I just saw over on Pirate Ausssie lockers just released their locker for the v6 diffs.
http://www.aussielocker.com/item.php...0/320011/.html

 

Sweeet!!!

 

Holy crap!!! It only took what...6+ years of "in development".

I look forward to hearing reviews vs the lockright

 

Wow, I didn't really expect this to happen... ever. That's awesome. Now, I can upgrade to 33" tires without going to a Lock Right.

 

Yippee!!!

 

Time to buy my rear locker

 

I guess they weren't kidding when I emailed them 2 weeks ago.

Sweet.

 

Wait!!!
I need a 27 spline locker for my pre-96 V6 diff!

 

What axle do you have that's 27 spline? All Toyota 8" diffs are 30 spline.

 

Whoops, my bad.

It has 27 pinion splines and 30 axle splines.

V6 locker it is.

 

so for the locker newbeez like myself what the big deal bot the aussies?

why better then e-locker?

 

It's not better than an elocker.

It's the best of the cheapest lockers - check out the locker FAQ in the Offroad Tech section.

 

An auto-locker like the aussie is supposedly the strongest and quietest auto-locker. It's an inexpensive and reliable modification that will give the best off-road improvement. Hands down.
The factory e-locker swap requires some modification to the housing and are hard to find, especially with the gear ratio you want.
After market e-lockers, cable lockers or air lockers are expensive. They tend to cost more than the entire truck itself.

 

I disagree. The ONLY lockers to not sacrifice either on road drivability or off-road performance are the selectables (ARB or elocker). Yes, you have to pay for that.

The lunchbox lockers are significantly hampered by the weakness of the stock carrier - going to a full carrier replacement (like ARB or Detroit) is a significant diff strength upgrade.

If you want a locker that is pretty drivable on the street, works pretty well offroad, is cheap, and you can install yourself, then Aussie is a good choice.

Some of us want more, and realize we have to pay for it.

 

I would say the only "detriment" I've found to having a rear Aussie locker is that I can't lend out my truck to my crappy-driver friends... oh darn eh? Mud tires and removing swaybars are more-invasive modifications for a road-driven IMO.

The Aussie doesn't have the cache' of a ARB, but I wouldn't swap out the Aussie even if I could afford a rear ARB. Up front, I could legitimize the ARB, but in the rear, I think the benefit/cost ratio is low if you're upgrading from a rear Aussie once you figure out the relatively-minor on-road quirks of the locker.

Back to the discussion of the new V6 Aussie, I wonder if it will be much smoother than the Lock-Right. The V6 locker uses the stock spider gears which means the bevel on the locker gear teeth is going to have to match the bevel of the stock side-gears- this means that it will match the bevel of the Lock-Right. As a result, less of the locker can be engineered for smoothness. The side gear bevels were calculated to work well as gears, not to fit some locker.

I wonder...

 

Do you let your buddies "test-drive" your girlfriend?
Nuff said.

I'll be picking up one of these lockers and tossing it in factory 4.88's. Stay tuned for a write-up.

 

Here's a question:

Honestly, how would it affect driving, if I like to rally tight corners?

 

buckle up and hang on

 

There are several threads in this forum on lunchbox lockers & their quirks that you can research, but if you like ripping around tight corners all of the time, you are probably not going to like an auto-locker with a manual trans. I have front & rear lock-rights and while I love them off road, you do have to change your driving style on the street. Especially if you lift and/or go with larger tires.