem to solve the death wobbly with the JL. Interestingly it seems to happen to some and not others. A small 2″ lifted JL Sport or Sahara can easily run 35’s and a Rubicon …
The TJ sway bar drastically improves on road driving by transferring forces from one side of the Jeep to the other when cornering. The bar is sometimes referred to as and anti-roll bar. Simply speaking the sway bar is a torsion bar that is connected each of the outer ends of the axle. The bar …
This installation is part of a lift kit installation on the jeepfan.com 2004 TJ Unlimited. We installed a Teraflex 3″ lift that included new upper and lower Teraflex Flexarm control arms. The kit from Teraflex included a heavy duty front adjustable track bar, we figured while we are at it why not add an adjustable …
Continuing from Page 2 of Installing a TJ Teraflex 3 Inch Lift in the jeepfan.com 2004 Wrangler TJ Unlimited we are at the point if installing the new Teraflex springs. These 3″ lift springs are matched to the TJ to give proper lift and good ride. Rear Springs Rear spring installation is simple, position the spring in …
Continuing from Page 1 of Installing a TJ Teraflex 3 Inch Lift in the jeepfan.com 2004 Wrangler TJ Unlimited we have reached the point that everything old was removed. During the time the axles were off getting the ARB Air Lockers and G2 4.56:1 gears installed we took the time for some clean up. We hit …
After the installation of the lift and tires on the jeepfan.com 2016 JKU RHR we experienced some wandering on the road. It wasn’t terrible but we wanted to return the Jeep to near original driving feel. Often the wandering is due to the loss of caster from the increase of lift. To put it simply …
