Hello I recently acquired a 2004 liberty 3.7 v6 with the 16 in wheels. Tire size is 225 75 r 16 I was wondering how big I can go before I have clearance issues as I was looking at mud grapplers or tsl. Thanks in advance
New to the liberty need advice
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CzarKJ
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Welcome! I'm going to direct you to this thread since it was just answered. http://www.jeepkj.com/forum/showthread.php?t=57756
245-70-16s or the size you have basically without a lift
Reason being 99% sure your springs have already sagged and no way to fit larger without a lift
If you'd like to know if you have sagged measure from the very middle of the wheel to bottom of the flare at the left front and let us knw
guess the dimension haha
Really ?? never seen a used one that age and still that height
BUT still 245-70-16s or around 29 inches tall is it
Bigger and will rub when turning
I've had 07s in my garage that were sitting over 1.75 inches lower at 75,000 miles
boboborino
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The story on this gem is I bought it off a family member who used it to get out on mthe lake for ice fishing. Before I purchased it had new brakes,wheel bearings ,springs, battery and 4 winter treads thrown on..... Jeep has sat for 2 years and she's up on miles 216000 but I paid 200 bucks for it.
because thats what it is lol .
boboborino
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Mine were not that bad either. ~100 000km (~62 000 miles) I was surprised because it rode like shit.
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boboborino
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stock ride height is 19"? or so I thought. Correct me if I am wrong. so measuring a "tad under 19" "how do you lose an inch?
Bert
This looks to me to be about 17 inches, what did you get??
tape measure is an inch above the bottom of the flare but shows about 18 so you're almost two inches below new stock height
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boboborino
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OK, ya I wasn't sure WHERE people were measureing to. the posts in the threads I've read I don't think explained exactly where on the flare to measure, they just said from the middle of hub to flare, so in this pic I went straight up and had my tape against the tire on the top so as to not bend my tape measure, and it actually measured 18.5" in the front on both sides. I think there is a lot of discrepencies on where people measure, hence why I posted pics. So after I changed out the components I re-measured and the only spot I got the documented 21"-21.5" was to the top of the flare. I measured differently where I had the end of the tape aligned with the center of the hub and measured upward and got these measurements. This is also why I added 1/4" to my post measurements(as you can see in my pic of the paper plate). So now according to what you are saying my post measurements are only 20" for the front and 20.5" for the rear, that would be to the bottom of the flare.:shrug:
OME 927/948 with OME struts/shocks.
Bert
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boboborino
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Further to the above, you can see I started to measure in the same manner for the driver front where I got 20-3/4" and I thought it was a little low which is why I started to measure differently to achive the documented new height of 21".
Bert
Bert
boboborino
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So I just went out to measure and using a protractor to find the angles and then using trig..........nah I just used a level and the difference between the bottom of the flare and the top is only 1/2"(9/16 to be exact) so where you see my tape measure in the picture is 1/4" off either way you go.
Bert
Bottom of the flare is well , very bottom edge of the flare
With a tape measure I put the dummy end up against the bottom of the flare and measure down to center of the wheel
where you should measure
With a tape measure I put the dummy end up against the bottom of the flare and measure down to center of the wheel
where you should measure
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All depends
If you did it right and have a full spring lift then 245-75-16s with pinch weld pounded over and some minor trimming
If spacer lift , hard to tell would depend on how much the springs have sagged, possibly 245-70-16s would be it
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