Air Locker Special Promotion!

[orion]

if only that deal was for a front locker

[nfpgasmask]

I want your 4.77s for my Trooper, and then an air locker in the rear.

Bart

[Ascinder]

Front lockers don't cost a lot of money, they just cost a lot of CVs

Plus it is a thread I started... that almost guarantees silence!

For some reason, "Who dares question the mighty ZEUS?!" just popped into my head, LOL!

[pbkid]

Front lockers don't cost a lot of money,

you must make pretty decent money beau... because i know i consider $2-3K a lot of money... thats almost as much as a whole VX nowadays..

plus, anyone who is seriously into offroading would also do gearing while they were in there which adds another $600-1000. and then you gotta tear apart the rear axle and do gearing and a locker in there....it adds up quick and its a big committment.

i think its just a bigger committment than most here are willing to make. and it would make a $10k vehicle into at least $20k.

[Ascinder]

You can get a front aussie locker for a couple hundred bucks. They work fine. And there was a guy who used to be on these forums that took a locked VX over the rubicon with stock gearing and he just broke a lot of CVs. You can also just Lincoln lock the rear for next to nothing. And trust me, I don't have a of of money at all, far from it. I just use what little I have wisely. You don't always need the latest ARB air locker to go have fun, you just have to be willing to make compromises and then, willing to live with them. How about going and learning to install gears yoursef instead of paying someone else?

[ZEUS]

You can get a front aussie locker for a couple hundred bucks. They work fine. And there was a guy who used to be on these forums that took a locked VX over the rubicon with stock gearing and he just broke a lot of CVs. You can also just Lincoln lock the rear for next to nothing. And trust me, I don't have a of of money at all, far from it. I just use what little I have wisely. You don't always need the latest ARB air locker to go have fun, you just have to be willing to make compromises and then, willing to live with them. How about going and learning to install gears yoursef instead of paying someone else?

That was Grandpa Bob/Green Dragon on the Rubi. He apparently drives with a heavy throttle which is a big no-no with lockers and weak CV's. Big Swede is running deep gearing, 35"s, and lockers and he tries to avoid shock load to save his CV's. Of course he breaks one every now and then, but our CV's are weak. Todd Adam's also has ARB's and has little trouble with his breaking stuff. Smooth throttle is usually easier applied when you have lockers, which is good since it is key to not breaking stuff. To Lincoln lock the rear end you would have to dispose of the LSD and install an open carrier to weld the spider gears together. So if anyone got to that point, IMO, they may as well install a locker into that carrier...

Don't question me!

[Ascinder]

Yeah, but didn't some troopers or rodeos come with open carriers and the same gearing? My point being that you could weld a third member up on the bench where it's easy to do and just swap it out. At a junk yard a third would cost you less than $100, at least at pick-and-pull here it's about $100 for an entire rear axle. All I was trying to say in my last post was that if you really do want to go more aggressive wheeling wise, then it can be done without a large pile of cash. There are many different levels of what you can do to enhance wheeling abilities, it just depends on if you're willing to do what it takes and accept certain compromises with either time, money, effectiveness, durability, etc. Look at my lift. I knew lifting that high would eat CV boots, but I went into it knowing and accepting that. Same with lockers. If you are willing to live with questionable traction that a lincoln locker will bring in slippery situations, but you think it's worth the payoff in the cost and performance departments, then go for it. Or if you want to go the cheapy route for the front locker, and are willing to live with ratcheting when you turn, then get the Aussie. Once I swap out my axles, I'll be running open diffs. for awhile until I can scrounge enough money up for lockers, but I'm willing to wait and suffer in the meantime to get what I want in the end. All I'm saying is that cost doesn't always equal results.

[ZEUS]

I'm with ya, Beau. I'm just clarifying that one part of lockers in a VX for folks who learn form the search tool...

Yeah, but didn't some troopers or rodeos come with open carriers and the same gearing? My point being that you could weld a third member up on the bench where it's easy to do and just swap it out. At a junk yard a third would cost you less than $100, at least at pick-and-pull here it's about $100 for an entire rear axle. All I was trying to say in my last post was that if you really do want to go more aggressive wheeling wise, then it can be done without a large pile of cash. There are many different levels of what you can do to enhance wheeling abilities, it just depends on if you're willing to do what it takes and accept certain compromises with either time, money, effectiveness, durability, etc. Look at my lift. I knew lifting that high would eat CV boots, but I went into it knowing and accepting that. Same with lockers. If you are willing to live with questionable traction that a lincoln locker will bring in slippery situations, but you think it's worth the payoff in the cost and performance departments, then go for it. Or if you want to go the cheapy route for the front locker, and are willing to live with ratcheting when you turn, then get the Aussie. Once I swap out my axles, I'll be running open diffs. for awhile until I can scrounge enough money up for lockers, but I'm willing to wait and suffer in the meantime to get what I want in the end. All I'm saying is that cost doesn't always equal results.