wayoflife

wow, reviving a 2 year old just to post this - LOL!!

like i've always said, these brackets are a HUGE rock target. it just makes no sense to me that you would spend all this money to get your jeep HIGHER off the ground and then purposefully lower something like this effectively making it into a HUGE rock target that you slam the entire weight of your vehicle down on all the time.

and, if you had just installed adjustable lower control arms, you wouldn't have bent anything at all let alone would have needed to order up a new set of these rock targets. while your jeep feel like it drives fine, a bend like this could be enough to change the position of your front axle and among other things, that could cause long term uneven tire wear.

sorry my friend but, try 2" of ground clearnace and, if you're wheeling your jeep right, you'll be placing your tires on the rocks and that effectively makes your frame rails and rocker guards the lowest points on your jeep - NOT your pumpkin. you yourself are posting up on this old thread to talk about how you slam these brackets all the time and have just bent one.

i don't know why that should impress anyone especially when everyone wants to change out what came from the factory for something better. but hey, that's just me.

Nwapache

It seems you have some strong feelings on the subject WoL... Tell us how you really feel

wayoflife

so that it's clear, this is a 2 year old thread and one that i had been responding to back then. that is the only reason why i had responded to it again.

aev is a great company that makes great products. i love their procal, their hood and front bumper is beautiful and their conversion kits like the brute are to die for. they know how i feel about their lift kits, which were originally made by a company that went out of business called nth degree and yet, still like me enough to send out a brand new 2012. aev themselves would be the first to tell you that their lift kits are made more for the expedition types and daily drivers and, while you "can" rock crawl them, that is not their primary purpose. fanboys are unwilling to see any fault in anything they make and will try to insist they can do no wrong regardless of the truths that stare them in the face. i just try to put perspective on things - that's all.

sa29560

I agree wol. I wouldn't be caught dead with a set of these.

Im hoping to pick up a whole set of adjustable control arms very soon. That's the proper investment and upgrade in my opinion as well.

Roadrash

These brackets are the single best suspension mod I've done for 98% of the driving I do. AEV 3.5 lift and 35" tires.

RubiconGeoff

Are AEV's brackets really that much better than the brackets in Rancho's 4" Sport lift? AEV claims superior control arm geometry, here's something they said on their forum:

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If you look at the Rancho kit, its clear that they lowered all the control arms back to near stock geometry which will improve the ride quality and probably fixes the castor issue, but they didn't take full advantage of what was possible with drop brackets. The AEV kit has lowered the lower arms slightly and the upper arms drastically. What this does:

Improve front impact ride quality (expansion joints, ledges)
Increase Anti-Dive for improved braking performance
Decrease the operating angle range of the front driveshaft
Eliminate the need for adjustable control arms or cam bolts for caster correction
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NH-JK

I'd say yes.