6 Inch Suspension for Grand Wagoneers

[Kramer]

I'm torn between the BJs 4 inch lift and the 6 inch lift. One thing keeping me from the six inch lift is additional modifications.

If I buy a 6 inch lift with pitman arm and brake lines and everything that comes in the kit with springs and shocks, is there anything else I need to buy, or anything else I need to modify to roll the rig out of the garage without additional trips to the shop.

Thanks,
Seamus

[mountainlander]

bigger tires [img]smile.gif[/img]

[AMX factor]

Go 6" it's only $25 more than the 4" plus the pitman arm. I ordered the 6".

[ April 24, 2004, 10:14 PM: Message edited by: AMX factor ]

[Kramer]

Originally posted by AMX factor:
Go 6" it's only $25 more than the 4" plus the pitman arm. I ordered the 6".

My issue is that I don't want my GW to look like a monster truck. I just want to give it a beefier look, but even with the 4 inch lift, its still tough to get beigger tires on there without trimming.

Do you have any picks of your rig with the six inch lift.

Thanks,
Seam

[Kramer]

Originally posted by AMX factor:
Go 6" it's only $25 more I ordered the 6".

Where's this deal. I was going to grab a BJs lift, but it looked like it was a good 100 bucks more.

Thanks
Seamus

[billyrb]

The 6" kit includes the dropped pitman arm, the 4" doesn't (it's and extra $75).

[seamus]

A second seamus ??? we need to do something.

Seamus

[Kramer]

Originally posted by seamus:
A second seamus ??? we need to do something.

Seamus

Holy cow, is this Full Size Jeep of Dublin? In our town of 56,000, I'm the only one. Where you from? I'm always interested on where the name comes from. Mine is from my father's name James III. My mom wouldn't have any of me being
James William Oatis IV, so they settled on the Irish form. Thought 'Seamus' was tough to grow up with, but 'James IV' in an urban town would have gotten me beat up a lot more.

[Tad]

So you are thinking about a 6" lift?
Why not 7"?

I'm by no means bumping the BJ's parts, they put out some darn fine products.

The spring arch in a 6" kit is pretty severe, most of your articulation is gone into the arch for the lift.
Why not consider an SOA?

[BradN]

Tadsal, not everybody has the fab skills to create a good SOA suspension and I sure don't want a 7000 lb. vehicle on the road with a suspect suspension.

Billyrb, do you have pics that compare the 4" lift to the 6"? I am going to be ordering a lift for my wife's DD GW real soon and want to show her the options. Also, what do you recommend doing with the track bars/sway bars when you lift a GW 4"/6"?

[robselina]

As to the initial topic, a 6" kit doesn't require anything additional, but a 1" extension on the front driveshaft is advisable.

As for the general 4" vs 6" vs SOA, i'd say the 4" is probably more wheelable than a 6" kit frankly. Having owned the 6" kit, it worked, but didn't flex to good and I was having problems with the arch on the front springs. I bent two of them...I'm much happier with my SOA, and it's really a lot easier than it's made out to be (especially with tad's perches [img]smile.gif[/img] ). If you don't want to go into the trouble of it though, I'd say go 4" with the DPA.

[TPICherokee]

Pictures of the 6" kit are on the web site (www.bjsoffroad.com) now if you would like to see it. Thanks.

Brent

[89grand]

I second the 4" kit. It will look a lot different from before but still be reasonable. You can run 31's no problem wih a 4" and it looks prety good. That's what I'm running. You might get 32's even without much trouble.

[The Anti-Chrysler]

I second a 4" if this is to be a daily driver. 4" will get you pretty high in itself.

Where in CT are you?

[FSJ Thing]

Originally posted by Kramer:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by seamus:
A second seamus ??? we need to do something.

Seamus

Holy cow, is this Full Size Jeep of Dublin? In our town of 56,000, I'm the only one. Where you from? I'm always interested on where the name comes from. Mine is from my father's name James III. My mom wouldn't have any of me being
James William Oatis IV, so they settled on the Irish form. Thought 'Seamus' was tough to grow up with, but 'James IV' in an urban town would have gotten me beat up a lot more.</font>[/QUOTE]It's ok, one of you will be pronounced "see-mus" and the other can be "Shae-mus". It'll work.