Long term jeeper, 1st time sammy owner.
I picked up an '86 with roughly 10million miles on it but runs smoothing after a couple minutes warm up. The body is straight excluding 1 dent on the drivers 1/4 and not a spot of rust on it including the frame. The interior needs some luv but isn't bad.
With Jeeps the lift options are simple, sua kit. There are other options but I've never had 5k to convert a Leaf setup to a coil, so really there was only 1 route and it cost $469 including shocks but not shipping
The sammy world seems to be a bit different. 1st it took me a while to figure out what SPOA meant, because I'm retarded and have been talking SOA for years. Anyway beyond my mental deficiencies... There are so many different routes and they mostly cost about the same for the basic kits. The sam will be more or less a DD when I'm not carting clients around(my 'for clients' ride gets about 12mpg). It will also be a hunting rig, basic off-roading, but no extreme trails or real rock crawling.
It has 235's on it now and I'm assuming no lift. I'd like 31's, and being I paid $900 for the rig I don't want to spend a ton. So I'm considering one of the basic soa's or the wrangler spring conversion.
Some info I've found on the wrangler conversion says 31's are fine, but others say you don't get any real lift only a better ride. Which is odd being that jeepers always complain about their ride quality. And on the conversion kits I've seen I see no note about correcting the steering.
So any chance on a definitive answer as far was what would work best and cheapest?