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Kyle
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Personally I think the detroit for the rear is the clear easy KISS choice... The cables just seem bad.. Kinda like an old tractor or something...
I vote for the detroit also. Mine is around a year and a half old and its just there, no locking it, no breakage no hassles. If not for the clicking on tight turns it would be invsible on the street and its irreplaceable on the trail. Oh, by the way I went wheelin' at Tellico with two jeep rubicons and they have the electric lockers and one of the guys must have snaged something underneath because his front locker quit about half way through the trip. I know this was probably rare and nothing is fool proof but it is one more thing that can go wrong. I also HEAR of cable, air hose and wire failures but its hits home more when you see it first hand.
Ok this is the deal. I would probably go for the detroit, since in action I have seen them do wonders. But I have seen a couple of trutracs up front mess up and not work in situations where they obviously should work. So that leaves me with ARB up front, so if I'm going to all the bother to install an air system, I'm just gonna put an ARB in the back too.
That's why I was asking, is there anything else that's good and not too $$$$ for up front?
-Dean
That's why I was asking, is there anything else that's good and not too $$$$ for up front?
-Dean
Well remember Rick's? His one never locks. You may have been with us that day. And there was another one I can't remember where now.
TT is limited slip and isn't supossed to lock... So not locking means it's working.
Though I went with ARBs front and rear cause I like the fancy switches and the hisssssing when you unlock em
Though I went with ARBs front and rear cause I like the fancy switches and the hisssssing when you unlock em
Eric,
Well either way it wasn't much use in the mud. It was one wheel stopped, the other one spinning freely. If that's normal, I dont want it. Even his ETC didn't kick it into play.
Well either way it wasn't much use in the mud. It was one wheel stopped, the other one spinning freely. If that's normal, I dont want it. Even his ETC didn't kick it into play.
Trying to get up that hill that lst time and a couple times coming out of a "puddle" a locker inthe front would have been great. I admitted in the other thread that an ARB is better but not needed 99.99% of the time. MY etc has been shot for years and never worked properly. creative brakeing helps, but on that last little hill coming out the of the stream crossing i was so dug in that i dont think anything could have saved me, except maybe really wide tires (im goin 33x14 next when my boggers wear out)
peter made it up though is smaller tires and a rear detroit so who knows , maybe i just suck at driving
-Rick
peter made it up though is smaller tires and a rear detroit so who knows
, maybe i just suck at driving-Rick
Rick, wasn't that your truck in the mud that was spinning the fronts like an open diff?
Oh and Steve, before you bad Rick's tires, generally he gets stuck less that anyone else, at least in the places I've been! And we all have MTs
Oh and Steve, before you bad Rick's tires, generally he gets stuck less that anyone else, at least in the places I've been! And we all have MTs
Well i guess there are trade offs. I sure not driving across country with some boggers, or 33x14.5's. My goal is to have a vehicle that I can drive across country, go wheeling and drive back. But that's only my opinion.