No worries about hijacking. The Sporty was lifted when I bought it. The seller had a set of 3" body blocks fabricated at a machine shop. For reasons not quite clear to me, he opted to get a 3.5" suspension lift from Everet, then lift the body 3". The suspension lift is perfect. The body blocks seem fine. But I don't know if they have recesses to keep them in place. I haven't noticed any signs of shifting. But some of the rubber pads seem to be a bit off-center. That noted, I haven't noticed any issues with the vehicle's handling that would be associated with the lift job. The only issue I have is that the body lift really threw off the geometry of the transfer case's shift lever. Now the lever has to slide under the lower-right corner of the tranny shifter to engage 4-low. In fact, I couldn't get it into 4L without trimming about 1/2" of threads off the TC lever. Now I need to fabricate a horizontal extension to offset the lever being under the console while in 4L. I almost had it fixed last weekend. But my extension was just a wee-bit too long, which prevents the TC lever from staying in 4H - it keeps popping back up towards 2H. Sooooooo close, yet so far away... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shiner.gif" alt="" />


1997 Sportage 4x4, auto-trans, Warn manual hubs, 4" UPYOURKIA front lift, TJ 106AA rear springs, 2-5/8" body lift, 31x10.50 treads, SmittyBilt SRC front and XRC rear bumper, swing-out tire mount, OBX LSD front diff, Track Finder rear locker, 5.38 R&Ps and... really crappy gas mileage! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shiner.gif" alt="" />