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Used 1998 4.0 Jeep motor
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Start to remove wire harness, radaitor, and all engine mounts to pull motor.
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Oil pan and timing cover removed.
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Timing cover and alternator reinstalled.
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New exhaust manifold installed
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Intake manifold
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Engine ready to go back into jeep.
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Adding a 3" lift kit by Rough Country. New front coil springs, lower control arms, track bar relocation bracket, new shocks, and Pro Comp 3.5 leaf packs.
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Started by removing shocks, lower control arms, and sway bar links.
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New spring are only a couple of inches longer but dont compress as much as the old springs.
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New lower control arm and spring installed.
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Otherside spring and control arm.
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New steering stabilizer installed.
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Broke one of the sway bar links so I installed new ones on both sides.
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Picture of Jeep with front lift finished.
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From ground to top of fender trim is 34 inches.
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The back springs are shot, jeep had major sag.
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Started removing old spring.
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First spring came out easy, the other gave me a lot of problems. ended up grinding the bolts off.
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After about 3 hours I had both leaf springs off and every thing ready to install the new ones.
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New springs havent arrived yet so I block up the axle and had to wait a few days.
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Old springs heading to the junk.
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New springs finally showed up, for the most part they bolted right into place.
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New U bolts and shocks installed.
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First test drive I was getting some vibration in the back. I read about lowering your transfer case to level out the drive shaft. Most of these drop kits are nothing more then a spacer and longer bolts. A local steel shop gave me a piece of 1 1/4 square tubing and a stop at the hardware for longer bolts I had my T-drop for about 4 bucks.
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Since you need to get a front end alignment after installing the kit I decided to replace the tie rod ends. All three tie rods ran me about 40 bucks new on ebay.
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The only one I didnt replace was the long tie rod on the passenger side.
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Came out good, picture of Jeep with everything installed.
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The new leafs brought the back up to 36 inches. After some driving it leveled out to 34.
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