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General Forums => The Mess Hall => Topic started by: rcmerlin on September 06, 2006, 10:33:18 AM
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I want to add a 1" MML when I add my 1" BL (So I do not have to mess with the fan shroud and to help alignment for a 2" BB lift). Should I use the JKS Budget Blocks or a 1" motor mount lift (like a MORE)? The current mounts are probably in good shape. Only 50K miles.
'97 TJ 2.5L
Thanks :?:
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I want to add a 1" MML when I add my 1" BL (So I do not have to mess with the fan shroud and to help alignment for a 2" BB lift). Should I use the JKS Budget Blocks or a 1" motor mount lift (like a MORE)? The current mounts are probably in good shape. Only 50K miles.
'87 TJ 2.5L
Thanks :?:
You have a '87 or you have a TJ? This makes a difference. You might want to read this: http://www.4bangerjp.com//reviews/jksbudgetmounts/
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Sorry.... It is a '97. :oops:
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If you use the spacer you won't have to drill anything since that's only on the YJ. The TJ is bolt-on.
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Thanks, but should I just use the aluminum block spacers (JKS about $50) or go ahead and replace the mounts with lifted ones (MORE about $130).
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Thanks, but should I just use the aluminum block spacers (JKS about $50) or go ahead and replace the mounts with lifted ones (MORE about $130).
It depends on what you want to do. The article goes thought the differences to some extent.
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Well, if you have this happen to you (as it did to me), you learn to improvise and wind up with a more stout solution than the OE crap they throw on the passenger side. There's that insignificant bracket that attaches to the frame point, which can shear on both sides of the pressed bolt, which you probably won't notice until you start with say, the driver side motor mount. The driver side insulator was crushed from the torque of a crash where I was sandwiched between 2 cars, so I took the opportunity while doing the 1" BL, to lift the engine too.
As soon as I pulled the driver side bolt out, the engine 'fell' back into the firewall because the other side bracket was broken. It took 2 hours, a pry bar and couple of jacks to get the engine pushed back forward enough to re-mount it, but the bracket in question that was sheared, is an OE only part which isn't typically in stock. Solution? A primered piece of drilled 2"x2" square tube, which operates as the bracket AND MML for the passenger side. I still used a JKS 1" MML on the driver side, with the only 'issue' being that the passenger side is ~1/8" higher than the driver side. But, I can live with that. :o
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/b_casteel/Project%20JEEP/Crash/100_0035.jpg)
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www.goferitoffroad.com has a 1" spacer kit for around $35, I've installed several and it's a decent kit.
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Well, if you have this happen to you (as it did to me), you learn to improvise and wind up with a more stout solution than the OE crap they throw on the passenger side. There's that insignificant bracket that attaches to the frame point, which can shear on both sides of the pressed bolt, which you probably won't notice until you start with say, the driver side motor mount. The driver side insulator was crushed from the torque of a crash where I was sandwiched between 2 cars, so I took the opportunity while doing the 1" BL, to lift the engine too.
As soon as I pulled the driver side bolt out, the engine 'fell' back into the firewall because the other side bracket was broken. It took 2 hours, a pry bar and couple of jacks to get the engine pushed back forward enough to re-mount it, but the bracket in question that was sheared, is an OE only part which isn't typically in stock. Solution? A primered piece of drilled 2"x2" square tube, which operates as the bracket AND MML for the passenger side. I still used a JKS 1" MML on the driver side, with the only 'issue' being that the passenger side is ~1/8" higher than the driver side. But, I can live with that. :o
The OEM replacement is MUCH stronger then the old one. Those stock ones seems to break fairly easily. You can see picts of the OEM replacement in the DIY under JKS/Currie MML. I like my JKS spacers.
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I have JKS MML and BL and love them both, I highly recommend JKS.