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Jeep Liberty Lift Kit, 3″

For the Jeep Liberty Lift Kit, 3″, the Rockfather suspension is result of over 2 decades of design and testing and partnership with the team at Mopar Underground…. the ultimate suspension. With our new complete strut re-design, there is no finer suspension for the Jeep Liberty available on the market today.

Micro-Alloyed Steel Springs: Manufactured from state-of-the-art micro-alloyed spring steel for maximum strength and long-lasting durability.
Double Scragging: Each spring is double scragged (compressed past its yield point) before and after shot peening to reduce internal stress and prevent sagging over time.
Precision Mandrels: Formed on computer-controlled, precision mandrels to ensure manufacturing consistency and accurate load handling.
Exact Fitment: Designed with specific end configurations to guarantee a direct, precise fit matching original equipment specifications.
Durable Coating: Finished in a hard-wearing powder coat that resists corrosion from mud, road salt, and harsh weather.
Strut Options feature nitrogen gas-charged twin-tube designs calibrated to restore and improve on and offroad handling and control.
Triple-chrome-plated Strut piston rod provides an ultra-smooth surface that reduces seal wear and prevents fluid leaks.
Seamless working Shock/Strut cylinders and Teflon-coated piston bands extend product life and maintain an ideal piston stroke.
Multi-stage precision Shock/Strut hydraulic valves reduce fluid aeration and react quickly to changing road surfaces.
Thick strut bodies and brackets on Shocks/Struts minimize flex to help maintain proper wheel alignment and vehicle control.

Only Liberty Lift Certified for use by Mopar

You may note we don’t carry some of the more ‘familiar’ brands of lifts for your Jeep. The exact reason for this is that as actual Jeep Liberty drivers, we have tried those lifts on our Jeeps and determined they just ride too rough for the level of comfort we expect and demand. We will not sell anything we wouldn’t run on our own Jeeps, so you won’t see those more ‘name-brand’ systems here. With Rocky Road, you are buying from legitimate Jeep Liberty experts. We actually engineered superior lift systems for our own Libertys, and you get to reap the rewards of those efforts as well.

Our components of choice really are the best quality parts, though not as widely distributed. Rocky Road is proud to use Old Man Emu springs and designs in this combination suspension system. We invite you to take some additional time investigating the engineering behind these awesome Australian engineered and manufactured components.

Also available are the GR2 Heavy Duty front struts kits. These kits provide an excellent lower cost alternative to the OME/Ironman struts. We’ve used GR2 struts for years and they have always been well received by our customer base. For the rear shocks, we have an optional Long Travel Monotube shock system. These are are aluminum body (cannot rust), monotube design runs much cooler, Nitro charged, hand built specific to the Liberty, and rebuildable.

Jeep Liberty 3″ lift, KJ Rockfather

As with all properly engineered Liberty suspension lifts, the Rocky Road Rockfather kits do not go over 3″ in height to keep the front axle CV joints from binding. What you are getting is a full suspension that drives and handles like a dream. We have engineered the system to be able to mount on a vehicle with stock bumper, or to properly handle a winch bumper for those who have tried staying with stock springs only to lose some lift. Our system is available with spring rates designed to custom fit your needs including Jeeps with the heavy CRD diesel engine.

The main highlight of our Rockfather systems is a combined front system of the Australian spring design (OME, Dobinson, Ironman), the Under-the-Top external strut spacer incorporated with a strut drop mount. By combining the two, we have taken one step beyond any other company in being able to eliminate any ball joint binding, bottoming out, or strut stress that can occur. It is a combination of the best of all worlds for the ultimate IFS strut system with no reduction in underside clearance. There is no other suspension system on the planet that will ride this smooth or flex as well.

For Liberty CRD owners, our Rockfather kits are one of the only systems on the planet to provide the Heavy Duty front springs you need to support your heavy diesel engine with the external strut spacer and drop system. No other spring manufacturer in the market offers this variety of spring rates to accommodate your heavy duty needs…. Rocky Road does.

Best Liberty Lift Engineering and Features

Rockfather II kits are offered with an optional complete assembled front strut system for those who wish an easy do-it-yourself installation. Or, you can just pick up the standard Rockfather I and II kits and have your installer do the strut work. Yes… you read that correctly, the Rockfather II system is now available with fully assembled struts!!!

Being THE AUTHORITY on Liberty suspensions, our kits are in demand all over the planet. We have shipped them everywhere from Russia to New Zealand, Peru to Fiji, and everywhere in between. Simply stated, there is no finer suspension system in the world for your Jeep than the Rocky Road Rockfather suspensions.

Below you will find lists of the content of all of our Rockfather suspension systems. Don’t just take our word for it. Mopar Underground… the Mopar team that builds those awesome concept vehicle you see at SEMA, in the magazines, and at auto shows and events around the country have chosen Rocky Road lift kits 3 times for their project Jeeps. Mopar can choose any lift system, they have come to Rocky Road since there is no better suspension. That’s just a fact. If you have any confusion or questions on these systems, their components, or anything else to do with the Liberty, we invite you to email us direct or use our online chat system when it is active. We really are Liberty enthusiasts and we really do know these vehicles.

