Ya you'll be plenty fine with 35's. I wish I did that the first time around. Now waiting for these damn 33's to wear out...

Also, was wondering what your front shackle angle looks like if you have any better pics of it? I'm not happy with where mine is at up front...

 

I have a picture without any weight on them it actually made me a bit nervous when I first hung the springs.

I believe mine are angled a little bit more than yours but not much.

 

mine settled a good amount, and I have 4.5" shackles up front now, so the angle is not too bad, but I would like em to be better

 

any more updates on this?

 

I had a few things come up so I put it on the backburner for a while. Hopefully I am going to start working on it in the next few weeks.

Still planning on keeping the coils, and I think I have narrowed it down to ome860's. Custom links and panhard bar

 

As for rear coils I ran Rusty's Offroad 6'' Jeep Grand Cherokee front coils in the rear. This was my daily driver and trail rig. I also extended the lower links did away with the upper two. Built a new xmember that the gas tank bolted to and added a top link centered above the driveshaft. Worked great.

 

Here we go. This should help a lot of people out in the future. OME 860 coils in the rear. The ome860's should give you an extra 1.5"-2" over the stock fj80 coils. You will have to do something about the control arms and panhard bar. I have not gotten there yet but here is proof that the coils will match the 3" trail-gear sas kit.



stock fj80 coil on the left. OME860 on the right. Height is about the same but the ome coils have more wraps and is much heavier and stiffer of a spring which should do wonders for me with the sas cause the stock fj80's were way to soft with that sas.

 

SWEEET, Build looks great man !!

 

I dislike my rear coils very much after the sas. It is FAR too tip in the back. Also, when i take turns the back tires will actually tuck into the fender wells.

I am throwing leafs in teh back ASAP.

Good luck.

 

which coils were you running? I knew the stock fj80 coils had a lot of body roll to them. But these things are a lot heavier and stifer than my 80's so I am anticipating that it should do well. At least well enough for me.. not like I have to drive the thing everday.

 

yea i have the stock fj80's.

There are some other reasons too. For one. The links seem to be maxed out when i flex, and i just don't like the design of the stock rear suspension, especially after you add longer coils.

Im sure if i reworked the links it would be much better, but i woudl rather have the simplicity of leafs in ithe back.

 

well. Still have yet to make up the front driveshaft but other than that I can say that the sas is officially done and about time to. I started driving it for the first time in almost two years this past weekend.

As far as the tippyness goes. It is a bit tipsy but my elocker is not unlocking at the moment so i'm sure most of the body roll is from that.. once that is straightened out it should be bearable. So the 860's did just what I wanted.

 

So you never did anything with the links in the rear, just put in the 860's?

 

Not yet I haven't. They need to be extended at least but I think I will 3 link it before too long.

 

You've already gone leaves in the front, it would only be natural to convert the rear. I wanted to keep my coils in the rear, thats why I did a 3link coil front. As mentioned earlier, there is no way to keep the stock 5link coil, which binds under extreme articulation anyway. I used the same location for the lower links and moved the uppers to centered on the top of the diff. My lower links are 42" long and the uppers are like 30~ish in the rear. You can get the separation on the upper links over 40 degrees, close to 45, and you don't need a panhard rod, no binding, especially with heim joints.

Long story short, way too big of a chunk that I bit off and thats why I haven't driven my truck in way too long. Handling, night and day difference between leaves and coils, especially with big coilover remote reservoirs. If this isn't your DD and you don't want to blow the money and the time, dont bother trying to keep the stock rear jacked up, it'll break. Chevy leafs in the rear and wheel the snot out of it. IMHO

 

Thanks I will keep that in mind. It's really not that bad with this 3" kit and stiffer coils. It handles fairly ok but mainly I just need to reposition and center my rear axle again.

Honestly it will still be a while before I decide what I am going to do, i just hate to give up coils for leaves. Plus I usually like to try new things and learn the hard way.

It isn't a daily driver but I don't trailer it either.

 

any action lately? i know this thread is like 10 months old but i love 2 doors haha. any pics?

 

Any updates?!

 

Haven't really had the time or money to fool with it. Wife has been out of a job for over a year now so I have been pinching pennies. Getting 35's in the next week or two but that is about it.

However here is a flex shot for ya.

 

New tires.




Found a front drivesahft. Gonna take it to a buddy and he will fix it up for me.