Started:
31 October 2003
Planned finish date is:
30 November 2003
Come back and see! Good stuff.
I gotta pee, really really bad. Bye!
Look in the first writer's OPINION...you'll see that he's bitching about a sway bar that will hit the A-arm in about 1.5 inches of travel. What!? Ok, Ok...it is close, but so what! They're obviously not mechanically inclined, so I'll type slowly for them. There's this thingy called a sway bar link. Well, it attaches the sway-bar end to the A-arm. So, now if the A-arm moves, so does the sway-bar. It's the way ALL sway bars work. The only time it would ever, ever, ever make contact with the A-arm was if you disconnected this link. I would never do this on the stock IFS in the first place. You could mod up a method, but until you get seriously off the beaten path, I just wouldn't (all you'd have to do is loosen the sway bar in the mounts, remove the link all together, move the sway-bar out of the way, then tighten the mounts back up).
They also claim that Jeep intended this to be a grocery getter and that the XJ just wasn't good for that. Huh? There's more room in an XJ. Simply, Jeep wanted big, medium, and small (Grand Cherokee, Liberty, Wrangler). All are Jeeps, and I will swear to you that all are good off-road.
Then he goes on about replacing the I6 w/ the V6 being a bad thing. The I6 had issues. It was problamatic. The V6 has 210HP. It has a great torque curve. The "power numbers" are just fine for the smaller KJ.
The next guy's just a biggot. I took my stock KJ with the street wrangler tires on it through Moab. Enough said. It went up slickrock for pete's sake! The only thing that stopped it was big rocks that not even the stock XJ could cross.
As I read on, it's just a KJ hate mongering page. Fuck 'em. Fuck 'em all. Pardon me, but they are idiots. I'd love to have a rubicon. But not all people desire the roughness of a wrangler all the time. I have 56,000 miles on my KJ. I drive it alot obviously. I would not trade a second for all that traveling in a Wrangler at all. If the Grand Cherokee was $20K cheaper, then that would be a great vehicle. But it's not.
If anyone knows how to get a comment on there, email me!!!!!! It's too one-sided and they need a trout-slapped up side the head.
I gotta go finish this lift, so go deal with these bastards for me, will ya?