Anyone have any experience/opinion on this lift? Im looking for an affordible lift, but do not want to throw money away, Im on a pretty tight budget.

 

I've had it on my Jeep for a whopping 24 hrs.....so far so good. Install wasn't bad. Took me about 5-6 hours by myself with lots of screwing around and a break for dinner.

I ran a bunch of errands today totaling about 50 miles of mixed highway and secondary roads. So far, I'm really pleased. My front axle is shifted about 1/4" towards the drivers side, so I will probably end up ordering an adjustable track bar at some point.......but I'm not in a hurry.

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and hot off the presses about 5 min ago with some daylight

 

Thanks, it looks good

 

Thats a pretty rough blanket statement. The rear has a track bar bracket that is plenty beefy enough to do the job. My rear axle is centered damn near perfect. The front axle is only off by about 1/4", thats not enough to get excited about. It still allows me to use my quick disconnects without any drama, and seems to handle fine. After driving it today on the highway at 70mph, I don't think front adjustable arms are a necessity.

As far as the driveshafts, I think that more depends on what kind of JK you put it on. With mine being a 2-door, I know I'm going to need a rear driveshaft (and rear upper control arms) eventually because its at a pretty steep angle, but I don't see an issue with the front. Even at full droop it looks like it should be OK. If I had an Automatic that might be a different case due to the transmission pan, but there is plenty of room under there with the manual tranny. I'll bet a 4-door 6-speed Unlimited could run this lift without even worrying about either drive shaft. The 2.2 shocks included in the kit only allow another 1.5" of droop over the stock shocks (per my side by side measurements yesterday), so its not as dramatic or potentially damaging as going with something like a lot of the long travel shocks that companies are marketing with these ~3" lifts.

 

If they are still using the progressive coils stay away. I had this lift for 4mos then added RR front and rear bumpers and dropped 1.75" then rode like shit. I switched to OME coils and have been happy ever since. Not bashing RC here, I've used their products before and have been happy just not with the coils.

 

Their new kits have changed from progressive coils... A great little kit at a good price is the Rock Krawler 2.5 mod.. Coils (almost give you 3"), front track bar, rear monster bracket all for 450$ at northridge..

 

I dont have this kit.....I have the 3.5" lift kit from Rough Country....it comes with a few more goodies. It's a little more money that what you are looking for.....if you can swing the extra cash...go for the 3.5" lift.

If you can't......this looks like a pretty good kit for the money.

I can tell you from personal experience that their CUSTOMER SERVICE and standing behind their product is the BEST i have ever experienced!!!

It's nice to know if you have a problem they take care of you!

 

I have a 2dr i used the RC 4" kit no special drive shafts needed the only one you may have to change is the front if you are running an automatic. As for the RC lifts i installed a 3.5 on a friends 4Dr JK and it has worked out great. I personally used Coils for a 4Dr on my 2Dr just to compensate for my heavy bumpers and winch and tools...Etc. I got a total on about 5 inches of lift. And also with any spring you will get settling because you are fighting gravity.For the money you cant beat a RC lift and there customer support is outstanding.

 

Like the last 2 guys I went with 3.5"RC lift come with everything u need. Works great I did buy the RC duel steering stabilizing kit and it made a big difference on the steering worth the money.