re: Need to get shocks for my new lift for my CJ

well i have read that a 2.5" lift doesnt need loger breaklines and a 4" does, then i read that they arent needed on a 4" lift.... i just want to know yes or no because im unsure how large the lift is on these springs.

but i want you to tell me

the new ones are off the jeep depressed and the old ones are on the jeep compressed.


i think the new ones will feel a lot better once i put them on.

thats what im going to do.... i guess you didnt get my corny joke.

thanks.

im amazed new pitman arms are so expensive...

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im amazed new pitman arms are so expensive

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I need to change mine.

What I mean didn't last long is that they wore out quickly with in 20,000 miles. If your driving in Baton Rouge you could almost consider it off roading with all the pot holes lol. Main thing I would stay away from is rancho unless your getting the adjustable ones.

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BR has 4x4 shops? Kirks is the only place i can think of.

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Light Line 4x4

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Searchers 4WD

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Both are great. I plan to have Phil at Searchers build a custom cage for my CJ7 this coming week. I love that place.

Yeah, there are quite a few. Seems every time I go to the Home Depot I bump into somebody with one and we end up talking mods and such for an hour or more.

My wife hates that.

Not really. I looked into shocks about a year ago and was going to go with the Bilsteins, but I run 31's and the only lift I have is a 1" body lift. As for the brake lines, I believe it's a fairly well established general rule that you should get extensions on the brake lines if you lift 4" or more. Then again, the last thing you want to fail is a brake line. A lot of old CJs have been in enough slop over the past 25 or more years that the brake lines could probably use a bit of work anyway.