Need Some Help With Regearing
06-16-2011, 11:05 AM
#41
Registered User
Do you have any experience with having a locker in the front end?
Cause I do. And I don't see where your statement of "the cv's can't handle the stress" has any validity.
I've had a lockright in my front end for a year and a half. I wheel the piss out of my truck. I've got 35's. I've wheeled in Moab, The Hammers, and practically everywhere there is to wheel in SoCal and I've broken 1 CV in that year and a half. And it was a complete accident, on a snow run, bombing up a hill and I slid off line into a rock with too much momentum.
The CV's can take it just fine as long as you know how to drive.
So please, if you don't have experience with something, don't talk like you do.
06-16-2011, 12:42 PM
#42
li'l info on d.c. snow:
it either snows like crazy, or not at all. and it's not the snow you'll have trouble with. it's the 3 million other drivers on the road at rush hour getting stuck in the snow. i hit a volvo (well, not really "hit" as much as "got aquainted with"), and i'm still willing to bet if i had a locker, it wouldn't have happened. so you will have to drive in the snow every now and again, but only about 10-15 days total out of the year.
it either snows like crazy, or not at all. and it's not the snow you'll have trouble with. it's the 3 million other drivers on the road at rush hour getting stuck in the snow. i hit a volvo (well, not really "hit" as much as "got aquainted with"), and i'm still willing to bet if i had a locker, it wouldn't have happened. so you will have to drive in the snow every now and again, but only about 10-15 days total out of the year.
06-17-2011, 05:49 AM
#43
just gonna throw in my 2 cents, I wouldn't put a lunchbox in the front or rear if you don't wheel it that often. The front CV's can't handle the stress and you'll probably not enjoy DD w/ one in the rear. Pick up an elocker for the rear, I just bought one locally for $300! I still need to regear it and mod my housing but since its already out I can just take it to a local shop for the regear. ECGS is the best so just have them do the regear (if you don't want an elocker) and bask in the glory of a 5yr warranty! You WILL need armor and skids if you wheel it, take the money you planned on using for a trail rig and buy yourself a camry so you can wheel the piss out of the 4Runner you already have.
I am definitely planning on having ECGS do all of the gearing work. I am going to just buy the complete assembled 3rds with the gears and lockers already installed so the install will be a simple drop-and-replace. Yeah that 5 year warranty is pretty sweet added bonus.
After regearing and lockers armor is next on my to do list. My front skid has seen better days, I could really use some rock sliders, and I have been dying to get a new front bumper ever since I discovered Shrockworks.
Do you have any experience with having a locker in the front end?
Cause I do. And I don't see where your statement of "the cv's can't handle the stress" has any validity.
I've had a lockright in my front end for a year and a half. I wheel the piss out of my truck. I've got 35's. I've wheeled in Moab, The Hammers, and practically everywhere there is to wheel in SoCal and I've broken 1 CV in that year and a half. And it was a complete accident, on a snow run, bombing up a hill and I slid off line into a rock with too much momentum.
The CV's can take it just fine as long as you know how to drive.
So please, if you don't have experience with something, don't talk like you do.
Cause I do. And I don't see where your statement of "the cv's can't handle the stress" has any validity.
I've had a lockright in my front end for a year and a half. I wheel the piss out of my truck. I've got 35's. I've wheeled in Moab, The Hammers, and practically everywhere there is to wheel in SoCal and I've broken 1 CV in that year and a half. And it was a complete accident, on a snow run, bombing up a hill and I slid off line into a rock with too much momentum.
The CV's can take it just fine as long as you know how to drive.
So please, if you don't have experience with something, don't talk like you do.
li'l info on d.c. snow:
it either snows like crazy, or not at all. and it's not the snow you'll have trouble with. it's the 3 million other drivers on the road at rush hour getting stuck in the snow. i hit a volvo (well, not really "hit" as much as "got aquainted with"), and i'm still willing to bet if i had a locker, it wouldn't have happened. so you will have to drive in the snow every now and again, but only about 10-15 days total out of the year.
it either snows like crazy, or not at all. and it's not the snow you'll have trouble with. it's the 3 million other drivers on the road at rush hour getting stuck in the snow. i hit a volvo (well, not really "hit" as much as "got aquainted with"), and i'm still willing to bet if i had a locker, it wouldn't have happened. so you will have to drive in the snow every now and again, but only about 10-15 days total out of the year.
I think you will be just fine once you get that ARB installed
06-17-2011, 06:56 AM
#44
Do you have any experience with having a locker in the front end?
Cause I do. And I don't see where your statement of "the cv's can't handle the stress" has any validity.
I've had a lockright in my front end for a year and a half. I wheel the piss out of my truck. I've got 35's. I've wheeled in Moab, The Hammers, and practically everywhere there is to wheel in SoCal and I've broken 1 CV in that year and a half. And it was a complete accident, on a snow run, bombing up a hill and I slid off line into a rock with too much momentum.
The CV's can take it just fine as long as you know how to drive.
So please, if you don't have experience with something, don't talk like you do.
Cause I do. And I don't see where your statement of "the cv's can't handle the stress" has any validity.
I've had a lockright in my front end for a year and a half. I wheel the piss out of my truck. I've got 35's. I've wheeled in Moab, The Hammers, and practically everywhere there is to wheel in SoCal and I've broken 1 CV in that year and a half. And it was a complete accident, on a snow run, bombing up a hill and I slid off line into a rock with too much momentum.
The CV's can take it just fine as long as you know how to drive.
So please, if you don't have experience with something, don't talk like you do.
06-17-2011, 06:58 AM
#45
Registered User
06-17-2011, 07:43 AM
#46
Not really. The rear end can be unpredictable sometimes. But once you have it in there for a while you'll learn how to drive with it (when to clutch, when to let off the gas, etc...). I'm pretty sure you have an auto trans. I've heard that with an auto trans the rear locker is pretty transparent. More so than a manual trans at least. I wouldn't worry about, man.
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