Fixing a Drooping Rear

[Matt]

Pretty much... except that he has a lot more down travel than us OME guys which makes a big difference offroad.

[thance]

What down travel?

[Matt]

Suspension down travel. His hub-fender measurements when his suspension is maxed out is going to be a solid 4" further than ours up front.

Except for parking lots, theres a lot more benefits to a real suspension lift beyond static ride height.

Edit.. lol or are you just making fun of your almost non-existent down travel as measured in your other thread...

[thance]

Suspension down travel. His hub-fender measurements when his suspension is maxed out is going to be a solid 4" further than ours up front.

Except for parking lots, theres a lot more benefits to a real suspension lift beyond static ride height.

Edit.. lol or are you just making fun of your almost non-existent down travel as measured in your other thread...

I have no "down travel".

[thance]

Besides for longer travel struts (which I'm not sure exist for our application) is there anything we can do to increase down travel?

Are the struts ( and the fact that the HD springs keep them nearly fully expanded sitting in the parking lot) the sole limiting factor? Or, might JBA or other upper control arms help?

I've thought about measuring the height of the exposed threads on top of the center strut nut and putting a spacer that size under the upper mount. (so that the exposed threads would be below the nut rather than above). This would likely add 1.5" of down travel. I should have measured down travel before cranking that nut down, but always in a rush....... I do know cranking the nut down did not change the ride height.

[06JeepXKHEMI]

There a few factors in our limited down travel, CVs being one of them and actually the whole IFS set up in general.. New struts really wont make much difference, adding the SL is the only way to increase DT other than upgrading to RCVs which will help but youll still have the other components to consider like steering rack, etc...