NorthStar Racing, I have an 02 Limited with a 2 1/2 inch lift big tires with serious tread and 1 inch wheel spacers. I replaced the limited slips with lunchbox lockers front and rear. I use it for the beach for fishing and cruising around in the sand pits of South Jersey. Has yet to get stuck. I’m not rock climbing or muddying so it is perfect for me.
Heck it only makes sense to do it with a Libby. They have to be one of the best deals in used cars going cheap, readily available and besides I can say with assurance they are good rigs overall I've owned one I ordered for the wife new and took delivery of in Oct 01. 17 years and the only real issue is two of the window rollers that hold the glass to lift it up or down gave out and had to be replaced. It sucks some gas but that is somewhat illusion because the tank is so small. A bigger tank would have made it more tolerable I believe. I've never kept anything 17 years and worked in dentistry all my life. The wife too. We could buy any damn thing we wanted and did. Lincoln Navigators x 2 in and out, a Suburban, a Escalade, a FourRunner and and a Ford King Ranch pick up all came and went in the time we've had the Jeep. 17 years the Jeep Liberty KJ pre-lowered is still quiet going down the road. Everything including the leather seats looks new. It's not something I'd call cheap at all. We also owned a Cherokee in 92 way back. The KJ is much nicer personally and the braking much better. You find nice Liberty Limited and Renegade packages all over now for very little investment. Compare that to another Jeep model. Besides that it's quite delightful really to pull up on a trail in AR or OK where we live and come across another Jeep model stuck and pull it out with our 'not a real Jeep' Liberty! I rather enjoy that because most people get stuck because they are just crappy drivers. I've had LandCruiser FJ 40s when we lived in AZ on the reservation there doing dentistry on the Indians and a FJ62 in the 80s and honestly the Liberty we own now has revisited all those old haunts and handled them just as well so why anyone would have a problem with it is beyond me. I would like a solid axle but then the Libby is the wife's primary driver. My Jeep has a solid axle front and rear! 17 year going on 18 year Liberty owner and we'd buy another one. In fact I hope to own one of those little CRD's one day.
I had an '06, if you have to have a KJ, these Renegades are the ones to get! I had a blast with it upstate NY. Installed 31" Duratracs and it handled a foot of snow with no problem. Of course, I aired down. 🌨❄🌬 Would choose one of these KJ Renegades over any 4 dr limo Turdler. At least the KJ was meant to be a 4 dr. Btw, I always give the Jeep wave to these KJ Renegades! They are definitely cool.
So you guys kept engine and transmission, what about the stock tourqe converter? I've often heard that the stock TC is the weak link in that drive train.
Like seeing stuff out of the norm being modded. I was impressed by a KJ while spending time in AZ a few winters ago. Small lift and it must have had lockers of some sort because it went places I would never believe a Liberty to go. Michigan plate, was that built in Warren, place on 9 mile?
My wife just bought me one cuz I was talking about a four-wheel drive project and she said well it's a Jeep and it's 4-wheel drive so I got it for you I've been playing hell trying to figure out how to do anything with it
Just picked up a blue crd and plan on doing some mods on it but nothing like this. I plan on making mine the everyday driver/wheelin/small rock climber. So far good looking bumpers and roof rack are hard to find. Any suggestions?
@@bdssuspension Too bad you don't sell some portion of this as a kit. Plates/brackets, long arms and trusses w/arm attachment brackets. Kinda of a solid start for a do it yourselfer.
I have been wondering this for awhile it's not so mutch related to the jeep for say but how do you guys get away with having your tires stick as far as they do when your on the road how dont you guys get pulled over all the time
The million dollar question is: how did you manage the ABS with the new tone rings of the front axle so that the vehicle retains functional ABS and ESP. this is by far the least talked problem on all projects involving the Liberty
Easy, get an 05. you get all the refinements to the engine and the new interior and exterior but none of the abs crap on the sports and renegades (i think). my sport's pretty bare bones
I've always thought the kj was a total girly jeep. It just looks girly and like a toy, can't think of a better way to describe it. This thing was supposed to be a replacement for the xj? Everyone would have been mucg happier having the xj Cherokee updated for the 2002 model year with more modern interior and exterior styling (that didn't look sissy af like the liberty). Yea the 4.0 i6 engine was an old design and there wasn't much more they could do to it but I didn't hear anyone saying they wanted a new engine. They just needed to fix what they screwed up with it after 2000. This jeep is dumb, that's just my opinion.
