Hummer H3T

Rims matter with 4x4's. A tire reacts differently on different rims. With maybe a small exception with mud traction. But any off roading or 4 wheeling rims matter. Large diameter rims dont allow the use of side walls and the tire to flex. Plus you cant air down with large diameter rims.
 
For some reason your stupid ass threads make me laugh every time, it's always a surprise with you and I never know what to expect next
 
only con for a SA front end would be road driveability...but lets be serious youre supposed to be driving a truck not a fucking minivan so you shouldnt give two shits about its road manners
 
road manners will be fine as long as its not lifted like 4 feet and its set up ok

my truck drives down the road straight as an arrow, hell, my dads dodge has a nicer ride with a solid axle than any ifs chevy ive ridden in haha
 
Except I have plowed through deeper, wet chunky heavy snow in my impreza than that hummer was in. If you have good tires, any car can get through some decent snow, but that hummer was just pathetic.
 
Congrats, I'm sure you have. Still doesn't take away from the fact that a civic could have jerked that guy out of there. Not to mention the four people already pushing.
 
Go on craigslist and search Toyota axles. You can get a set for around $600, at least around me you can. I just bought one for $300, but it's just the front not a set
 
ifs does handle better, and in general is better at high speed. so depends on what kind of offroading your doing. id much rather have ifs in a desert truck..
 
Also, with ifs you can do a torsion bar lift which you can do extremely cheap. If you go straight axle though, a 6 inch suspension lift only costs around $300 because it's just leaf springs while with the IFS it's upwards of $800 or $900 and it's harder to install, but you could also do the torsion key lift on top of that which would add another 3 inches. I wouldn't go that high though, center of gravity is to high for trails but for mud it may be good, but you may need to re gear as well with over 33 or 35 inch tires to 4.10 gears
 
go find a shop that will do it for you and see how much they want, before parts youre probably looking at at least 800 bucks of labor, definitely more than that.

what they do:

torch off all the ifs garbage and prep frame

build spring hangers

install leafs

bolt up axles

its pretty labor intensive and when you have to pay people to do this stuff it adds up reaaaallll quick.

let alone its not just any steel fab shop youre probably gonna need a 4x4 shop and that just adds to the cost.

if you have some friends with torches and welders and stuff do it with them, we've done a nissan SAS over a long weekend before.

also, if youre serious about it go on pirate4x4 and read up, serious tech om that site
 
true true, i usually don't take that type of off roading into consideration because ive never been able to do it living on the east coast most my life but theres no way you can strap a solid front onto those desert trucks and expect them to be able rip as hard as they do with ifs
 
Pretty impressive, even though the KOTH desert course is relatively mild in the offroad racing world. You can definately see spots where he maxed out is articulation.
 
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its no trophy truck course but its still pretty impressive considering the rock crawling portions of the course, which a trophy truck couldnt even attempt
 
No. That's like saying a jeep wrangler looks exactly like the h3. This truck had the chassy looks of a wrangler with the functionality of the rather long bed. All you can fit in the bed of a shitty h3 is 2 chihuahas and a picnic basket, perhaps some tight letter pant if you try hard enough.
 
i got a 97 wrangler, i dont really mess with the mud, Sierra Nevada have some insanely nice trails( rubicon, fordyce).
 
its a goddamn shame they don't make them like that anymore...
but the rumored 2012-13 pickup is rumored to be getting a diesel (finally), same solid 6 spd, good ground clearance, great break over angles and 34'' muds
of course there is way too much chrome and a way too plush interior but you cant really buy brand new vehicles that are close to what their legendary predecessors are because of all the new safety regulations/cafe standards..but all my friends who have JK model wranglers love them even though they are significantly softer than what use to be built

 
its painfully obvious by your responses in this thread that your either trolling and/or retarded and i probably shouldnt even bother replying but for the sake of discussion i might as well
what comparably sized ford or dodge would you rather take off road? good luck.
 
lol, frame flex ftl

a properly designed full size can do anything any jeep can, the only downside to fullsize is that through very tight trails you cant be too fond of straight sheetmetal.
 
ive got a friend with an f-250, and im amazed at how shitty it is offroad. i went on a trip with him and some other guys, 4 cars total, a land cruiser, montero, and an x3. and the f-250 had to get towed up two different obstacles that every other car, even the x3, (which is basically a minivan trying to be an suv) made it up. it just could not put any power down and just bounced around, he had pretty good tires too.
 
maybe hes a bad driver?

honestly, if its stock it wont be that great off road, lack of droop travel really hurts stock vehicles, given the size of an f 250 some things might be harder for him.

honestly, im blaming this one on user error if those other rigs could make it.
 
i wouldnt put much of it on driver error, basically every time he tried the whole car would hop all over the place.
 
im just using myself as an example here, but my 72 chevy 2500 with balding 33s will go just about anywhere that it will fit, within reason.

the key thing with open diffs, which im sure the f250 in question had is keeping all 4 tires planted where they should be able to get some traction. also, 4 lo is your friend.

 
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