If you're ok with dropping $3k on lockers, whats another $300 to do it right and have a locking T-case?
To add some precision to this discussion: what matters in this context is moment of inertia, not rotating mass.On my DII, that's around 250 pounds of rotating mass, give or take. I can't remember the exact number at the moment. That's not a small amount.
To add some precision to this discussion: what matters in this context is moment of inertia, not rotating mass.
Sometime in 2000 or early 2001, Land Rover denied D2 owners the ability to even retrofit their vehicles with center diff lock (short of replacement of the transfer case with the earlier or 2004 unit). It was reinstated with much pomp and without any explanation in 2004 model year.
You can check if the transfer case in your truck has the "nipple" to attach the CDL linkage.
There is no good reason to lock a steering axle on a truck you plan to drive on the street. Unless your really good at replacing axles and body panels.
I think this is correct, but I think the real fucking BMW handed us was about a year or so later than you stated. As I remember it the nose cone with the center diff lock was present but not hooked up to anything until later. When they spent money to make a new front output housing without a lever for a diff lock it was just a big fuck you.
But as far as full time 4 wheel drive as apposition to all wheel drive comes down to the 2 speed transfer case. If you only have one speed t case it's AWD.
There is no good reason to lock a steering axle on a truck you plan to drive on the street. Unless your really good at replacing axles and body panels.
Get your transfer case lockable and you'll probably find that you don't need locking diffs front & rear. At least that was the case for me. I had an ARB locker in the rear diff of my old 1996 D1 and I fully planned on installing an ARB rear in my 2004 D2. I went so far as to install the ARB compressor in the rear cargo area. Then I realized how effective traction control on these things really is.