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2 Questions About Rake!

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Old Jan 17, 2011 | 03:31 PM
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1- Just installed a Smitty front bumper and Xrc 8 winch on my 2010 Sahara 2 Door, it has a Teraflex 2.5inch suspension system (with the 9550 socks). To me, it seems like the bumper+winch has sagged the front end down, even though I am not 100% sure? How can I measure? Like where would I want to measure to see how much lower the front end sits than the back? Frame? Bumper? Roof?

2- If I was going to add a lift to level it, would a set of .75 inch spacers in the front be too little to make it level? Too much? Just right ?


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Old Jan 17, 2011 | 03:42 PM
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what you can do as well is get a couple spacers since they are dirt cheap and see what fits your preference.

maybe a 1/2" to 3/4" in the front and if necessary to level it out again, another 1/2" in the rear.

Depends on your taste, some out there like a little bit of rake
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Old Jan 17, 2011 | 04:20 PM
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Originally Posted by ECHO
I HATE the rake
I could not agree more, Echo. It makes a Jeep look more like a car. I almost threw up a little
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Old Jan 17, 2011 | 04:25 PM
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Originally Posted by ECHO
I ended up putting a 1/2" spacer in the rear coils as well, after adding a hard top and rear bumper
after i add my bumpers it will essentially cancel eachother out...but ill be so low that i might rub
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Old Jan 17, 2011 | 04:41 PM
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When the center sections of the frame rails (under the doors) are level:

The bottom of the front end of the frame rail sits 75.8mm (2.98") higher than the bottom of the rear end of the frame rail.

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