HomemadeTurbo - DIY Turbo Forum - fook isnt the only one with a jeep

After looking at that kit, I am going with a big "eww"

They have aspects I like, and aspects I dont like.

1. I like the fact they use Rubber Bushings, good for a DD, many will knock it, but unless you're building a trailer queen designed for the rocks, all those johnny joints are overkill. My arms definitely dont limit my travel.

2. They use Heckathorn/Rough Country components, which is good and bad. I actually like their coils, they'll be stiff at first, but once you drive em and wheel em for a little while, they end up perfect as far as spring rate goes. The shocks are just kind of a blah shock, don't bother and save the money for some gas charged OME's or bilsteins

3. Way overpriced. You could do alot better for less. (aka buy springs and lift components and longarms seperately)

4. Y-link design with a single upper, good because it performs well, I run it and it works. BAD because the Y is solid, no adjustability. Let's say your springs settle 2 inches from a heavy bumper you add next year, now your castor and pinion angles are off, and you have no adjustability to dial it in. The kit assumes that the lift they give you is perfect height, and will be the same on every Jeep and it will never change.

5. Solid swaybar links, why even bother. It's obvious that if you're doing that kind of an upgrade to a WJ that you're going to use it.

6. Build the front, skip the rear? They go full on with longarms up front, but only give you a set of lowers for the rear? half-assed.

7. I am just going to assume that trackbar is crap.

Yeah its only $1500 while you'll spend $2300 on a clayton's kit, but for the extra 800 bucks, the superiority of the clayton kit makes the IRO kit look like monkey ----.