My Liberty

[dnuttyone]

OK, you know I am new here. I have a Liberty but I love to take it off road (waht offroading I can do that is). Anyone else have a Liberty? My dream is a Wrangler but in the mean time I will settle for getting a lift and bigger tires. I am looking at Rusty's Offroad for a lift but it says it os for up to a 2006. I have a 07, would it fit?

[Jdemonto@Airpark Jeep Sales]

OK, you know I am new here. I have a Liberty but I love to take it off road (waht offroading I can do that is). Anyone else have a Liberty? My dream is a Wrangler but in the mean time I will settle for getting a lift and bigger tires. I am looking at Rusty's Offroad for a lift but it says it os for up to a 2006. I have a 07, would it fit?

I would be carefull with liberty BB or spacer lifts hard on the infamous balljoints! I know skyjackacker makes strut and spring replacements 3" If i rememeber right! Also check out:

Looks like the Rockfather kits will be good

http://www.rocky-road.com/kjsus.html

I have heard good things about the franken lift

http://www.boulderbars.com/

[pldamian]

OK, you know I am new here. I have a Liberty but I love to take it off road (waht offroading I can do that is). Anyone else have a Liberty? My dream is a Wrangler but in the mean time I will settle for getting a lift and bigger tires. I am looking at Rusty's Offroad for a lift but it says it os for up to a 2006. I have a 07, would it fit?



http://www.virtualjeepclub.com/forumdisplay.php?f=68
you will find all the of posts in here something your rig should be able to handle.

[AZXJ]

OK, you know I am new here. I have a Liberty but I love to take it off road (waht offroading I can do that is). Anyone else have a Liberty? My dream is a Wrangler but in the mean time I will settle for getting a lift and bigger tires. I am looking at Rusty's Offroad for a lift but it says it os for up to a 2006. I have a 07, would it fit?



Stay away from Rusty's stuff.. :aagh:


If you need some help with your liberty, let me know.. We have many products for the Liberty that aren't rusty's..


Take care and Welcome aboard.
Dave
480-288-4213

[phxtoad]

Welcome!

First, try the LOST forum for Liberty specific information and advice.
http://lostkjs.com

Even if you do not lift, go ahead and just plan on swapping out your factory lower ball joints for greasable Moog ball joints. They are far superior. As for spacer lifts, I ran the Daystar 2.5" lift for 5 years. I now run the Frankenlift.

The issue you will find out with any lift is the upper control arms will need to be replaced regularly given the fact that the factory upper ball joint is not serviceable, nor replaceable. You are stuck replacing the whole arm. With a lift it will contact the coil at full droop and that torque's the ball joints prematurely. 'Jeepin by Al' makes longer arms with stout replaceable ball joints to solve this problem.

My advice is to get skids first, then better tires until you have enough money for a full lift. 32's are really the largest you can squeeze under a KJ, but they will rub. 31's are generally what most people run with a 2.5" lift.

Cheers!

Todd

[dnuttyone]

I would be carefull with liberty BB or spacer lifts hard on the infamous balljoints! I know skyjackacker makes strut and spring replacements 3" If i rememeber right! Also check out:

Looks like the Rockfather kits will be good

http://www.rocky-road.com/kjsus.html

I have heard good things about the franken lift

http://www.boulderbars.com/

ok so I went to the rocky road web sight and my ? is can I use the 2.5" budget lift for $214 and the upper control arms that they sell for $89 together?

[Jdemonto@Airpark Jeep Sales]

ok so I went to the rocky road web sight and my ? is can I use the 2.5" budget lift for $214 and the upper control arms that they sell for $89 together?

Not sure, I had that cheap lift on my liberty and it jacked up the ball joints. I would only use a lift that uses new springs, like the franken lift.

Jason

[ROKBITR]

Should've bought an XJ. :whistling:

:worthless:

[gefelix]

As you can see, many good, experienced people out there to guide you in the right direction. Welcome.

[oldhockeyvb]

I had a Rusty's suspension lift on my 2002 liberty for five years with zero problems. I wheeled it hard too. Frankenlift is also very popular. Check out the LOST forum posted earlier and come play with us. PM me if you want some more information.

[corwyyn]

ok so I went to the rocky road web sight and my ? is can I use the 2.5" budget lift for $214 and the upper control arms that they sell for $89 together?
The UCAs that Rusty's sells are the same as the factory units, i.e. not serviceable. Jeepin' By Al's (http://www.jeepinbyal.com/) sells some arms that are made to fit lifted Libertys. And if you can save up the money, the Rusty's suspension lift that Vern runs is a good one, or there are several other good lifts out there by Daystar, All J's, etc. Please stay away from any lift that uses a top strut spacer (typically referred to as an OTT lift) as the only thing it will do is blow out your front shocks.

And as mentioned come on over the the LOST site and join our AZ group, we go out quite often and have fun:
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k180/corwyyn/FITS/going-down.jpg

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k180/corwyyn/walnut%20canyon/walnut13.jpg

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k180/corwyyn/jeep%20stuff/vern1.jpg

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k180/corwyyn/jeep%20stuff/co-large-002.jpg

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k180/corwyyn/jeep%20stuff/co-large-006.jpg

[dnuttyone]

Why stay away from strut spacers?

[arczech]

As you can see, many good, experienced people out there to guide you in the right direction. Welcome.

X2 Was going to say the same thing.
Welcome aboard

[Jdemonto@Airpark Jeep Sales]

Why stay away from strut spacers?

The strut spacer will tear up your ball joints and blow out your front shocks/struts

Jason

[Savage]

Looking at the pictures of your Liberty working the trails, I would say it's at least as capable as the Isuzu Trooper I once owned (many Jeepers will cringe at the mention of it), which carried us all over the AZ backcountry for a couple years. Of course, I am the type that explores remote destinations and stuff, as opposed to rockcrawling just for the sake of it. I think that most stock 4x4's, even with IFS, are quite capble when driven accordingly. Welcome!