Pretty good idea. I like that you only get slightly less travel than fully disconnected. Seems like they would work great for all but the most extreme trails. Same question though, would you have to swap springs out every time you went form the road to a trail? Seems like it might get old. I guess it depends a lot on what price point these come in at.
I don't understand why you'd want these? Seems like a lot of wasted money to not gain anything.......
The crew at Trail Jeeps are currently testing these.
I don't understand why you'd want these? Seems like a lot of wasted money to not gain anything.......
Laziness I didn't get a rubicon and don't like manually disconnecting haha but yea they are way too out of my budget the basic kit is $300 to upgrade to the crawl springs is a separate kit on top of that
The fact that you have to disconnect the sway bar, swap springs, then reinstall it just to wheel seems like a lot more work than just removing the original jks quick discos don't you think?
The fact that you have to disconnect the sway bar, swap springs, then reinstall it just to wheel seems like a lot more work than just removing the original jks quick discos don't you think?
Since I was part of a useless buy yesterday I'm sure people will think the same when I got these. I can tell you, I don't need anything for my jeep so when you are sitting there thinking of what next to buy, little things like these pop into my rig. Anyway...
Their standard ones with a 3.5 lift or more don't work. You come close to inverting. So close I had to take them off. JKS actually made me long travel ones and now they are the same 12" instead of their standard 9.5" ones. I use the 75% crawl spring and can't see myself going to the 50% or 25% ones. When you are driving on the street they act as a Currie or ORO act but not as much sway.
When cruising down dirt roads or in between trails is when you can feel what they are doing. It just feels smoother but not by some extreme "wow" factor. I've done semi hard trails with them connected like John Bull and all of those in Big Bear. I don't leave them connected on Hammer trails.
When on the fork lift and disconnected I'm at 37.5". When connected I'm at 35".
Are these for a Rubicon, I don't think so. Are they for anything else? I think they do pretty good. Are they worth the price? No, they need to be in the high 100 price tag.
Thank you for a good honest review :thumb: I thought the 300 or so made sense, till I saw it was only one of the special links.
Since I was part of a useless buy yesterday I'm sure people will think the same when I got these. I can tell you, I don't need anything for my jeep so when you are sitting there thinking of what next to buy, little things like these pop into my rig. Anyway...
Their standard ones with a 3.5 lift or more don't work. You come close to inverting. So close I had to take them off. JKS actually made me long travel ones and now they are the same 12" instead of their standard 9.5" ones. I use the 75% crawl spring and can't see myself going to the 50% or 25% ones. When you are driving on the street they act as a Currie or ORO act but not as much sway.
When cruising down dirt roads or in between trails is when you can feel what they are doing. It just feels smoother but not by some extreme "wow" factor. I've done semi hard trails with them connected like John Bull and all of those in Big Bear. I don't leave them connected on Hammer trails.
When on the fork lift and disconnected I'm at 37.5". When connected I'm at 35".
Are these for a Rubicon, I don't think so. Are they for anything else? I think they do pretty good. Are they worth the price? No, they need to be in the high 100 price tag.
Based off the video yes you need to swap springs from road to trail and vise versa