Well I didn't mention this in the first part of the front suspension post until I did a little more research on what to do with my current dilemma on the front suspesnion... As it turns out the lower spring mounts on the XJ axle are inboard on the axle about 1-1/2" per side and that will not allow the coil springs to clear the frame rails for mounting the upper coil spring mounts above the frame....So I placed the upper coil mounts on the bottom side of the frame and that is where my dilemma is right now.... The coils that are on the YJ now are off of a stock XJ and with the current configuration this is giving me about 7 inches of lift.... Most of you are probably saying " well that's not too bad, whats the big deal?" Well think of it this way, basically I have a set up that is 7 inches taller than stock but will flex like a stock rig and will cause Jeep to want to tip over.... The idea is not so much to have allot of lift but allot of suspension travel with little or no lift....
So to rectify the problem there are a couple schools of thought... First would be to section and narrow the frame rails in the coil spring area to allow for clearance of the coil and frame rail... This would take allot of fab work and time to get things exact... I can only see that happening by either cutting out allot of pieces with the plasma to weld together or design the plates up and have them laser cut.... Either way it would be allot of time or a few hundred bucks to have a shop laser cut them....Then I am still running coil springs and still have to find a way for mounting the shocks in a shock hoop.... The second thought is to ditch the coil springs alltogether and just put coil over shocks in... I have to buy shocks and a hoop anyway, why not spend a few extra bucks and have not limit to what I can do.... I found in my searching the net a company called F-O-A (First Over All suspension)... This company has got some pretty good coil over shocks for a extremely reasonable price.... I can get a pair of CO's for about 400.00 and I found a universal CO shock hoop kit for 300.00 including mounting brackets for the upper and lower mounts along with the halo bar to run across the engine compartment...
So since I have found F-O-A I have changed the direction I am going to go with the front suspension.... I have not started on changing that over yet and I may not get to that for a few weeks... But in the mean time there is plenty of other work to do since more parts have shown up here that I need to put on....
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