are pucks really that bad?

[85cj7]

so are body lift pucks bad, I could see how hey could pose more of a problem than complete poly replacements, like from daystar. also i could see they wouldn't really work if you had old torn rubber bushings, but i just replaced mine with new ply ones 6 months ago, and now i want a 1" bl for a cj7, can i do pucks or for 20 dollars more should i do complete replacement bushings?

[Sharpe]

Pucks arent that bad, thats what most body lifts use. I dont know how much $20 is worth to you but personaly I would just use pucks ***.

You should start a buildup thread for your truck and put all your questions in there to keep the board from getting clutered up.

[uglyota]

can you buy a 1" body lift? Usually you have to cut down 3" ones. Hockey pucks are the ticket, I'd give you some but I don't think I'll be back in town before new years

[eight]

Yes you can buy a 1" body lift for a jeep, or in his case a joop.

I don't think its the pucks that are the problem. More the height of the lift.

[85cj7]

what do you mean by joop?

[eight]

What's stamped in the side of the body, in front of the door, with ee painted over the oo.

[85cj7]

true i did notice that, but isn't it the same with the cj-8?

[eight]

Not before 84.

[robertf03]

I've changed my attitude toward body lifts, horrible idea

lets throw a spacer between the chassis and body. great idea.

cut the tub if you need tire clearance that bad, but only cut the tub if its a POS

[uglyota]

why? The body doesn't put much force on the frame, especially a jeep tub.

[robertf03]

what about during breaking and accelerating and turning corners?

[uglyota]

not much weight = not much inertia. Have you ever heard of a vehicle losing its body on the highway because it had a body lift and the body mount bolts snapped? hell half the wranglers on the road probably have a 3" body lift

[robertf03]

I've heard of several shearing all of the mounting bolts during low speed collisions.

but step out of the "it should work" way of thinking and ask yourself is it a good idea to shim the body from the chassis of a vehicle?

[CheapJeep]

I'm with flem on this. 4Wheelparts won't even install suspension lifts on vehicles with body lifts and vice versa. A few years back they were sued because a vehicle with a body lift and suspension lift wrecked and the body came off the chassis. :eek:

[CRaSHnBuRN]

do a small body lift, then tie the body and frame together with a cage, problem solved. I don't care for bodylifts, but decided to do a 2 inch one on the 4runner so I can run flatter, more flexy sping packs, and do a drivetrain lift without having to butcher the floorboard. Granted, toys have fully boxed frames, and very little frame flex, and I went with a better body lift with heavier hardware than stock, but I don't think it will be a problem

[TexTJ209]

not much weight = not much inertia. Have you ever heard of a vehicle losing its body on the highway because it had a body lift and the body mount bolts snapped? hell half the wranglers on the road probably have a 3" body lift

3" Body Lift.

http://fsjworld.tenmagazines.com/gallery/treeshark/84800.jpg

[CheapJeep]

Holy Sh!t!!! That's awful.... :(

[CRaSHnBuRN]

the simple fact that not only the body ripped off the frame, but so did the drivetrain makes me wonder if there is more to this, like the wreck being extremely violent (yeah thats kinda obvious), excessive rust, or something else like not using the correct bolts, etc.

[CRaSHnBuRN]

another thing, don't buy the POS performance accessories bodylifts. Look into the 4crawler ones. They are made of a much better material, are much wider, and use heavier duty hardware, and can be tailor made to fit the height you need

[CheapJeep]

Agreed. I've installed a few P.A. body lift kits and they just seem to be really cheaply made. Alot of the parts to move bumpers and stuff are really crappy. I think they're fine for street driven rigs and stuff but for a pure offroad rig I'd look for something of better quality. Don't want to be like Will and lose pucks/body mounts on an rti ramp... :flipoff2: Just my $.02

[agjohn02]

my 1" body lift was made in slovakia

[fbronco86]

From the start body lifts sound cheap. But there are some things you have to look at steering shaft, shift linkage, fan shroud etc. The costs add up.

If you just need a little room I would do some fender trimming.

[TMatheaus]

i have a 3" on my truck, its been fine but i wouldn't do it again, the kit for my truck had no brackets for the bumpers, so i made my own, the only thing that i had to extend was the shift linkage, i shouldn't have been a joo and just spent the skrilla on a larger susp lift

[AggieTJ2007]

I used a currie body lift and I really liked it. The pucks actually sit over the stock body bushings, it uses grade 8 hardware but it doesn't come with any brackets.

and on body lifts don't go more than inch to 1.5 inches

[BMFScout]

We put a 1" on Lissa's, it's not that big of a deal just don't go more than an 1" to 1.5" It starts to look really goofy after that.

[73bronco]

I've got a 2" bl to clear some brackets under the bronco, never had any problems with it. But bronco body mounts are alot beefier than jeeps