![]() ![]() You have to learn to pay attention in any low traction conditions on pavement, or you will spin out. How does having a locker in back effect handling? Front and back?Rear locker: You go around corners at coast/low power, or chirp a tire it grows on you. Pros/cons of locking both the front and back?Pro:It's like driving a totally different vehicle!Ĭon: cost twice as much, effects turning radius in 4wd, can cause handling quirks on extremely low traction conditions on pavement(ice, snow, etc) They're not as strong as the Detroit locker, but still strong enough to overload the axles Aussie, lock-rite, or Detroit? Pros/cons of each one?Detroit(full case) locker is stronger then the others, but as mentioned above, you have to set the lash on the gear set when you put one in(bearing press, shim packs, dial indicator, etc.)Īussie, lock-rite(and the Detroit EZ locker)are "drop in" and can usually be installed without removing the carrier(they replace the spider gears) They can take less then an hour to install. You can probably get one from a yard for under a couple hundred. ![]() If you really need a locker for the wheeling you do, you might consider getting an stock open axle out of a junk yard and leave it under the work bench "in case". This is my daily driver.If you smash anything inside the rear axle, it sits until you find the money to replace it. ![]()
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