Arterius2
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So lets get this cleared once and for all, when you typically buy suspension/steering related upgrades it usually specifies it's 'for xx amount of lift'. Now, a Rubicon naturally sits higher than other trims, so a rubi suspension swap on a Sahara or sport yields about 1-2" of lift depending on your model.
I'm not very knowledgeable in how all the linkage affect one another, so go easy on me, but lets say a Sahara with Rubicon suspension swap yielding 1.5" of lift, should I consider that as 1.5" lift or 0" since I've just brought it up to stock Rubicon borderline level. And like many aftermarket components they are built for Rubicon as a reference point. This matters when you are shopping for things like suspension, sway bar links, track bars etc where it says for 0-2.5" or 2.5-4.5" of lift for example, should I read 'for 2.5" lift' as more like 'for 4" lift' if buying for a Sahara/Sport?
Many are reporting that Mopar 2" lift is giving more than 2" than as advertised, many are even Rubicon owners, who claims they are getting near 3" lift, so that would mean the Mopar lift would give something like 4" on a Sahara, and possibly more on a Sport. That's a massive amount of variance and not written clearly by manufactures.
It also doesn't make a lot of sense for me that when a Sport/Sahara do a Rubicon suspension swap, you can re-use all the original length linkage components since they are the same, but yet when a Rubicon does same amount of lift you have to use extended/adjustable-length components. Meaning stock rubis are running lower caster angles than stock Sahara/sports as one of the measurable differences?
I'm not very knowledgeable in how all the linkage affect one another, so go easy on me, but lets say a Sahara with Rubicon suspension swap yielding 1.5" of lift, should I consider that as 1.5" lift or 0" since I've just brought it up to stock Rubicon borderline level. And like many aftermarket components they are built for Rubicon as a reference point. This matters when you are shopping for things like suspension, sway bar links, track bars etc where it says for 0-2.5" or 2.5-4.5" of lift for example, should I read 'for 2.5" lift' as more like 'for 4" lift' if buying for a Sahara/Sport?
Many are reporting that Mopar 2" lift is giving more than 2" than as advertised, many are even Rubicon owners, who claims they are getting near 3" lift, so that would mean the Mopar lift would give something like 4" on a Sahara, and possibly more on a Sport. That's a massive amount of variance and not written clearly by manufactures.
It also doesn't make a lot of sense for me that when a Sport/Sahara do a Rubicon suspension swap, you can re-use all the original length linkage components since they are the same, but yet when a Rubicon does same amount of lift you have to use extended/adjustable-length components. Meaning stock rubis are running lower caster angles than stock Sahara/sports as one of the measurable differences?
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