The Truxx leveling kit for H3?

[spillKill]

hey guys just wondering how this leveling kit actually works and if it is worth getting
i have seen the Tbar way and i just feel like its not the best way...
input is greatly appreciated!

http://www.gstyle4u.com/.sc/ms/bdd/...VELING LIFT KIT ^2F 2006-2010 HUMMER H3 & H3T

 

[benlaud87]

You can accomplish the same thing with cranking the torsion bars

 

[davidh3]

IMO, they are over priced.

I'd crank the torsion bars instead just as benlaud87 said.

 

[3Hummers]

The leveling kit works fine. As others have said cranking the t bars accomplishes the same thing.

 

[amrg]

The Stock torsion keys already on the H3 have enough room left to accomplish the same thing those after market keys do. Don't waste your money on those, just tighten two screws and save up your money for better shocks and possibly an add-a-leaf / rear shackle to lift the rear some, or as a payment for new bigger tires.

 

[ArtHummer]

+1 on that. waste of money. All you do is changing stock part on some shiny expensive part that now one will ever see. But both do the same thing

 

[spillKill]

Thanks everyone I guess im just gonna crank the Tbar haha, hopefully in the next day or two and I'll post some pics

 

[Schwarttzy]

Just crank the torsion bars.

 

[spillKill]

But doesn't it put the cv in a bind???

 

[backcountryislife]

But doesn't it put the cv in a bind???

it does the exact same thing that doing a key lift does. It re-clocks the torsion bar to change the at rest position of your suspension within the designed range it came with. If you go too high, yeah, you're driving around with a bigger than ideal angle on the CV's & tie rods. Most on here seem to say that from center of hub to bottom of fender the max is 23.75".

 

[spillKill]

Oh ok so as Lon as I don't go over 23.75 I'm good

 

[backcountryislife]

Oh ok so as Lon as I don't go over 23.75 I'm good

That's what most seem to say.

I was at 14.25 because someone told me that was as high as I should go, and a year later most folks were telling me that was too far, in the meantime I never had any CV issues, but had a lot of steering rack issues.

 

[alrock]

I think many stick to 23.25 or less. I was at 24" for a while and I believe that greatly hastened the wear and tear on my steering rack. Also tore a few CV boots, though I was lucky that no CV ever failed as a result of the tear or the torsion bar cranking.

 

[Burn]

Did mine as soon as I got it (cranked up the T bars) can't stand the amount of rake it had. One thing get it aligned cant over state that, and make sure you mark the nut so you can do them as even as possible.

 

[spillKill]

Wht kind of steering rack problems did u have?

 

[backcountryislife]

There's a can of worms...:giggle:


Here's 27 pages... have fun reading.

http://www.hummer4x4offroad.com/for...-way-to-fix-the-steering-rack-issue-on-the-H3


FYI, I wheeled a LOT, my truck got probably 7 years worth of trail miles while I had it. I live right in the middle of some hard trails that I would hit in the afternoon, weekends... whatever. I wheeled hard stuff, and I wheeled a LOT, so my experience & rate of failure isn't a fair comparison. I didn't beat on it, I didn't hop, lurch, slam my truck... but I was taking the hardest lines I could find, and pushing as best I could. I also feel I had a vehicle with an issue we didn't notice till the last failure when I had already given up & had removed my other mods. I can't prove that, but the way in which it was failing was just odd... atypical.