solid axle triton

that sounds like good advice although i was planning on lockers aswell. My perception of the solid front is that it is alot stronger than the ifs which was a drawcard too.

There is hardcore 4x4ing and then there is very hardcore. I have a navara dual cab so I am never going to be in the very hard core category. For that you should probably be driving a swb patrol or something and then spend 20k on getting it capable. If you drive a dual cab though it's never going to be in that category and I would really think that a solid front would only be marginaly better. After a lift, tyres, lockers, I think the front end may only be 15% better and would cost heaps, plus engineering it right will take ages and you may never be totaly happy, it could be a case where refinement takes a long time and lots of money. Then insurance on top of that, I cant imagine them going easy on you when you have altered the vehicle effecting braking and handling. Mate it all sounds to hard for me. In fact I am at the stage that I am thinking I buy a 2wd ute for work and another 4x4 just for wheeling. Doing both in 1 car does not make sense cause you always are saying "if i break my car today, i cant go to work monday"

You could ask the questions over at www.outerlimits4x4.com. They have a Mitsubishi section that will have some more details.

Also a writeup a couple of months ago in one of the mags of a Pajero that had the full SAS done by Mark Cheeseman of Cheezy Racing. The owner is in a 4WD club I'm in, and by all measures it has improved the abilities of the vehicle no end in the rough stuff, but with the usual tradeoffs for beam front ends on road.