I wished I went with a 6". I use to have OME mediums and then went with heavies. I am not interested in looks and ideally I want a SAS for better Flex and more belly room for crawling over rocks. The SAS will run you over 10K and a 6" can be had for a fraction of the cost. For the situations I have been into there have been times where I kept telling myself that I should have went for the 6" just to get more clearance under the belly of the vehicle to save me from having to throttle my way (Cautiously) over. A lot of the times I just had to take a little easier line than the one I wanted to try. If we didn't have that crossmember underneath our vehicles then I could gain possibly another 3-4 inches that would have gotten me out of a pickle. A 6" would also allow for more approach and departure angles.
I guess it all depends on what you want to do. If you plan to do some extreme ROCK crawling and need more flex then save your money. If you want some extra room so you don't get hung up then a 6" would be ideal. The way I see it is that you will be tackling the same terrain as a 3" but just have the clearance to make it without throttling to bump yourself up and over which with a rear locker engaged could spell damage.
Here are some situations where I wish I had it.
I actually slid down that before my front wheel touched dirt.
BellyDoc cut his crossmember and following him through the rock garden I can see where that little extra clearance allowed him to work his sliders to turn the vehicle where I had to fight and bulldoze the budbuilts in order to use my sliders to get me around the same lines. He replaced his transfer case with a Lefty so he had the extra room to cut his cross member off and include a new one that is tucked up higher.
Here is a place where I had to bump throttle my way through while each time I hoped my rear diff didn't give way.
I have more pictures but I think you can see the point.
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