I'm planning on doing a swap to a full-floating 10.25 inch axle in my 1986 f250. (I've got a semi-floating 10.25 right now) I want to do some offroading (I am also thinking about a dana 60 straight axle up front someday) but anyways when I put my new rear axle in, I don't want to leave an open carrier. I was looking at full-on traditional detroit lockers, but the truck is also my daily driver and work truck, so it will see lots of pavement and some towing and hauling. does anybody know where a good place is to shop for lockers or probably a limited slip for a ford/sterling 10.25 inch? I am also pretty interested in a detroit truetrac LS.

 

Try National wheel & tire or Randy's ring & pinion.

 

try summitracing.com

 

Thanks, already tried summit, they had a regular detroit and a powertrax or something like that. I went to randys and found quite a few possibilities, and I will try national next. I am also wondering though, as this is a daily driver, will the locker give me touble? Towing and snow and ice will also be realities. Is the limited slip the way to go, or will a locker be okay? And if I was to REALLY splurge and buy a selectable locker like an ARB, how hard and expensive is it install a compressor?