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2.5"lift to 3" lift now ride quality is terrible. Any input please

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Old Apr 11, 2015 | 09:02 AM
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So the back story. I had a teraflex 2.5 coil lift with fox res shocks for 2"-3.5" lift . I then added poison Spyder brawler front and rear bumper with tire carrier and 34" tires, engine and trans skid plate ,winch
I think that is all the heavy items.
Needless to say my coils sagged and soon led to my jku bottoming out on every bump. It destroyed the stock bumpstops. So I bought
Teraflex 3" coils installed new bumpstops all around and added teraflex speed bumps in the rear. Now the problem. I love the height of the jeep.
But the front is about 1/2 " lower than the rear

Also feels like the shocks may be limiting the coils.

The speedbumps in the rear have little to no clearance between speedbump and bumpstop.

So my question is could it be the coils sagging ?

Maybe shocks aren't long enough for the coil height?

Should I swap out coils for a 3.5" coil
Should I swap out shocks for a 4-6" lift

Just looking to not feel like I'm always bottoming out. Or not enough up travel.
Hope this makes sense

I'm sure the pros on here will have great input. And please any and all input is welcome.
Thanks guys
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Old Apr 11, 2015 | 11:01 AM
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Take your shocks out of the equation for now.. They arent bottoming out and running a longer shock will only make it worse.

How much bumpstop are you running? Try reducing the amount of additional bumpstop to the bare minimum, I.E. enough to keep the shocks from bottoming out or tires from contacting the body.

Also, you may benefit from running a progressive or dual rate coil. It has a tighter coil pack at the top which will compress first to compensate for the added weight of bumpers/ armor/ etc.
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Old Apr 11, 2015 | 02:02 PM
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Ok. I'm not sure I follow when you say to reduce the bumpstops to a minimum. The rubber pieces that are pressed into the bumpstop ?
Should I cut some of the rubber off ?
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Old Apr 12, 2015 | 06:21 AM
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Some photos might help, are you running factory shocks or after market? If after market what are the collapsed lengths. I would tend to agree with D_engle as most people I see don't know how to properly set up bump stops and shock, they just install what came in the box. What size speed bumps did you install? Did you ever measure to see what you actually got out of the lift? IF so how much actual lift did you get? 34" tires should only need 1" of extra bump stop over the factory no matter what size lift you are running if you still have factory fender flairs.
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Old Apr 12, 2015 | 08:33 AM
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I'll take some photos and post them up.
I'm running a 3"teraflex coil front and rear
Teraflex speedbumps 3-4" in rear
And fox 2.5-3.5" reservoir shocks all around
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Old Apr 12, 2015 | 10:38 AM
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Here are some pics
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Old Apr 12, 2015 | 10:39 AM
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