99superjeep01

Price wise that's pretty good. Who makes it? And your tires are about 30" then.

XJGrason

took mine to the local 4x4 place to check out the noise, while he was under there he noticed my driveline was most likely replaced, and he thinks its too short.....the PO or PO before here must have wrecked the shiznit out of it...

dirt_biker_guy

Its a rough country x series 4.5 lift. Adams rock crawler cv drive shaft, and heavy duty rugged ridge sye. Oh and it was $1145.

99superjeep01

That's pretty good. I'd go for it!

Eagle564

Meh I just hear bad things about RC. alot.

brdavis9

This was a gem of a discussion. Perfect. And good timing, as I think it cleared up something for me too. That I've been puzzled about.

If I've finally got this right, you don't need shackles for slider boxes. Slider boxes don't add lift, so whatever your current height is with your springs, it will pretty much stay the same; any lift is going to be courtesy of the leaf pack's built-in arch. Slider boxes also give you the same kind of "correction" that a shackle relocation box would give.

So. If I was going to spring for new shackles, bushings & associated hardware AND a shackle relocation box (if/as necessary to hit the 45° drive angle "sweet spot"), the price difference would be pretty much a wash?

And the slider is - maybe - a teeny less complicated/easier install (just because the leaf is going directly to it), than shackles+relocation box would be?

Sooooo ...over time, as the springs settle, and then age, the slider box will sort-of automatically compensate for that aging (until replacement is called for, again)?

Did I get this right?

I Leak Oil

Cuz its cheap.

JerrytheJeep

5.5 RE long arm kit, monotube shocks or twin tube shocks for a mostly DD, that might change though...

XJGrason

dont always rely on what people say about it, half the damn people who say RC is crap have never even used it. If they do sometimes they might have installed it wrong, broke something etc etc. you dont know until you try it. My RC lift is awesome.

BNJeepsta

Mono tube

NewKindOfClown

RC isn't a complete failure, but you probably wouldn't defend them so fiercely if you drove a lifted XJ with quality parts. RC is lower quality, and they (like Rusty's) ignore complaints and do nothing to fix quality control problems. Maybe you're the lucky one who got a good kit, and everyone else isn't stupid.

And yes, I have driven an RC lifted XJ for several weeks. It rode like my lifted XJ with 4dr JK Rubicon shocks--rough as hell.

BNJeepsta

X2. I have RC lowers and RC shocks. Rides like an unloaded dump truck and the "flex" joints lasted till I actually wheeled it.

brdavis9

I just found a link to this article while I was reading more on slider boxes in various forums. It's not really about sliders, but about understanding what's going on with leaf springs, shackles, and related stuff back there (including using sliders).

...I'd been wondering about what happens when you unbolt everything back there to replace leaf packs. This helped me to understand a bunch of stuff that I couldn't visualize, and certainly hadn't grasped the importance of. Science! (I had to read it veerrry slowly. And then re-read it. Three times.)

Link to Leaf Springs Tech article, courtesy of Afco Racing.

McCaffrey

There's enough threads here of people that have got defective RC parts. i.e. trackbar with wrong bends in it, leafs that are too short after RC changed manufactures. Then RC going on for months that nothing is wrong until finally admitting there's a problem.

dirt_biker_guy

What have you heard? I was also considering rubicon express. Theyre just more than ill have to spend. Lol