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well what am I supposed to shift with, and hit the little red button with if I used more than that 
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Just wondering if its a bad idea to weld my front or rear diff in my 95? Here in the great north there is snow on the ground from november to april. This vehicle is my daily driver. It will be driven on the highway, with snow, ice, dry pavement, and is no stranger to mud. Having an open diff really sucks in the snow and ice, i have no traction.
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having a locker in the rear for a street driven truck that sees ice is a bad idea, i hear! the truck will do some very strange things. you might do the front if ya got manual hubs but not the rear. also if you weld up the rear you will go through more tires than you do underwear! trust me i did it!
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I also had a welded frontend for a while, as stated before if you lock one hub in the driving isn't to bad and the extra traction is a diffinate bonus when needed,
one thing to remember,(speaking from experience) one time I lost a u-joint in my rear driveline so I remove the driveline and locked in one hub to get to town, well with one front hub locked you can do some crazy mad one wheel burnouts
but when your driving down the road and you goose the throttle is will pull really hard in one direction (direction depends on which hub is locked) then right when you get the crap scared out of you and you let off the throttle it jerks back the other way, (I'd used up both lanes of the road before I knew what happend) thats when I thought to myself "don't do that again"
any way just thought you guys might like to know that incase you decide to weld up you frontend and then lose a u-joint later on,
one thing to remember,(speaking from experience) one time I lost a u-joint in my rear driveline so I remove the driveline and locked in one hub to get to town, well with one front hub locked you can do some crazy mad one wheel burnouts
but when your driving down the road and you goose the throttle is will pull really hard in one direction (direction depends on which hub is locked) then right when you get the crap scared out of you and you let off the throttle it jerks back the other way, (I'd used up both lanes of the road before I knew what happend) thats when I thought to myself "don't do that again"
any way just thought you guys might like to know that incase you decide to weld up you frontend and then lose a u-joint later on,
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Originally Posted by fishmanndotcom
having a locker in the rear for a street driven truck that sees ice is a bad idea, i hear!
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They are much less twitchy with less hp and an auto though.
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