Removed XR suspension

[Upnover]

How many of you who got the XR ended up swapping out your suspension?

any of you just do the shocks?

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[dstevens]

My goal was to fix the limited factory bump travel so I did shocks with more travel and also had to replace the front jounce tube with air bump stops. Springs are still stock. Had to do a couple of minor things like space the rear sway bar down to stop it hitting the shock body at full droop.

Stock front shocks had a 7.33" stroke, replacement has 10.17". Rear 7.88", replacement 11.17". Stock front bump travel 2.875" metal to metal, now 6.0". Fairly big difference off road. Rear bump travel was not as bad; don't have the measurements here but I increased bump travel 1.75".

I wanted to keep the springs stock so that I would not have to play games with spacers to get the Jeep level again.

 

[4xFUN]

Yup. I swapped the entire suspension, steering linkage and upgraded to 37" KO2 D's...Expensive even though I did each and every nut and bolt myself, however super happy with the outcome and would do it all over again!

 

[Rubi SoHo]

Ripped it all out and put in a Metal a cloak Gamechanger 3.5” kit.

No Ragrets.

 

[SaintNick]

I replaced the shocks with Fox shocks for 2-3". I also added the Apex sway bar links.

 

[nyglt56]

I also did longer shocks and increased bumps for larger tires. The springs are hilariously long and can easily be used with a 14" travel shock. But that's it.

 

[Seemego4WD]

My goal was to fix the limited factory bump travel so I did shocks with more travel and also had to replace the front jounce tube with air bump stops. Springs are still stock. Had to do a couple of minor things like space the rear sway bar down to stop it hitting the shock body at full droop.

Stock front shocks had a 7.33" stroke, replacement has 10.17". Rear 7.88", replacement 11.17". Stock front bump travel 2.875" metal to metal, now 6.0". Fairly big difference off road. Rear bump travel was not as bad; don't have the measurements here but I increased bump travel 1.75".

I wanted to keep the springs stock so that I would not have to play games with spacers to get the Jeep level again.

what did you go with for front bump stop

 

[Upnover]

My goal was to fix the limited factory bump travel so I did shocks with more travel and also had to replace the front jounce tube with air bump stops. Springs are still stock. Had to do a couple of minor things like space the rear sway bar down to stop it hitting the shock body at full droop.

Stock front shocks had a 7.33" stroke, replacement has 10.17". Rear 7.88", replacement 11.17". Stock front bump travel 2.875" metal to metal, now 6.0". Fairly big difference off road. Rear bump travel was not as bad; don't have the measurements here but I increased bump travel 1.75".

I wanted to keep the springs stock so that I would not have to play games with spacers to get the Jeep level again.

I think this is what I am leaning towards. What shocks did you go with?

I was going to throw on 1/2 spacers all around when I went to 37s just for a little more clearance, but that’s up in the air.

 

[dstevens]

what did you go with for front bump stop

Fox air bumps. I hear a clunk as the pad hits about 1.5" from bottoming out but it never actually bottoms out because the bumps are progressive. If anyone installs these the instructions are incorrect for the giant jounce tubes found on the XR/392/Diesel.

I also found my post from a year ago.

https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/fo...our-jeep-jl-today.3033/page-3864#post-2563941

Turns out I added so much crap to my Jeep I spaced it around an inch to get the ride height back to normal.

I think this is what I am leaning towards. What shocks did you go with?

I was going to throw on 1/2 spacers all around when I went to 37s just for a little more clearance, but that’s up in the air.

Fox factory race 2-3". I'm not 100% happy with them because they are still too harsh for my liking. They work really well if you drive the vehicle hard and work the suspension fully; I suspect this is how they were developed. But if you are driving down a trail at normal speeds with 4-6" rocks then the dampening is far too harsh. For some reason when towing on pavement they are perfect. Anyhow.

With 37s you'll need to add bumpstop back in or attack the inner fender.

Oh, and back to the OP, it's probably easier just to do the whole package - springs, shocks, end links, caster correction.

 

[05blackmax]

Put fox 2.0s on and the mopar longer lower control arms and 37s rides and drives great.

 

[Fast-n-Furious]

I swapped the coil springs to gain another 1.5” front. Mopar LCAs for better caster angle. The next is track bar and steering upgrade.

The newly released Fox 2.5 IFP HTO shocks are in my short list.

 

[NWJeepr]

The factory shocks will get replaced at some point (wear), but otherwise I don't plan to scrap the rest of the XR suspension. Looking at Bilsteins for a potential early shock replacement, not really thrilled with the red Mopars after having Bilsteins in my JK before I bought this.

Wheeling to the limit of the XR's capabilities is enough for me. After that it seems to get into inevitable rock/body contact and replacing parts until you basically own a buggy.

 

[Seemego4WD]

I have aev 3 inch lift with 8100 shocks I’ll install next month when I have some time
I’m going to put a fad in and see how long the front driveshaft lasts. I’ll measure everything out and see what to do about the bump stops

 

[JP52]

Ripped it all out and put in a Metal a cloak Gamechanger 3.5” kit.

No Ragrets.

I did the same. Also, no regrets. The stock XR was always bottoming out.

 

[Upnover]

Fox air bumps. I hear a clunk as the pad hits about 1.5" from bottoming out but it never actually bottoms out because the bumps are progressive. If anyone installs these the instructions are incorrect for the giant jounce tubes found on the XR/392/Diesel.

I also found my post from a year ago.

https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/fo...our-jeep-jl-today.3033/page-3864#post-2563941

Turns out I added so much crap to my Jeep I spaced it around an inch to get the ride height back to normal.



Fox factory race 2-3". I'm not 100% happy with them because they are still too harsh for my liking. They work really well if you drive the vehicle hard and work the suspension fully; I suspect this is how they were developed. But if you are driving down a trail at normal speeds with 4-6" rocks then the dampening is far too harsh. For some reason when towing on pavement they are perfect. Anyhow.

With 37s you'll need to add bumpstop back in or attack the inner fender.

Oh, and back to the OP, it's probably easier just to do the whole package - springs, shocks, end links, caster correction.

Yeah already tracking the rear bump stops. I think cutting the bump tower down and new shocks for longer droop is what I want to do. I don’t hate the stock ride.

If I did any springs it would be aev or synergy, but I don’t really feel the need to swap the stock ones out.

I have a lot of parts already that took off or collected and never installed from my JT that I traded back to be in a JL.

right now I am putting in armorlite flooring, so much easier for cleaning with my dogs.

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