EVO Says to remove rear caliper during lift install?

[Jems007]

I've lifted a few JKs, but never a JL or JT personally. The EVO instructions on my 2.5" Enforcer Overland tell me to remove the caliper prior to installing the coil and bump stop, then reinstall. IS this really necessary? Does anyone know why? It doesn't tell you to replace the brake lines until after its already installed, which I have hard is optonal in the first place. Thoughts?

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[kevman65]

I don't know their reasoning, but it could be to give you more axle droop during the spring removal and install.

If you remove the calipers and hang them from the frame, you have no restriction from brake lines.

 

[Renegade]

I don't know their reasoning, but it could be to give you more axle droop during the spring removal and install.

If you remove the calipers and hang them from the frame, you have no restriction from brake lines.

This is correct. You will be dropping the axle beyond the length of the brake lines. Once the lift is installed, your shocks (if sized properly) should limit the extension to within the length of the brake lines.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

There is JUST ENOUGH brake hose to sneak out the stock springs and slip them back in - JUST enough. So........... anything longer/taller........

 

[TTEChris]

If you are replacing the brake lines there is no reason to pull off the caliper. Just clamp the old rubber lines with some vice grips while you do the rest of the work then bolt the new ones in place as a final step.

If you are keeping the old lines and they are long enough for your shocks then it makes sense to hang the caliper for the extra down travel as mentioned above.

 

[Jems007]

There is JUST ENOUGH brake hose to sneak out the stock springs and slip them back in - JUST enough. So........... anything longer/taller........

theres no way I could have gotten the new springs in the rear without removing the caliper. Maybe if you’re just swapping for rubicon springs from a sport, burn I could barely get the new evo 2.5” coils in with the track bar and sway bar end links discod.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

theres no way I could have gotten the new springs in the rear without removing the caliper. Maybe if you’re just swapping for rubicon springs from a sport, burn I could barely get the new evo 2.5” coils in with the track bar and sway bar end links discod.

Mine is an Overland......
I swapped out the Overland rear springs and put max tow springs in the back, and swapped out the Overland front springs and put Rubicon springs up front.

IF I had used a lift kit - meaning spacers OR longer springs, I would have likely run out of brake hose and had to take the calipers loose. I think I described in my spring and shock swap thread that I had JUST enough brake hose to do the spring swap. If the springs had been 1.5 to 2" taller, I'd either have had to compress them, or take calipers loose.

So in short, if you used anything adding 2" or more height to the springs, yeah, calipers off..... That's my opinion, anyway!

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