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Old 08-30-2009, 08:27 PM   #51 (permalink)
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awsome thread!!! helped me out alot. i think im either going to put a aussie or lockright locker in the rear and a spool up front. is a aussie any better than a lockright or are they both about the same? i could put the locker and spool in, just really dont want to fool with it what do you think a local shop would charge me to put in 5.29 gears lockers and a spool? thanks
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Old 08-30-2009, 08:29 PM   #52 (permalink)
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I agree but i'm a poor college studend. The weld only cost me a tube of sealer to install the 3rd, much better than buying a locker.
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Old 09-01-2009, 03:25 PM   #53 (permalink)
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any one ever have a lunch box locker not work when they really needed it to work?
just wondering cuz i get in alot of sticky situations and i hate 1 tire fire!

what brands of "lunch box" lockers are out there?
the only ones i have come across and have heard good things about are the lock rites!

what makes a lunch box locker not a tru locker?
or would u have the same problems with a detroit locker, that u would with a lock rite?

oh and this is going up front on stock IFS! im welding the rear so i can spend money up front!
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Old 09-01-2009, 03:29 PM   #54 (permalink)
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Lunch box locker refers to one that just replaces the stock spider gears. A "full locker" replaces the entire differential carrier, that is you remove the ring gear from your open diff and bolt it to the locker and then install that into the 3rd.
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Old 09-01-2009, 03:45 PM   #55 (permalink)
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The only thing dangerous about a spooled rear end is if you don't know how to drive it. Most road racers use spools and the run all sorts of conditions. The proper cornering method is to brake before the corner, easing off the brake as you turn in, and then accelerating through the apex and out of the corner. If you don't accelerate through the turn the rig wants to push straight through, accelerating causes the outside tire to drive around and it can actually be felt as the rig squares off the corner. Of course to much throttle causes massive oversteer, or "fun" I run a spooled rear end and am going to do the front this weekend, I also go skiing in this same rig twenty or more times a year and love my spool! I have driven auto and "lunchbox" lockers and far and away prefer the spool. The unintentional lane changes and clank and bang and worries about breakage are gone, in their place is fabulous, magnificent, traction!

hey i welded me rear about 3 months ago and love every minute of it, hands down. im from washington, where do you wheel?????
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