[n3tfury]

I met someone this weekend who was running a 3.5" rubicon express standard coil lift with their stock driveshaft. Now I know under full droop it will rub against the exhaust but this guy said he had no issues. Anyone else here run their stock ds on a 3"+ lift? Any idea how long before you will need to replace it?

I am currently running a 2" spacer lift on 33's with a magnaflow exhaust but want to move onto a 3.5" rubicon express lift being that it comes with an adjustible track bar and I like the height. (Looking to upgrade to 35's in the future and rather get the height I want now)

I travel about 5 miles a day for work and occasionally wheel on the weekends. Just looking for a second opinion!

Then he's not flexing anywhere near its potential and/or the RE kit isn't a true 3.5 kit after armor. I have a Metalcloak 3.5 and I already tore my boot with mild flexing, even with exhaust spacers. I knew I'd need to replace the DS at some point, so not really a big deal.

I would go up to a 2.5 lift and will not have to worry at all about drive shaft issues as well as steering.
The t/f 2.5 coil lift is a great kit and more then enough room for 35's

I am running a 3.5 lift now and going to be switching to the 2.5 t/f very soon.

What.

 

[n3tfury]

You have to take a lot of what is constantly regurgitated on this forum by people with no real experience with a grain of salt.
You constantly read on here you need axle gussets and sleeves, 5.38 gears and an exhaust spacer or different driveshaft to run a 3.5" lift and 35" tires. 99% of the time none of that is needed, go check out AEVs forums, they build JKs day and day out that sold through and warrantied by Jeep dealers and do none of that with their 3.5" lift.

Lol

 

[n3tfury]

Your factory driveshaft will generally give you under 100k miles (of course this being the internet I will say there are always exceptions, so calm down if you have a JK with 125k miles and a factory driveshaft still going strong: I acknowledge you exist so sit down it will be ok.)

Lol