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Body Lift, Wish me luck

Postby akley88 » Fri Aug 30, 2013 9:48 am

ok so tonight i am planning on doing my body lift. we'll see how it goes. i will post pics if i remember.


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Postby doctahjones » Fri Aug 30, 2013 10:06 am

shouldn't be too hard, at least changing the mounts. the very front ones seemed to be the hardest for me to swap out (when i was just replacing with oem), but since you don't have a fender liner and all that....

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Postby doctahjones » Fri Aug 30, 2013 10:08 am

here's the write up i did. i realize you'll probably be doing more than just the mounts (steering extension, etc?)


http://www.thenissanpath.com/viewtopic.php?t=8092

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Postby akley88 » Fri Aug 30, 2013 5:58 pm

some people need the steering extension and some dont according to club frontier. all i have to do is the rear bumper and put the extension on the drive shaft hoop. damn does it tire you out when you do it all with hand tools

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Postby akley88 » Sat Aug 31, 2013 5:55 am

ok it turns out i need the steering shaft extension. anybody know how to get the shaft apart to install the extension

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Postby doctahjones » Sat Aug 31, 2013 9:01 am

akley88 wrote:some people need the steering extension and some dont according to club frontier. all i have to do is the rear bumper and put the extension on the drive shaft hoop. damn does it tire you out when you do it all with hand tools
no doubt! i picked up a 18v impact driver for working on the jeep. it won't loosen -everything-, but it will get most things...

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Postby akley88 » Sat Aug 31, 2013 11:58 am

any body know of way to get the steering shaft to come apart to get the extension in.

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Postby akley88 » Sun Sep 01, 2013 8:42 am

steering issue fixed. okay as for the kit i would say id give it 3 out of 5 stars. they sent me the wrong rear bumper brackets. the directions are vage. they didnt warn about the power steering bottle needing to be lower found that out the hard way. i also had to "adjust" som holes on the brackets. the stuff in the kit is quality and the car looks so much better now. i will post pics later. just to give you an idea. the front bottom highest point on the front fender is 42" to the ground.

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Postby iheartmypathy » Sun Sep 01, 2013 8:29 pm

im dying to see pics.... where did you buy the lift from?

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Postby akley88 » Mon Sep 02, 2013 3:33 pm

here are some pics.
keep in mind these are 33.6" tall tires and the bottle of water is 17 oz botttle
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Postby iheartmypathy » Mon Sep 02, 2013 5:12 pm

WOW. that looks effing AWESOME.

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Postby t0pnotch1 » Wed Sep 04, 2013 7:49 am

very nice!

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Postby akley88 » Wed Sep 04, 2013 9:59 am

now im just trying to a stock pathfinder to compare to

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Postby doctahjones » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:42 pm

yup, that's pretty dang awesome....almost makes me want to sell my jeep and use the money for new control arms, lift, tires........almost...

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Postby nismofan » Thu Sep 05, 2013 12:21 am

Looks good! How many inches of lift did you put?


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