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What Lift Kit to Pick! Spacer or Coil Spring

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Old Jan 10, 2012 | 06:43 AM
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Default What Lift Kit to Pick! Spacer or Coil Spring

im either going to go with a teraflex 2.5 spacer or a 2.5 coil spring... im stuck on what to do. What one is better ride wise an performace, im going to with fox racing shoxs... Are they really good?
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Old Jan 10, 2012 | 12:48 PM
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It depends on what you're going to do with the Jeep. If it's primarily going to be street driven, go with the coil spacers. If you do take it off-road and will be adding off-road bumpers, go with the coil spring kit. The spacer kit will not hold the weight of aftermarket steel bumpers and will sag.

Also, unless you plan on running the Baja 1000, save your money and go with a set of Bilstein 5100 shocks. Good shocks are key in having a good ride on and off the road.
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Old Jan 10, 2012 | 12:53 PM
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Always coils over spacers....especially if you are running Fox. But I will agree with the Bilsteins, I have them with my 2.5" TF coils and love the ride and flex! Youcan come up and try it out sometime if you want to!
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Old Jan 10, 2012 | 06:02 PM
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Originally Posted by curtisc19
Always coils over spacers....especially if you are running Fox. But I will agree with the Bilsteins, I have them with my 2.5" TF coils and love the ride and flex! Youcan come up and try it out sometime if you want to!
heck Yeah if im up that way i will def!.. Bowling green sucks for install, i have no idea who installs here, what does the 2.5 with those shocks run? with install
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Old Jan 10, 2012 | 06:32 PM
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If its in the budget, go with the coil lift
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Old Jan 10, 2012 | 06:36 PM
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I have the Tf 2.5 coil lift with the non res fox shocks. I paid $840 for the kit with shocks from orw. If you have basic tools and a jack you can do the install yourself its not that hard. Here is my jeep on 37s with that lift.
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Old Jan 10, 2012 | 06:43 PM
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go with the coil lift and fox 2.0's

I run this setup with fox reservoirs in the front, but they're overkill. If you go with the coil lift you won't be one of those guys posting they wish they would have skipped the budget boost. I see that everyday on here, but I never see guys say I wish I would have just got a puck lift instead of coils.
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