Last night my wife and I began the installation of the Teraflex BB lift w/shocks. After printing out all the instruction on this site and printing the full size illustrations, we began. Everything is pretty straight forward except for the Teraflex instructions, throw those out. The write-up here is far superior.

We finished the left rear and will be starting today to get the rest done. One thing I'm glad I bought was a full size long arm floor jack. It has 34" of travel and also adds a great deal of security over smaller jacks.

After printing all the materials, we spent about 2 1/2 hours on that one wheel. The others will take 1 hour each now that I am more familiar with it. Make sure you have all the necessary tools you'll need before you start. We had to improvise in some areas because we lacked socket adapters to change from different drive sizes. Picking those up today. Great instructions and a bit of fun so far!

 

Congrats...Are you planning on using 33s or 35" tires? Please post some pics, would like to see them when the lift is completed

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Yes please post pictures when your done. I'm seriously looking at this lift with 33's

 

You are a LUCKY GUY! Does she have a sister?

 

congratulations on the lift and thats very cool that your wife helps, yeah show some pics of your hard work!!

 

Me and two friends of mine knocked out this lift in a little over 5 hours, to include running around town looking for a bolt...

Not only does the Jeep look great but it handles great off-road. You will be you went TF.

BTW kudos on the wife helping!!! My wife handed out the beers...does that count?

 

Just got back from my pole barn and the jeep is completed. It looks great. We went with BFG 33's 305/70-16's with Procomp wheels and Wow! I am impressed with the look and feel of this kit. It popped it up 3" and a bit stiffer with the Terraflex shocks. Ride is nice but I do notice a little change in the feel. Has just a little drift but not bad at all. We went with the BDS bracket for the trackbar and it goes on great and the axil is centered perfectly.

Centering the steering wheel was the easiest part of the installation. All in all, it was a lot of work (for a non mechanic) but not difficult. You do need the proper tools. Torc wrench, several socket drives, long sockets, open socket wrenches, metrics, full size printout of instructions and pictures from this site (thanks), long arm floor jack, compressor and air gun (nice but not necessary), light stand, grease gun, large sheets of cardboard (to lay on cold concrete floor) and patients. Using the floor jack to press the Terraflex components up into their place was a bit awkward but was easier using blocks of wood. Some of the Terraflex spacers had plastic seams inside from their manufacturing process that created resistance to pressing them up into the Jeep housing. The grease was helpful.

Knee pads are also nice as you spend a lot of time crawling around your Jeep.

I took some pictures but it was dark when we finished so I'll take some more tomorrow. I really am impressed with this kit and would buy it again knowing what I know. That said, I can say it gives you a bit of satisfaction in installing this kit and I have a pretty good idea of how the suspension works now. Also, it takes a great deal of time to install this kit. I'm glad I choose to do it myself over letting some outfit do it for me. I can see how someone could shortcut the process and not pay attention to details and torc specs when installing this kit. I'm confident in the fact that I followed all the specs and know it was installed right.

Thanks for all the help and info on this site. Could not have done it without you.

Oh, and by the way, I do have a very special wife. She surprises me every day. First thing she did when the kit was installed was drive through the field next to my barn! That's special!

 

Thats cool man congrats. All my wife did was complain about the 3k I spent on parts until it was all put together then all she wanted was to be seen (in her words) in the pretty new jeep!

 

Sweet. Our wives must be related, she helped me too. Took us 3 hours start to finish, but we had experience with our TJ before, so I guess we cheated. You'll like the TF kit, it isn't too tall, isn't too low, and let's you run a big tire. The drift you referred to is probably caused by the negative caster associated with the increased height, and the increased center of gravity. I added 3/4" spacers to the front of mine to help level the stance and really noticed the caster issue afterwards (now sitting at 3 1/4" of front lift). I ordered some adj. front upper control arms (backordered) and that should take care of it.

 

Thanks nukeman.

I need to drive it a bit more to see if the drift bothers me or not. It is very slight. I can then decide on the uppers. FT seems to be a good choice here.