Need a front locker....
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From: Neenah, Wisconsin
Need a front locker....
so we took my truck out tonight for some fun in the snowy fields....well i didn't get stuck at all, but it did take me three trys to get up the icy hill. I think its time for an e locker in the front diff....Plus, i couldn't get movin fast enough to have much fun, so we parked the truck and took the polaris atv out. all wheel drive on that thing wide open gets you movin pretty good in a foot and a half of snow....you'd be amazed.
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Jease, our ATV sucks in snow, it's only 2wd though, I got it buried in about a foot of snow going down hill, after a half an hour of pushing I just walked for the tractor and pulled it home.
I know how you feel, you just can't get going, I'd put a locker in the back before the front though.
I know how you feel, you just can't get going, I'd put a locker in the back before the front though.
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From: Spokane, WA
I got stuck in the snow at my parents place. Of course I get the smart assed "I thought you were driving a 4x4" from my mom. That settled it . . . by next fall I'll have lockers in BOTH axles. It sucks to sit there watching one wheel spin and one sit still.
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Lincoln 225 and 7018/6013 rods work awesome, but only if you have lockout hubs! but don't plan on turning inside of a football field unless you lock only one hub!
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From: Neenah, Wisconsin
no no no.....its going to be an eaton elocker as soon as the release the dana 44 model, which i hear is soon.
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That's what I always wondered. Everyone says don't weld your front-end, but I said, "I have lock-outs, shouldn't matter if I don't have them locked in, right?" For a while there I just wanted to weld my front and leave the back open cause I drive it everyday, I suppose when I drive in town during winter it would reek havoc when ever I hit cement plus sometimes I need it on the highway and if one tire was a little low it would wanna cause problems, it's just that welding rods are so much cheaper then lockers and a locked front-end would make me the weekend champ in the snow, I could still put chains on too to show them boys up.
That ATV of ours is full time 2wd, no diffy, a yamaha 250, still got stuck though.
That ATV of ours is full time 2wd, no diffy, a yamaha 250, still got stuck though.
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From: Oregon
The e-locker, or arb, is nice because you don't have to hop in and out to be able to make a tight turn...which you would with a welded front because you'd have to flip a hub. Fishy is exagerating about how they suck for turning...
edit: Fishy "isn't" exagerating about how much they suck for turning...not "is". Course, now I realize that wasn't even this thread
My experience with a welded front on a twisty muddy trail is that nothing would stop it going straight...which is pretty much what it wanted to to on the hairpin corners...
edit: Fishy "isn't" exagerating about how much they suck for turning...not "is". Course, now I realize that wasn't even this thread
My experience with a welded front on a twisty muddy trail is that nothing would stop it going straight...which is pretty much what it wanted to to on the hairpin corners...
Last edited by proeliator; Feb 22, 2004 at 09:50 PM.
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bah.. the welded diffs don't turn that bad offroad..
I like the way the new electrac looks myself, it would work nice in the rearend, much better than that arb.. open diffs suck in the winter, so no arb for me.
sadly I'm too poor for one.. so will keep making mine with a lincoln arc, and a box of 7018.
I like the way the new electrac looks myself, it would work nice in the rearend, much better than that arb.. open diffs suck in the winter, so no arb for me.
sadly I'm too poor for one.. so will keep making mine with a lincoln arc, and a box of 7018.
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Say I did weld it, and the highway was iffy one day and I had to leave it locked in 4x4 for 20 miles half ice, half cement. Is it gonna cause major problems when I just need reg. 4x4 in a tight icey parking lot, or am I gonna be running into to things.
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Ryan,
Run over to Michigan and bur this solid Dana 44 with Ox Locker and 4.56 gears. It relatively new set up. I thought about it but its too damn far. He has been asking $1500 for a while. It should be a bolt on.
Run over to Michigan and bur this solid Dana 44 with Ox Locker and 4.56 gears. It relatively new set up. I thought about it but its too damn far. He has been asking $1500 for a while. It should be a bolt on.
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From: Oregon
Originally posted by Redneck-Cowboy
4x4 in a tight icey parking lot, or am I gonna be running into to things.
4x4 in a tight icey parking lot, or am I gonna be running into to things.