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Old Jan 16, 2016 | 05:21 AM
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Ok I'm a newbie here looking for info. I have a 2015 unlimited rubicon. I'm running 35's on a 2.5 in lift. What type of front end/rear end upgrades would you make? We bought this to offroad. We will drive it to offroad places with popup.
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Old Jan 16, 2016 | 05:41 AM
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At least install gussets on the Cs. Sleeve or truss. Though the sleeve/truss topic is often debated at to its effectiveness.
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Old Jan 16, 2016 | 06:26 AM
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Originally Posted by denham45
Ok I'm a newbie here looking for info. I have a 2015 unlimited rubicon. I'm running 35's on a 2.5 in lift. What type of front end/rear end upgrades would you make? We bought this to offroad. We will drive it to offroad places with popup.
If you are talking about your axles, then none are needed. I'm assuming that since you are talking about camping with a pop up. So I'm guessing that you're not rock crawling, and you already have Dana 44 in front. Which can handle those 35's pretty easily.

If you really want to spend some money though, gusset the Cs and leave it at that.
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Old Jan 16, 2016 | 06:28 AM
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It all depends what kind of off roading you plan to do. If you are gonna play in the rocks, then You'll need under armor as well as trussing the front diff housing. Regular trail riding and over landing it will be fine as is.
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Old Jan 16, 2016 | 06:30 AM
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What they said. Gusset the C's and maybe add a nice thick diff cover like riddler or poison spyder. I'm also a fan of front lower control arm skids like the ones from artec or evo
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Old Jan 17, 2016 | 05:13 AM
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I would get a oil pan skid to include the gussets.

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Old Jan 17, 2016 | 04:18 PM
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i have the evo gusset kit includes control arm skids the prob is it lead me to buy synergy ball joints and at the same time spicer axle joints and after that it was said to be 750 bucks to install it all . So its all sitting in the corner till
my stock things wear out before i spend that . So it turned into a $ 1,100 .00 project why fix it till its btoke

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