All articles
Every article here is about a decision you actually have to make on a TJ, and what it costs you elsewhere on the Jeep.
Suspension & steering
- TJ Lift Kits Compared: budget boost vs short arm vs long arm
Three approaches, three sets of consequences. Pick the tire first.
- Death wobble on a TJ: what causes it, in the order to check
It is a symptom, not a part. A stabiliser hides it rather than fixing it.
- What a lift actually breaks
The follow-on list: track bar, caster, bump stops, lines, driveline.
Top & body
- TJ soft top vs hard top
Noise, warmth, security, and the storage problem nobody mentions.
- TJ doors: full steel, half, tube, or none
What each type encloses, and the mirrors that leave with the doors.
- Bumpers and rockers: what the stock ones do not do
No rated recovery point, and unprotected sills. Sliders come first.