I have been looking at relocating my leaf spring mounts under the frame instead of the stock outboard. For one it will give me a bit of lift and second I thought it would allow for more flex. Would stability be sacrificed on and/or off the road?

Looking for anybody whose done it and can lemme know how well it worked. TIA :beer:

BTW ... I have a Full Size '76 Cherokee 2 dr. with SOA and 4" of body lift. I am also going to be getting the Rancho 44044 springs and 37" MTs.

I'm fixin' to do the same thing on the back of my dedicated rock Scout II, so it looks like we're gonna find out! I'm sure somebody else here has input. I don't care about the highway stability so much in my case, but we'll see what happens.

Anybody?

Currently the front springs are 32" from centerpin to centerpin and the frame rails are 34 1/2" from the outside egdes. The rear springs are 43 3/4" from centerpin to centerpin and the rear frame rails are 38" from the outer edges. The leaf springs and frame rails are 2 1/2" wide.

I am also going to be upgrading from Wide Trac axles to the Chevy D60 and 14 bolt rear.

I did this to my lil Cherokee a couple of years ago.

You're right - it will give increased flex and lift.

But i HATED the instability - it was really gross...not my daily driver, but 2-3 times/week

It was too "tippy" offroad in my opinion too. The effect was pretty dramatic for how far I moved them.

Then agin, if you;re building an all-out flex happy rock buggy - why not. But for a road driver or GP rig - I would say not.

stability is sacrificed yeah, my fullsize tips quite nice with the rear springs under the rails, solution is to put in a bigger swaybar in the back with qwick release setups, that way you pin them in for fast stuff and take them out for flex. I would go for it the only downside I had was fitting shocks.