H3 Need Your Guy's Opinion On Some Coming Mods "Für Meine Panzer"

[Panzer07]

No thread so far for sleeping princess, but it's a ways out.


Mike

alright hopefully there's a thread soon so I know the date. Lets wake up that princess.

 

[Schwarttzy]

If your going to do the Rancho, there's no reason for the high clearance leaf spring mounts, I recommend the spring over like bebe. I think fox shock are better quality, but the bilsteins are great too and with the extra travel they seem well worth it.

Protection is the highest priority, in my opinion. If you don't have sliders, I recommend them first. I believe the UCP's I sell are wider, but really sets them apart is that because they are completely smooth I can slide right over things with ease. I was in some nasty ruts combined with nasty mud, this is generally weakness off-road, and the skids amazed me that I could just keep sliding over things and not get caught up on something. In the rock they did just as good to, but I expected that.

If you do the OEM UCPS with reinforcements you be golden.

Currently the price for the rock sliders, is $590.00, so the price is $285.00 each. I do this because I need to be able to calculate shipping properly.

 

[Panzer07]

Thank You Everyone For Your Feed Back, And Well After Too Much Thinking About It, And Almost Loosing My Mind I Have Decided To Sacrifice Protection ANd Better Traction (Tires) And Go With The Lift Route, Mainly Because It Is The Second Most Expensive Mod After The Super-Charger Mod I'll Be Making On My 3, And My Near Future Is Uncertain When It Comes To Finances, And I'm Sure I Will Not Be Having $ 3,500 Free To Be Spent On Mods Again Any Time Soon. Anyways Now The Debate Is Between The Rancho Lift, Or A Bebe's Like Lift Conversion, However I Don't Know If I'll Have Enough To Make That Happen.

 

[4speedfunk]

The Rancho kit is awesome. As much as I think its over-priced...and aftermarket wheels are required...its still a fantastic upgrade.

I'm with Squeeky on the rear...dump the Rancho springs and use the GM springs with a SOA.

For shocks, you might as well use the Ranchos since they come with the kit. However, do yourself a favor and ignore the little adjustment knobs. Otherwise...you'll play with them long enough that you'll convince yourself they actually do something.

For skids...you'll probably have to make something custom to fit the Rancho. Frankly...the Rancho puts the center height up so high that you'll rarely drag bottom. But it only takes once!

Not to poo-poo anybody but, if you have a wad of cash...here's where I'de spend it (in order)...

1. Tires tires tires!
2. Steering rack bushing kit.
3. Front axle mount bushings (all three).
4. Rock rails.
5. Skids.
6. Bumpers.
7. CB radio

Supercharger?... Never.

 

[Panzer07]

The Rancho kit is awesome. As much as I think its over-priced...and aftermarket wheels are required...its still a fantastic upgrade.

I'm with Squeeky on the rear...dump the Rancho springs and use the GM springs with a SOA.

For shocks, you might as well use the Ranchos since they come with the kit. However, do yourself a favor and ignore the little adjustment knobs. Otherwise...you'll play with them long enough that you'll convince yourself they actually do something.

For skids...you'll probably have to make something custom to fit the Rancho. Frankly...the Rancho puts the center height up so high that you'll rarely drag bottom. But it only takes once!

Not to poo-poo anybody but, if you have a wad of cash...here's where I'de spend it (in order)...

1. Tires tires tires!
2. Steering rack bushing kit.
3. Front axle mount bushings (all three).
4. Rock rails.
5. Skids.
6. Bumpers.
7. CB radio

Supercharger?... Never.

I Agree With You On That, I'm Not An Expert On Lift Kit Or What Not For That Matter, But Compare To Other Rig's Lift Kits, Rancho kit For The 3 Is Almost Twice As Much Than For The Other Rig's kit, But It Seems Like Everything In The Market For 3 Is Always More Expensive. And I Appreciate Your Feed Back As Well The List You Put Together, However I'm Going With The Lift Kit As Next Mod To Come, and A Month Or 2 After The Lift I Will Go Ahead And Get Some Protection Since Those Are Relatively Cheap Mods, I Still Need To Install The Hunner Steering Rack Sleeve I got And an Additional mount for extra strength, which Such Sleeve I haven't install since I think I should do that too while installing the lift kit (why work twice). and Since My Tires Still At Like 50-45% Of Thread On Them And They Are 33' AT's I'm Going keep them For Right Now, I Will use the 1.75 spacers Chris Mentioned, And Postpone that tires upgrade for when I need new tires Which Should Be In A Couple OF Months Since My 3 Is Not Driven too much. as well I'm Not Doing No Crazy wheeling Just Yet, Mainly Because I Lack The Experience As Well The Protection and i'm still beefing Panzer up for out-of-control-wheeling (unless I'm with the h4o crew Then I Make The Exception Since They Are Good Spotter And They All know Their Sh*t). Now The Rancho Kits I Been Looking And Price Comparing From different website, they do not come with shocks, and I don't wanna use rancho shock, my attention is aim for some bilstein 5160 for the front and 5100 for the back, or get the remote reservoir fox racing shocks, which are pretty F*cking Expensive and haven't read reviews about them, However Since I'm Installing The Kit Myself I Will Saving That Extra Bucks And Using Them For Shocks. At The Same Time I Plan On Doing The SOA As Well, I Read Bebe's & Chris's Threads On This Conversion And Have A Raw Idea Of What To Get And What To Do, "Let's See If I Don't End Up Killing Myself For Learning On How To Do Certain Things While Mod'ing And Upgrading My Rig". But I Feel Confident Giving A Shot And Doing This Mods Myself, And I'm Sure If I Get Stuck Or Not Understand Something Pretty Well I Can Count With You Guys, For Guidance.