Lift Question
08-08-2012, 05:27 AM
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Lift Question
I've spent about 3 hours reading through searched threads, and still I have questions...so I apologize in advance if any of this has been covered and I simply did not see it.
My birthday is coming up, and my wife has told me she'd like to pay for my lift kit as a present. (My wife is awesome, BTW.)
I've been reading and reading about lift kits, and it's enough to make your head swim. I am not new to Jeeps, but I am VERY new to lifting Jeeps. My previous vehicles all rode on a stock suspension. Before I get to questions, I'll provide as much information as I can about what my uses are:
-This Jeep is my only vehicle, and I use it as a daily driver, so I'm only looking at putting 33" tires on it. (Specifically Nitto Terra Grapplers; 285/70/17)
-I love the stock ride. It's much better than any Jeep I've owned, and quite a bit better than my last truck as well, so I'd like to do all that I can in order to retain the stock ride.
-I don't "wheel" just to go wheeling, rather, I "wheel" when I head to camping and hunting spots. So I use my Jeep more as a way to get from A to B overland rather than crawling over rocks.
Keeping all that in mind, these are the kits I'm looking into (in no particular order):
-Teraflex Leveling Kit
-Teraflex 2.5" BB
-AEV 2" BB
I understand these are not coil lifts, but since I have a Rubicon, I thought it would be better to keep the stock coils for now and maybe upgrade to a 2.5" coil lift a few years down the road when these wear out. Is the BB is going to screw my ride quality up to the point that I would have wished I'd gone with coils?
I'm really trying to do this right the first time without going too extreme, and I humbly ask for advice, especially from those who have experience running the BB vs. the coil lift.
Thank you.
My birthday is coming up, and my wife has told me she'd like to pay for my lift kit as a present. (My wife is awesome, BTW.)
I've been reading and reading about lift kits, and it's enough to make your head swim. I am not new to Jeeps, but I am VERY new to lifting Jeeps. My previous vehicles all rode on a stock suspension. Before I get to questions, I'll provide as much information as I can about what my uses are:
-This Jeep is my only vehicle, and I use it as a daily driver, so I'm only looking at putting 33" tires on it. (Specifically Nitto Terra Grapplers; 285/70/17)
-I love the stock ride. It's much better than any Jeep I've owned, and quite a bit better than my last truck as well, so I'd like to do all that I can in order to retain the stock ride.
-I don't "wheel" just to go wheeling, rather, I "wheel" when I head to camping and hunting spots. So I use my Jeep more as a way to get from A to B overland rather than crawling over rocks.
Keeping all that in mind, these are the kits I'm looking into (in no particular order):
-Teraflex Leveling Kit
-Teraflex 2.5" BB
-AEV 2" BB
I understand these are not coil lifts, but since I have a Rubicon, I thought it would be better to keep the stock coils for now and maybe upgrade to a 2.5" coil lift a few years down the road when these wear out. Is the BB is going to screw my ride quality up to the point that I would have wished I'd gone with coils?
I'm really trying to do this right the first time without going too extreme, and I humbly ask for advice, especially from those who have experience running the BB vs. the coil lift.
Thank you.
