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I don't know, it looks great. I'm very happy with how it turned out from a visual standpoint. However, I could get that look from a Rough Country $10 lift. I'm quite frustrated about the feelings of imminent death that I have when driving down the road, mostly when the wheel has any pressure on it, and I hit any sort of bump. It's fact, I'm going to die next week driving 2.5 hours to a trailhead. If you don't hear from me after March 25, I'm dead.
The install went pretty well! We spent about just over 5 hours with four of us installing. One, my cousin, is a mechanic at a stealership and installs Rough Country lifts a couple times a week for the past 5 years. My cousin knew exactly what wrench and socket we needed for each part. The only thing he didn't absolutely know was torque specs because they just "crank it down". I made sure we used the torque specs in the Clayton instructions where we could.
Now the down side, the whole thing about imminent death. It's okay at best going straight and running about 25psi cold, up to 26 psi warmed. The steering wheel likes to shake for fun, I think of it like Shakira's hips. The Jeep absolutely tracks straight which is really nice. I took it for a $162 alignment and they were like, it didn't really need much of anything, but they still charged me $162, I guess they did put in the time. When I'm driving at any speed above 40mph and I have even the slightest pressure on the steering wheel for a curve and then hit any sort of the tiniest bump, it's no bueno. So, I had the 37s on the Jeep before the lift since January, no issues at all. It definitely drove slightly different but I went from 33s to 37s so, no duh. I still felt 100% confident in the steering/handling of the Jeep though, even at 90. I haven't taken it through the huge construction areas on I25 in CO yet with the lift and I'm very concerned to, honestly. I guess at this point, I'm crossing my fingers because I can't just not drive anywhere, hope I don't kill someone. My recommendation, stay away from a blue Jeep in CO if you value your life.
My alignment shows the Caster at 5.46 and 5.61 degrees. The Clayton instructions say 4.8 +/- 1 degree so I'm within spec there.
I found a couple of these threads that I'll go through, I hope I can resolve the issue.
https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/fo...ble-an-algorithm-to-diagnose-the-issue.62313/
jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/aev-steering-stabilizer-review-completely-solved-my-wobble.84238/
Also tagging @claytonoffroad to see if maybe they've seen this before and have any suggestions. I really want to love it but I don't look forward to dying in a fiery Jeep crash killing my passengers and poor dog who never wears a seatbelt.
Here's my alignment paperwork. I don't know whether the specs on the JK and JL are different but the paperwork shows I have a 2016 JK when I very clearly told them it's a '22 JL, maybe that doesn't even matter because specs are the same but something interesting worth noting about poor shop QA.
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