Good afternoon,
We have recently acquired a 1974 Jeep Cherokee and are looking to making it a fun offroad/onroad vehicle. However, as we've found in this forums 74 and 75 rear springs are a pain in the butt to find. There have been a lot of points to vendors who will custom make rear springs that will work. However, that is currently not in our budget as the rear springs cost as much as an entire lift kit with new springs. What we'd like to do is convert the spring mounts and locations to line up with the 1976 and later Jeep Cherokees.
Would anyone be able to post some pictures of how the rear springs mount on the 76-81 Cherokees? We are looking for the front mount visual, rear mount visual, and distance from center bolt to center bolt front to rear would be amazing.
This will be an ongoing project, and have found this network to be amazing with support and information. Thank you in advance to anyone who can help us out. The lift we want to install is the rough country 3IN JEEP SUSPENSION LIFT SYSTEM SKU: 64530. The one that fits 74-75 does not have rear springs, and we'd rather not us the 40 year old springs with lift blocks.