Got in contact with the shop. They said it seems like the alignment guy XXXXXXX up. I noticed that it seems like on of the coils is hitting the bump stop at an angle and the strut assembly is leaning towards the top slightly. Shop said the alignment guy would realign it no charge. I'd that doesn't fix it they said they'd do whatever they had to do to make it right because they stand behind their work. Center of hub to bottom of arch is 19 3/4 in the rear and 20 1/4 in the front.
Coils hitting bumpstop should not be physically possible unless something is VERY broken. Bumpstop should only ever contact the top outer portion of the upper control arm.
19.75" rear is not even an inch above stock, when new. 20.25" front is bad too.. with a 2.5" daystar spacer, you would be sitting at 21.5" on all four corners if your springs were in good shape. They are not.
Regardless if you had shocks replaced 5 years ago (springs too, or just shocks?), you have tired, old, worn out parts and all of this is contributing to your issues.
That doesn't seem to be the problem though tom. I can fit a finger in the spaces between my spring coils
While parked, sure you can. Driving down the road, do not forget that the spring compresses and rebounds according to the road surface.. a half inch of coil spacing to stick a finger through seems fine in the parking lot, but that half inch get's taken up quickly on road, and then the coils hit each other (stack) and makes for all sorts of hell.
I'm not saying you dont know what you're talking about. im just telling you what I've observed. just got off the phone with the alignment guy and hes saying theres no way it's an alignment issue. Which I figured. They're trying to play the blame game and I just want to get this sorted out.
Sounds like you're stuck. Look, I get the budgetary constraints thing.. OK, fine.. if you're going to insist on the spacer lift, please resolve to the fact that you had a spacer lift installed on worn out parts that are now under a lot more stress and have less room to move.
You need to replace shocks and springs- even stock, OE spec ones will be better than what you have now and if the control arms and balljoints are OK, should help or fix the issue.
Of course, OE spec parts now.. even though new... will again, only last you about 3-5 years (just like the recently replaced shocks you are riding on now). And then you'll be doing it all over again. This is why it's more advantageous to get the better quality stuff now, pay 2-3x as much.. but only need to do it once every 100k miles.
It took me 4 years of saving and finding the right opportunities to get a good spring lift installed on my KJ... sometimes going cheap with a spacer lift, just costs you more over the long run. You can't afford to do it wrong two or three times.
