Only about 1.25" lift if I keep 50mm of droop

[greenrover]

Still dialing in my new OME t-bars with Slee diff drop and SPC control arms.

If I make sure I have 50mm of droop I'm only achieving 1.25" of lift in the front.
I can crank them to get 2" of lift but then only have about 38mm of droop.

Is this normal? Am I expecting too much lift in front?

Thanks all.

 

[sdnative]

These were my numbers

Before After
FR 18.75" 20.25"
FL 19" 20.25"
RR 19.25" 21.5"
RL 19.25" 21.5"
Droop 5" 3"

 

[greenrover]

sdnative; looks like you got about 1.5" lift in the front.
Is that 3" of droop for the front?

 

[pasos75fj40]

I have the same lift. Sending it off to alignment tomorrow. I feel the same. Seems like the front is too low, about 2 inches front to back. The alignment guy feels the SPC upper A arm is unnecessary and hard to replace if they fail on the trail. OEM ball joints & A Arms can be had anywhere.

I will see if the guy thinks I can torque the TB an still keep the 50 -70 mm droop.

 

[greenrover]

I went through this same process.
In my observations the front shocks are limiting droop. The OME's are the same length as stock and on full droop don't take full advantage of the SPC control arms. If you had shocks with more travel, theoretically, you could get 2 inches of lift and keep your 50mm or more droop.

 

[RobRed]

There is mountains of this data available on the forum on this topic

@greenrover you are correct that the shocks are the down limiters.

@pasos75fj40 "...hard to replace if they fail on the trail..." Who is replacing these on the trail? They don't fail. Does the alignment guy have a 100 series that he wheels so hard that he breaks arms? hahaha