Debating on which lift.

tallguy26

Caught the Bug
I have a 2023 gladiator and have been looking at lifts. I’ve narrowed it down to 3. Eco enforcer 2.5 overland stage 1, AEV 2.5 lift, or the AEV 2” puck lift. Gladiator won’t be doing any extreme trails or rocks, I got a wrangler for that. Just looking for opinions on what would be the best lift.
 
Being that you have a Rubicon, you can pretty much run 35's without any lift. And, since you're not planning on doing any hard wheeling with your truck, that's the way I would go as you can do it without any other cost and or work. That said, IF you're still determined to do a lift anyway, I would just do a spacer lift and really, there are a lot more affordable spacers you can buy than AEV.

As far as track bars and geo brackets go, I would never pretend to know more than what you can read on the internet but in my humble opinion, neither are needed with just a spacer lift. Assuming you do a 2" lift, there will be a slight shift in the position of your axles at ride height but then, there's always a shift in your axles depending on how much weight you have or don't have in your Jeep. A rear track bar relocation bracket will help address this in the rear and an adjustable will help you to recenter things up front but again, they aren't actually needed. Geometry correction brackets can help ride quality but again, with just a spacer lift, I personally don't think there's enough change to warrant them. If anything, I would recommend you NOT buy them and only install a set in the future IF you feel the need for them.
 
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What Eddie said!

My Lovely Wife has 35’s on her Gladiator with no lift. I did replace the front springs with a set of Clayton Off-Road springs in order to firm up the ride. The Clayton springs lifted the front about 1/2-inch and greatly improved the ride and handling. It also greatly eliminated bottoming out. I took it to Moab a couple years ago and it did all I asked of it.
 
My daughter has a 2.5" spacer lift on her JL . She complained about the wind effecting it on the Garden state parkway ( 65-75 mph road ) . I seen how much the Ranch Geo brackets effected my JT compared to just longer lower control arms . I installed a set on her JL and swapped the Mopar extended control arms back to the OE arms and she said its like a different Jeep now . Don't sell the Geo Brackets short , I would do them before adj control arms on a short spacer lift . More money but their is more to them than just caster
 
Thank you for the replies. My gladiator is a Willy's package so I'll probably do the puck lift and do what Eddie said and get the other parts later. View attachment 413954
You *may* run into some rubbing issues with the factory flares/fenders. I upgraded my Willys to the Rubicon flares and it free'd up all kinds of room. (To run 35's that is)
 
You *may* run into some rubbing issues with the factory flares/fenders. I upgraded my Willys to the Rubicon flares and it free'd up all kinds of room. (To run 35's that is)
With spacers installed, I personally think he'd be fine or at least, from what I have seen.
 
You are probably right - I did both because I felt like the tires were sitting inboard a lot and looked odd.
Just to clarify, when I said "spacers", I meant that in terms of "coil spacers" being that the OP stated he was going to install a "puck lift". In a lot of ways, adding "wheel spacers" will push your tires out enough that they will no longer tuck up under the fenders at a full flex and the tread will rub the edge of them. Of course, I believe the OP stated he wasn't going to be doing any wheeling of that nature.
 
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