Blaine B.
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Northwest Indiana
Well, here's an odd one....
My buddy has a 96 XJ, with a 4.5" Rubicon Express lift, along with u-bolt eliminators, shackels, and spacers in the front. Also, long arms, SYE, and custom rear drive shaft (not just a front shaft, this one is longer)
For some reason the rear seems to have came forward in terms of wheel base. The leafs are currently using the center hole of the u-bolt eliminators (not moving the axle forward nor back, but keeping it in the stock location)
We measured wheel base, and it was somewhere around 100". From my searches, I've found that an XJ wheelbase is either 100.4" or 101.4" (one of the two sources screwed up, not sure which is correct)
However the wheel base just seems so short! It's about 4" shorter than my XJ with a 3.5" lift.
Anybody have any thoughts on this? Here's a few pics as well as an album. Don't want to make this a dial-up UNfriendly thread!!
Thanks in advance.
http://s20.photobucket.com/albums/b210/bbugaski/Ryan%20Jeep/
PS: For awhile we thought that it was maybe an optical illusion since the rear quarter panels were cut. But it's not. If you look you'll see how the axle is too far forward for the bumpstops to line up perfectly....and then you can just see how close the tire is to the front of the fender wells.
Also, yes, this XJ is chopped....so some of you may be thinking that the weight which was lost caused the spring arch to be larger which moved the axle forward.
However we loaded around 400 lbs of stuff in the back and it didn't make a difference in the wheelbase.
My buddy has a 96 XJ, with a 4.5" Rubicon Express lift, along with u-bolt eliminators, shackels, and spacers in the front. Also, long arms, SYE, and custom rear drive shaft (not just a front shaft, this one is longer)
For some reason the rear seems to have came forward in terms of wheel base. The leafs are currently using the center hole of the u-bolt eliminators (not moving the axle forward nor back, but keeping it in the stock location)
We measured wheel base, and it was somewhere around 100". From my searches, I've found that an XJ wheelbase is either 100.4" or 101.4" (one of the two sources screwed up, not sure which is correct)
However the wheel base just seems so short! It's about 4" shorter than my XJ with a 3.5" lift.
Anybody have any thoughts on this? Here's a few pics as well as an album. Don't want to make this a dial-up UNfriendly thread!!
Thanks in advance.
http://s20.photobucket.com/albums/b210/bbugaski/Ryan%20Jeep/
PS: For awhile we thought that it was maybe an optical illusion since the rear quarter panels were cut. But it's not. If you look you'll see how the axle is too far forward for the bumpstops to line up perfectly....and then you can just see how close the tire is to the front of the fender wells.
Also, yes, this XJ is chopped....so some of you may be thinking that the weight which was lost caused the spring arch to be larger which moved the axle forward.
However we loaded around 400 lbs of stuff in the back and it didn't make a difference in the wheelbase.