Liberty Rockfather Lift Kits come in three configurations….

Under-the-Top Strut cap system. Replaces your factory strut with our revolutionary new strut cap.
Under-the-Top mounted properly on top of the Liberty strut system.
The complete assembled Rockfather II strut system… OME springs, struts, new strut caps and spring seats.

Rockfather I contains:

New Australian spring design (OME or Ironman)
Under-the-Top strut cap and spacers for 3″ leveling lift in front
Lifetime Guarantee Rear coil spacer
Rocky Road engineered shocks

This suspension gets you the superior front end system and cuts costs on the rear by using poly coil spacers in back. You stay with the stock front struts to help reduce cost as well. Our revolutionary Under-the-Top means no additional stress or other complication keeping the stock strut shock. This is an excellent system for those on a tight budget that want the famous Rockfather ride quality and handling.

Rockfather II contains:

New Australian spring design (OME or Ironman) springs
Under-the-Top strut cap and spacers for 3″ leveling lift in front
Rocky Road custom valved struts to match spring rate and Jeep weight
Custom full height rear springs. Full height! Not lower springs with a spacer included
Rocky Road engineered rear shocks
Optional pre-assembly of the front struts

Bottom line, there is no other suspension company’s lift that will ride better, handle better on and offroad. The safety and ride quality in this suspension is unparalleled. Available unassembled, or with a full assembled front strut system. Anything else you may consider purchasing is simply 2nd place or worse in ride quality and handling.

ROCKFATHER DELUXE contains:

New Australian spring design (OME or Ironman) springs
Under-the-Top strut cap and spacers for 3″ leveling lift in front
Rocky Road custom valved struts to match spring rate and Jeep weight
Offroad Grade Strut systems
Custom full height rear springs
Rocky Road engineered rear shocks
Optional pre-assembly of the front struts
Rocky Road upper A-arm control arms – The original Liberty control arm made from DOM tubing (check out the seamed tubing on the competition…weaker and thinner) included.
Control arm bumpstop extensions

In a nutshell, this is the ultimate top of the line suspension for any Liberty. It contains everything in the Rockfather II system but also our new upper control arms as well. If you are searching for the very best of the best for your Jeep, look no further. The best and most complete system on planet Earth.

Jeep Liberty 3″ Lift Kit Comparison

Now for a word on comparison of suspension kits for the Liberty. There are 2 basic ways of lifting the Liberty. There are lifts that gain height from the use of springs, and those that lift from spacers used inside and outside of the strut assembly. Within those groups, there are then a couple sub-categories. We don’t want to bash on the competition, but it is fair to share our years of engineering and testing with those shopping for lifts….

The first type of lift to touch on is any Liberty suspension lift that includes any type of internal strut spacer creates lift by crushing the front springs so that there is no uptravel (compression) left. For example… In the picture above showing our fully assembled strut, you can see our spacer on the outside on top. Now just imagine that same spacer on the inside of the strut assembly with the spring. The strut can’t change length, it is always the same. So the spring is going to be squished more inside of that strut assembly.

For further illustration, imagine your Jeep on a lift with the tires off the ground. They will hang down. Now normally when you set the Jeep back on the ground the suspension compresses. This is how the suspension should act. With an internal strut spacer, the suspension is already compressed. The lower the Jeep onto the tire and they won’t go up, they will stay in place rigid. This is because the springs are already crushed nearly to their maximum compression.

The Very Best Liberty Lift on the Market

What does this mean for you? It means very stiff handling, a bouncy stiff ride quality, an unstable feeling at highway speeds. There are lifts that will take quality spring design of Old Man Emu and combine them with these internal strut spacers, but the end result is still the same. The springs are still crushed by the internal spacers, the ride quality is diminished from its ideal comfort level, handling suffers since the springs cannot cycle as engineered, and the warranty of those is 100% null & void since they are NOT being used in the way they were engineered.

The second style of lift uses external strut spacers. These kits exist for the sole reason of saving money. If someone wants a lift on their Jeep in the least expensive fashion, these kits do the job and we do manufacture an excellent Budget Lift system. These kits do not diminish the ride comfort such as with internal spacer strut lifts, but they don’t improve the vehicle stability, comfort, and handling like the Rockfather suspensions.

Third, you have suspensions that use lifted springs. These include some of the more well-known manufacturers out there. Often, the local 4×4 shop knows little to nothing about the Liberty, but they sell these lifts readily. What we can say about these suspensions is that we receive orders regularly from many customers who already own these other big name lift kits and just can’t take the harsh ride quality anymore. The only system engineered with the proper formula for excellent riding lifted springs, and that is Old Man Emu/Ironman. Anything else, you might just end up coming back to us anyway and spending several hundred more $$$ to correct the rough riding issues.

Best 3″ Liberty Lift

Finally, you have a system like the Rockfather which uses the best quality springs, and an EXTERNAL strut spacer. Bottom line, this is the best suspension configuration available. The best of all worlds with no drawbacks at all.