HaZakated
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Fairfield OH
There is a guy around town that drives a 2 door XJ around with 35" tires and stock gears. I found that to be interesting in itself. Anyways, He has a total of 6 inches of lift. 3 inches are from some sort of store purchased lift, and three inches comes from his own custom fabrication.
The three inches that he fabricated is something I've never seen before and I was wondering what you all think about this idea. What he did was literaly cut his upper and lower control arms in half and welded a 3" spacer into the stock control arms. The spacers follow the design of the stock control arms shape (ya know, the strange shape). This forces 3 inches of lift.
Here is what I think: Being that the weight of the vehicel now rests completly on the control arm bushings, I think that it is a weak link design. If he ever hit any good bumps off road, I would assume that the force would snap those welds on the control arms like twigs.....Am I right??? I would guess that he has never had this problem being that his XJ is never muddy.
I could be completely wrong in this due to the fact that I have never seen it done before, but I was just curios as to how you all felt about it.
Brian
The three inches that he fabricated is something I've never seen before and I was wondering what you all think about this idea. What he did was literaly cut his upper and lower control arms in half and welded a 3" spacer into the stock control arms. The spacers follow the design of the stock control arms shape (ya know, the strange shape). This forces 3 inches of lift.
Here is what I think: Being that the weight of the vehicel now rests completly on the control arm bushings, I think that it is a weak link design. If he ever hit any good bumps off road, I would assume that the force would snap those welds on the control arms like twigs.....Am I right??? I would guess that he has never had this problem being that his XJ is never muddy.
I could be completely wrong in this due to the fact that I have never seen it done before, but I was just curios as to how you all felt about it.
Brian