The body lift is in the mail and I'm already thinking about doing a suspension lift. Maybe after I battle the body lift my spirit will be down enough that the suspension lift can wait until Spring.

I've spent so much time going through previous posts on body lifts and have found out a lot of great information, the search function on this forum is great compared to some others. Still I have a few questions that I'm hoping you all can help with.
1) With a manual transmission on a 1991 trooper will it be neccessary to weld in an extender? I've read a little bit about this and was wondering if it was true and why?

2) The radiator will either need to be relocated or the fan housing cut so that the radiator will move up with the body, which of these two is better? If the rad is lowered will it hang out the bottom? What about the radiator plumbing?

3) I've read a bit about oil coolers on the 2.8l's. Is this a stock option? Where would I even look to see if there is one? When I picked up my trooper the previous owner had a rebuilt engine installed, it looks to me like there is plumbing for an oil cooler in my engine compartment but the plumbing must not be hooked up because they just end, and are not hooked up to anything. At first I thought it was part of the AC system because the plumbing was aluminium. I'll try to take pictures of this and post them to clarify. Anyway, I'm really just more curious about the location of an oil cooler and what would have to be done to prevent the lines from being damaged during the lift?

4) What about the exhaust? I admitt I haven't looked at it in detail yet but as I'm sitting here thinking of potential snags it seems to me like this might be one. It hangs off the body, so are there just extended hangers to keep it all straight? Or is the body lifted and the exhaust bent? Maybe this is a stupid question but hey, I just don't know.

When I start this project I'll post some pictures and likely have more questions, and found solutions.

Thanks for all your help!

JTW