This is my review and installation of the Rough Country two-and-a-half-inch Series II
lift kit with shocks fitting your 2007 and up JK.
Because this is a lift kit that includes coil spring spacers and not coil springs, this
will work with both your two-door and your four-door JK.
Today we're gonna talk through the installation of this lift kit, which I am going to give
a two out of three wrenches.
It's going to be fairly easy to install, but there are quite a few components and a good
bit of disassembly to do in order to get this installed on your Jeep.
And it's probably going to take you around three hours or more to do in your driveway.
But we'll talk more about that installation in just a second.
This lift kit is gonna be for those of you that are looking to get two and a half inches
of lift on your Jeep, be able to run a 33 or 35-inch tire comfortably, but don't wanna
spend the money on a lift kit that includes a lot more components and will also have some
additional functionality.
Now that's not to say that this kit isn't going to work for you.
You can drive your Jeep on the road.
You can drive your Jeep off-road, and this will perform pretty well.
However, a lift kit that includes coil springs is going to have some additional benefits.
Usually, the coil springs included in a lift kit that has them will be a little bit stiffer,
so they can hold up to a Jeep that's got a little bit more weight on it from armor, winches,
other accessories, and things like that.
With this kit, you are going to be running those factory springs with a spacer on top
of them, so you're not going to have a stiffer spring.
Having a coil spring spacer like this will also force your springs into coil bind a little
bit sooner than a longer lift spring would.
Coil bind is when the coils of the coil spring touch together, which can cause some damage
to the coil over time.
Now in order to avoid that, you may have to add some additional bump stop to your Jeep
to keep the coil from binding.
With this kit, because it does include the Rough Country Performance 2.2 shocks, these
shocks have an external bump stop built right into them to keep the shock from fully compressing.
That's gonna keep you from damaging your shock, but it's also going to help keep you out of
coil bind.
Other than that, this kit does include all of the components needed to get your Jeep
back on the road and running again.
But because it is a slightly less expensive kit and because it has the coil spring spacers,
instead of the coil springs, it does leave some room for upgrades down the line.
As far as the construction goes, starting over here, you have a rear track bar bracket.
And that bracket is really designed to get your track bar angles back closer to factory,
get your roll center back closer to factory.
But it's not going to do a whole lot to get your axles centered under your Jeep.
That would be where an adjustable track bar would come into play, and this kit isn't going
to include that.
The kit also doesn't include anything for up front.
You're not going to have a adjustable track bar or a track bar bracket in the front.
So that's one of those areas that you could always upgrade if you choose to down the line.
Here you have a longer set of sway bar and links.
These are non-disconnectable, non-adjustable sway bar and links.
And these are actually designed to go in the back of the jeep allowing you to move the
factory sway bar and link from the rear to the front because from the factory, the back
ones are a little bit longer, and that'll even everything out, giving you the sway bar
and link length that you need for the two and a half inches of lift.
In the center here, you have your coil spring spacers.
And this is going to actually provide that lift.
These go above your factory coil springs, between the coil spring and the coil spring
seat, giving you that additional height.
And over here, you have a set of shocks.
Again, these are the Rough Country Performance 2.2 hydraulic shocks.
Down here on this rubber section on the piston is what I was talking about before.
This has an external bump stop built right into it.
Again, that's going to help keep the shock from getting any damage if you were to fully
compress it and also help keep you out of coil bind as well.
I really do like the fact that this comes with a hydraulic shock.
The benefits of a nitrogen-charged shock or that when you work it really hard off-road
is not going to have any shock fade, and you're not going to have that benefit in this hydraulic
shot.
However, a nitrogen-charged shock will also generally ride a little bit stiffer.
So these hydraulic shocks are going to provide a little bit more of a comfortable ride.
This kit is also going to include all of the hardware that you're going to need to get
it installed as well as some brake line extension brackets, which will keep you from pulling
a brake line taut when you're off-road.
As for the install, I am gonna give this that two out of three wrenches.
A lift kit does have quite a few components.
There's a lot of disassembly to do.
So it's going to be a little bit more of a difficult install.
And you are gonna wanna give yourself around three hours to get this done.
But that's not to say you can't do it in your driveway with just some hand tools.
The first step in any lift kit installation is to jack up the Jeep, support it by the
frame, and then loosen or remove any components that keep you from completely sagging the
axles.
That's going to mean disconnecting your track bars, your shocks, your sway bar and links,
and your brake line brackets to let those axles droop.
Once you have the axles droop down, you'll have plenty of room to put your coil spring
spacers in place.
And then as you're putting things back together, you'll swap out your shocks for the ones included
in the kit, your sway bar and links, again, moving the factory rears to the front and
using the new ones that come in the kit in the back, and finally, install your rear track
bar bracket before re-bolting up your rear track bar.
You're also going to wanna use those brake line extension brackets when you're bolting
the brake line brackets back onto the frame just to give you that a little bit of additional
stretch so you're not going to pull a brake line taut when you're off-road.
Now even though this lift kit doesn't include coil springs, it is most, if not all, of the
same installation steps as a lift kit that does include coil springs.
You're going to be doing pretty much all of the same work.
Now just a little bit of a tip when you are getting your front track bar lined back up
again, it can help to have somebody sit in the Jeep, unlock the steering wheel, turn
the key to the on position, and then turn the steering wheel back and forth.
And that will help to line up the axle underneath the body and make it easier to get that track
bar lined up.
I've tried all kinds of different things, from ratchet straps to having people stand
on the front bumper.
And this is by far the easiest way to get that track bar lined up.
Like I said before, this can be done with some hand tools, a socket set.
If you have power or pneumatic tools, they'll definitely speed the process along.
And before you get started with this install, it would be a good idea to spray all of the
nuts and bolts that you'll be removing with a good penetrating oil to make it that much
easier to do the install.
I've mentioned a couple of times now that this kit is going to be less expensive than
some of the other kits on the market, even some of the Rough Country kits that include
coil springs and not just spacers.
This kit comes in at right around $375.
And to be honest with you, for what you'd get, I do think that's a very fair price.
Are the shocks going to ride pretty comfortably?
Yes.
Are you going to be able to spend more money and get a shock that'll ride even nicer?
Of course.
Would a kit that has coil springs hold up to additional weight better, not going to
coil bind as soon?
Yes.
However, all of that means that this kit still works very, very well, gets you back on the
road, gets you off-road as well, gets you running a larger tire for under $400.
For some of the more complete kits or kits that include a lot of those upgrades right
off the bat, it could be three, four times as much as that.
So I do think that this is gonna be a good deal as an entry level lift kit.
So if you're looking to get bigger tires on your Jeep, you need a two-and-a-half-inch
lift, you like the way that that looks but you don't wanna break the bank and you don't
need or want all of those performance upgrades that you could possibly have in a suspension
system, this is going to be a really good place to start.
So that's my review of the Rough Country two-and-a-half-inch Series II lift kit with shocks fitting your
2007 and up JK that you can find right here at extremeterrain.com.
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