So what did ProComp do for the rear suspension?  A-arm replacement, or spacer?  New coils or coil spacer?

Just new coils and shocks, that's all. It's a bit 'wobbly' in the rear on mine cos I have quite soft rear shocks should adjust them to a bit harder, also the stock control arms do their part in this.

Excelent idea, I've been waiting for this for a long time. With the Hagen mod. incorporated it's all the better. I have the 3 inch Calmini kit and an extra 2 inches I could finally clear 33's. The rear would be a no brainer you could add adjustable coil spring spacers and adj. your ride height to your own specs. On the front I would try to box the whole lowering mounts to help strenghten them out. You could also cut out the stock crossmember between the mounts and drop the diff. as much as nessary. On the steering issue if you flip your tie rods to the top instead of the bottom I bet a 2 inch drop would be perfect, and they make a reamer tool to do just this. I would be very interrested in this sign me up.

      Kevin

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Hey there Kevin

IIRC the picture that you posted is an adjustable coil spacer for the Jeep Cherokee.  I really liked the idea of the adjustable spacer as a tuning device for ride height when I had my Cherokee, but I think that I would look down other roads when considering the bulk of the lift for the rear. 

One idea that I'm toying with for the rear is using coil springs from a coil over set up.  I've seen a few companies that make brackets to use these coils seperate from the coil-over shocks.  This would open up a whole new field of possibilities as far as spring rate, and free spring length go.  The springs don't seem to be too expensive either. (I just measured the ID of my stock springs and it was a little bigger than 3".  I wonder if 3" ID coil-over springs would fit the stock mounts?)

For the steering it looks like you can get a dropped pitman arm and I'm wondering about moving the idler arm down a coresponding amount as well.  I do like the idea of flipping the tie-rod ends to the top of the steering knuckle though.

On the steering issue if you flip your tie rods to the top instead of the bottom I bet a 2 inch drop would be perfect, and they make a reamer tool to do just this.

How come I have never thought of this myself  . It allmost seems to easy to actually work..... I have to try it out for sure 

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Quote from: ppltrak on May 17, 2007, 02:29:46 PM

On the steering issue if you flip your tie rods to the top instead of the bottom I bet a 2 inch drop would be perfect, and they make a reamer tool to do just this.

How come I have never thought of this myself  . It allmost seems to easy to actually work..... I have to try it out for sure 

I believe Mike tried this.  When the tie rod angles don't match the control arm angles it can give you some different road handling.

I think he said it drove funney on the road but was better off roading??

Mike?

Lil truck, This will happen if the nuckles arnt low enough. But with the extra lift like 5inches I think that the tie rods would line up better on top. Just my .02$

     Kevin