2.5” lift input

[UTRocky]

I agree with that Bandit! Thanks.

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[Bjeepz]

I want to get the 3.5" from Clayton - I am in a Willys so Dana 44s 3.73 axle - my end is 35/36" tires. Besides upgrading brake lines, anything else need to be done to ensure vehicle lasts 40 years? I keep being told repair shop social media videos that lifting a vehicle is fine but it ruins life of the vehicle.

Do I need to do shocks and drive shafts, shocks bilsteins the best?

Whhaaattttt?!?!? A small lift with not ruin your Jeep and your Jeep certainly won't last 40yrs unless you park it in a sealed climate controlled box lol. Since you want 35's go 2.5 inches, make sure your shocks don't exceed driveshaft angles, the stock brake lines are fine in this case. Get the bits that make it drive nice and you're all set. If you like the warranty end of things just get a Mopar lift, add a front track bar, rear track bar bracket, upgraded steering stabilizer and disconnects if you wheel it and want the real Jeep flex. Sure there are a lot of options but based on your post you need something simple.

 

[dayusmc]

I can say this because I had those springs from Clayton. It will ride very hard. So it depends on what you will ACTUALLY be doing with your truck. From your original post it sounds like you are going to be on the road most of the time. I couldn’t handle the rough ride of the Claytons and switched to Synergy springs and they were just as bad, in a different way.
I ended up on the Mopar springs and love them, but I really do not off road my truck.
So my advice, when listening to advice on this board, is to look at what the people offering the advice are doing with their jeeps. If you are not flexing your jeep out to full extension can you really benefit from springs that will extend that long and give up driving comfort everywhere else? It also depends on the weight of the things you are putting on your truck. If someone has a steel front bumper and a heavy winch on their truck and you are running the plastic bumper, Clayton springs are going to ride completely different in their truck than yours. So when they say I have those springs and they ride great, take it with a grain of salt because their setup is completely different than yours….
That is my $0.02 and I wish that advice was offered to me at first because i would have saved a ton of $$$$$.

 

[Bjeepz]

^^^^^^ this for sure!

 

[Wheelin98TJ]

I can say this because I had those springs from Clayton. It will ride very hard. So it depends on what you will ACTUALLY be doing with your truck. From your original post it sounds like you are going to be on the road most of the time. I couldn’t handle the rough ride of the Claytons and switched to Synergy springs and they were just as bad, in a different way.
I ended up on the Mopar springs and love them, but I really do not off road my truck.
So my advice, when listening to advice on this board, is to look at what the people offering the advice are doing with their jeeps. If you are not flexing your jeep out to full extension can you really benefit from springs that will extend that long and give up driving comfort everywhere else? It also depends on the weight of the things you are putting on your truck. If someone has a steel front bumper and a heavy winch on their truck and you are running the plastic bumper, Clayton springs are going to ride completely different in their truck than yours. So when they say I have those springs and they ride great, take it with a grain of salt because their setup is completely different than yours….
That is my $0.02 and I wish that advice was offered to me at first because i would have saved a ton of $$$$$.

I have a light Jeep and Clayton 2.5" springs. Paired with Bilstein 5100 shocks. I think it rides great. Other people that have rode in it have also commented it rides nice.

What shocks did you have?

 

[dayusmc]

Currently I have Fox elite 2.5. Before I had the stock Mojave Fox shocks on it.
I took the stock Mojave shocks off, put them on my wife’s JL and put the elites on..

 

[Wheelin98TJ]

Currently I have Fox elite 2.5. Before I had the stock Mojave Fox shocks on it.
I took the stock Mojave shocks off, put them on my wife’s JL and put the elites on..

Mojave shocks are pretty short to pair with Clayton 2.5” coils. Fox shocks in the right length should’ve rode better. No good with the Fox shocks either?

 

[dayusmc]

Mojave shocks are pretty short to pair with Clayton 2.5” coils. Fox shocks in the right length should’ve rode better. No good with the Fox shocks either?

I used shock extensions on the stock Mojave shocks, the Elite’s I got are longer.
My truck rides great now. So does my wife’s JLU High-Tide with my old shocks. The High-Tide comes from the factory with a lift on it

 

[Bandit’s Lair]

What shocks did you have?

You beat me to it. I was going to ponder if a good set of shocks would take the stiffness feeling out of the springs. I’d rather have a high quality set of springs that won’t get tired in 2 years than some soft cushy ones that give up the ghost in the same amount of time.

 

[dayusmc]

Then you probably want OEM springs or Mopar ones…
The stock springs don’t go soft in 2 years I highly doubt that Mopar lift springs would either.
But to each their own. I have been there and done it. Finally got a good ride and I am never turning back.

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