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Best way to add .5" to the front ?
- Thread starter Hylander
- Start date
Mullet Man
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Kirkland IL
adding an isolator is probably the cheapest and quickest way to do it.
thechief86
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- White House, TN
x2.
joe_peters
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Grants Pass, OryGun
That should do it.
Are you changing from stock height? Wouldn't want you adding another if they are already stacked up in there 6 high.
heyhar
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- PA (near Poconos)
Put a big dog in the back?:dunno:
Do coil spacers come that thin? I would think another isolator would soon become squashed. How about two or three.
Do coil spacers come that thin? I would think another isolator would soon become squashed. How about two or three.
joe_peters
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Grants Pass, OryGun
I was thinking the OEM isolators were about 1/2", they might be thinner than that.
Mullet Man
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Kirkland IL
i'm almost 100% sure they are atleast 1/2" thick.
MaxxXJ
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Bakersfield CA
yanno... if you just go out and flex your ride a little bit im sure your rear will sag down at least an inch, ALSO... after you load your rig full of camping gear and or tools... your going to wish you had a taller rear
- Location
- WA state
I have heard as well, another coil isolator gives about a half inch.
- Location
- Rainy side of Washington
stock coil spacers do indeed measure 5/8". They also cost five or ten bucks a pair at your local junkyard, quite economical - if you don't like em, just flex it out till the coils come unseated a bit (you may need to put your tire jack between the shock mount on the axle and the frame rail) and use a utility knife to cut through one side of one spacer then pull them off, don't even need to take the springs out if you do it right.
Emerscape
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Boston, MA
How hard is it to install them? After putting an ARB bumper on my OME lift the front is a little lower than the back.. Would be nice to level it out
the stock spacers have a metal reinforcement plate inside em, have fun cutting through them with a utility knife,
you just need to remove the coil, install spacer, reinstal coil, pending on what suspention you have you may get away with just flexing it out enough to unseat coil
- Location
- Rainy side of Washington
:dunce: Oops, my apologies for bad info. I cut partially through one and figured the rest was more of the same :dunno: guess I didn't cut deep enough to hit the plate.
Sounds like another Isolator will do the trick.
I only have the one factory Isolator right now.
One other thing, how about bumpstops ?
What is evryone using for the rear, seems most are using Hocky pucks up from glued in, and I thought I was a Redneck :laugh:
I only have the one factory Isolator right now.
One other thing, how about bumpstops ?
What is evryone using for the rear, seems most are using Hocky pucks up from glued in, and I thought I was a Redneck :laugh:
JrTxJ
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Canton, MA
Why buy used at the junkyard when they're less than $10 new?
http://www.jeep4x4center.com/product-information.asp?number=52000229
Also Quadratec, and many other places sell them as well for short money.
For rear bumpstops, buy the upcountry ones. They're 4.1" tall. http://www.jeep4x4center.com/product-information.asp?number=52002393
http://www.jeep4x4center.com/product-information.asp?number=52000229
Also Quadratec, and many other places sell them as well for short money.
For rear bumpstops, buy the upcountry ones. They're 4.1" tall. http://www.jeep4x4center.com/product-information.asp?number=52002393
- Location
- Rainy side of Washington
I did because I was in a hurry :dunno: Ended up not even using them, I got the OME934s because my ZJ coils didn't give me enough lift (I determined I had accidentally gotten I6 ZJ coils instead of V8 ZJ coils), and the 934s didn't need the extra isolators to sit level.
xcm
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Southern Oregon
because if he wanted to be spending money, he'd probably buy a coil spacer, coil isolators are easy because
1- cheap AND redily available, you can get em TODAY.
2- MOST jeepers have extra's around anyways.
also, that 'extended' upper bumpstop you posted, is probably good if you run a 1" lift kit, beyond that, that becomes pretty much only part of the solution.
JJacobs
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Fort Collins CO
Don't forget to reset the toe afterwards, it will get a little toed-in after the small height increase.
