Warn Black Diamond lift

[TJVigilante]

I'm going to need a lift to fit the tires that I'll use with the axles I'm looking at from Brandon, so I've been looking around. I was thinking Budget Boost, but my stock springs seem to be a little touch-and-go lately, fronts look saggy, and I'd like 3" so I was looking at this lift (http://www.quadratec.com/cgi-bin/sgin0101.exe?T1=16110+012&UREQA=1&UREQB=2&UREQC=3&UREQD=4&FNM=00&UID=2006012918575350) and thought it looked like a pretty good deal. seems like the most difficult(sic) part of installing this is cutting the stock sway bar links to use with their extensions, which is no big deal for me.

It's got track bar relocation bracket and t-case lowering kit included, shocks, springs, bumpstop extensions, everything. I haven't seen a better price on a lift(actually $10 less at 4WD.com but not sure about shipping), and I'll end up doing a long arm conversion on it when I get the axles installed(thinking of doing the lift first) so that's another story.

Seems that people don't really like giving opinions to my questions :P but I'd really appreciate any feedback or points that I'm missing.

[crazy4ink]

The lift kit doesn't look too bad, but one thing to keep in mind when it comes to lift kits is you get what you pay for. I wish I would have done more searching and asking before I bought any lift kits for my Jeep; hence the reason I have gone through 4 other setups before ending up with what I have now.

One of the big problems that you would have with that setup is that you don't get any new, longer control arms. Now I know you said you are planning a long arm upgrade when you goto the fullwidths, but until that time you will be stuck with a very stiff ride, due to the severe angles you will put the OEM short arms at. Also, you will end up losing overall wheelbase. Granted, it won't be much, but it might be in the neighborhood of 1-2"s total. Doesn't sound like a lot, but that little bit of loss combined with bigger tires will lead to tire rubbing.

In all honesty, you could buy the same parts that come in the kit you hyperlinked to through Mousee and get Rubicon Express parts for about the same or less. Also with RE parts, you don't have to cut your swaybar mounts, although that doesn't really matter since you are looking at going to fullwidths.

Just some things to think about before you go laying out money on something. Would just hate to see you spend hard earned money on something and then in less than 3 months be totally dissatisfied with it.

[TJVigilante]

That's what I was looking for. I haven't heard much bad about these kits, and any kit I find with new adjustable control arms goes to the 900-1000 range. I guess it's something to look at, but couldn't I just source those control arms alongside this lift? Eh, I have to do more shopping, try to actually break down the parts so I can piece it together instead of going with a kit that may have been designed by an idiot or just designed for another type of environment. Thanks.

[crazy4ink]

You can add the RE adjustable control arms into the kit that you linked into this thread. They would work without any issues between the kit and the control arms.