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Originally Posted by Supercharger1
black_knight, glad to see you enjoyed the 4-wheeling adventure. A 3" SL (suspension lift) will definitely help your wheel travel and ride in typical off-road situations. Although, a suspension will change the trucks center gravity geometry and the steering/handling. On another note, once installing a suspension lift to your truck you are going to create added stress on the CV joints due to the increased angles, stock TREs and adjuster rods, factory torsion bars and mostly on the factory (weak) steering conponents as well. I highly recommend that you start budgeting now for either a Calmini, L&P or SLR type aftermarket steering system, you will need one. Your factory OEM steering system will wear out fairly fast after installing a new SL and wheel alignments will eventually become nearly impossible, plus the OEM steering components will fail even faster if you drive off-road. My factory steering (Idler Arm First) wore out in only nine months with running just 31" (31.8/10.50/17) BFG ATs after installing an AC (Automotive Customizers) deluex 3" SL system.
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I can't stress how quickly the stock steering will wear out with bigger wheels and any sort of a lift, even driving on the street.
I recomend Calmini because its the only system that addresses bumpsteer whch is a severe geometricaly induced handling problem. The other companies parts are much stronger adressing the wear but the the geometry is the same as stock and the bump steer is the same. Calmini's parts are the biggest and most beefy to boot. You can see them here:
http://www.nissanperformancemag.com/march05/pathfinder/
The Calmini system also quickens the steering ratio and has more ackerman in the geometry as well. It make the steering feel like rack and pinion.