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Detroit Lockers or Aussie Lockers

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kirksjeep:
If your TJ is a DD, go with a selectable locker of you have the choice.  You can run an aussie in the D30 with no problems in a daily driver, but the rear is a lot different handeling.  My YJ jumped a lane comming out of Home Depot yesterday and it was due to the rear locker. 

calvynandhobbs:
Kirk is very correct in that anything with an auto-locking mechanism like the Aussie or Detroit requires special handling when installed in the rear. Going around corners and giving too much gas can cause lane jumps and the person next you to give you funny looks. It takes time to get used to. I'm still feeling my Detroit out right now and only coasting through corners until I find its grabbing point.

Flex:
I say if ur gonna put a locker in a turd (aka A Dana 35) that will only increase the time that is going to take to break the turd in half i would go with an aussie, just do to the fact its not smart to spend a bunch of money on an axle ur just going to come to the realization sucks and then want to get something bigger like a dana 44 that u could just bolt right in as long as it comes out of another TJ.

BlacXJeep:
agreed chuckster, do not try to polish the turd. cheapest best route, would be getting some junkyard 4.10 axles and putting autolockers like an aussie in. True story. avoid buying gears if you can, they are a pain to install. And you would most likely have to bring it to a shop, and if you buy an expensive locker now, it will be useless when you go to buy bigger tires, because you wont be able to turn your tires with baby gears. Your jeep would be a dog. lockers have certain gear ratio  cutoffs, were they change the carrier in your axle. if you have 3.07 gears right now, even 33s will be tough to turn. I have 33s with 3.55s with an automatic, and its just ok. I also am not running any lockers and I wheel just fine. just my .02.

Flex:

--- Quote from: BlacXJeep on June 21, 2010, 04:08:54 AM ---agreed chuckster, do not try to polish the turd. cheapest best route, would be getting some junkyard 4.10 axles and putting autolockers like an aussie in. True story. avoid buying gears if you can, they are a pain to install. And you would most likely have to bring it to a shop, and if you buy an expensive locker now, it will be useless when you go to buy bigger tires, because you wont be able to turn your tires with baby gears. Your jeep would be a dog. lockers have certain gear ratio  cutoffs, were they change the carrier in your axle. if you have 3.07 gears right now, even 33s will be tough to turn. I have 33s with 3.55s with an automatic, and its just ok. I also am not running any lockers and I wheel just fine. just my .02.

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Yea u can deff. wheel just fine with no lockers, guess im not one to talk, but if u just find someone that u have good communication with and u can trust the safety of ur rig to there is not alot u can't do with not a whole lot of extra parts. If u dont believe me ask the guys that saw duece run the valley on the back loop at BTC.

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