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Rough country lifts any good ?

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Old 07-20-2014, 12:31 AM
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Default Rough country lifts any good ?

Does any one have one and any pics
 
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Old 07-22-2014, 10:35 PM
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Don't have a lot of insight, but will give what little I have. I have a 6" skyjacker on my truck, but we have a 3" RC lift on my mom's Jeep TJ. The previous owner installed it, and its a decent lift. However, a lift for a Jeep and a first gen are very different, so you can't really compare the ride quality between the two. The lift has held up to a few MN and WI winters now, still paint on the shocks, and thats saying something given all the crap they put on the roads here. From what I've heard, RC isnt the best, but they aren't the worst, a middle of the road if you will.
 
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As their name implies - Rough Country springs have the roughest ride of all and poor load handling if you need to carry anything.
 
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If its anything like my 98 dodge, they didnt give me leaf springs with the lift, they gave me blocks to stack on top of my factory blocks, and one person on here said that they would absolutely never stack blocks. Ride handling went from decent to terrible. Its hard to keep the truck straight on the road, the back end sways all over the place. And I had a transmission and transfer case out of my 98 in the bed and it was squatting in the back. IMO, i would never recommend rough country.
 
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I know this is a little old but I have a 4in rough country lift on my w150. I like it alright. The rear lift was a block on top of the stacked block so I would recommend getting one solid block or do lift springs. I used a stock block from a w250 to replace the stacked blocks.
 



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