how do i tell if i have the factory locker?
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how do i tell if i have the factory locker?
greetings,
the guy I purchased my '98 from "said" that my truck had the factory locker. Didn't really matter to me with regards to my purchase...but now I'm curious if he was just feeding me a load of bull.
How can I tell?
thanks,
aaron
the guy I purchased my '98 from "said" that my truck had the factory locker. Didn't really matter to me with regards to my purchase...but now I'm curious if he was just feeding me a load of bull.
How can I tell?
thanks,
aaron
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Checking if you have a switch that says "diff lock" or something like that, can be a first...
And second; check your rear differential, if you see a small electric motor on top of the diff carrier, you are the proud owner of a 100% locker.
And second; check your rear differential, if you see a small electric motor on top of the diff carrier, you are the proud owner of a 100% locker.
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Should be a button on the left of the steering wheel beside the dimmer that says lock on it.
If you've got one, it really helps in the deep snow and off-road. Otherwise no real use for it.
If you've got one, it really helps in the deep snow and off-road. Otherwise no real use for it.
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d a g - !
sucks, I have no button.....does this mean I'm S.O.L?
no biggie really, just wonderin if that dued was talking smack to me when he was showing it to me.
~a
no biggie really, just wonderin if that dued was talking smack to me when he was showing it to me.
~a
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aftermarket
don't think he had and aftermarket install done...but *maybe*
(what to look for there, with no interior switches?)
I was up under there the other day but didn't think to look,
but...I'll be back on the bell crank saga and will poke around.
thanks guys,
aaron
(what to look for there, with no interior switches?)
I was up under there the other day but didn't think to look,
but...I'll be back on the bell crank saga and will poke around.
thanks guys,
aaron
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Drive up onto a rock or ledge or a dirt berm with one front tire in 2WD so that 1 rear tire comes off the ground - if you can keep driving up it you've got a full-time rear locker - if the 1 rear tires just spins in the air you got no locker. Actually, without the locker you probably won't get the tire in the air - it will just lose traction before you can climb high enough to get the tire off the ground.
This is how I made sure my E-locker install was working correctly.
My guess, you have no locker of any kind.
John
This is how I made sure my E-locker install was working correctly.
My guess, you have no locker of any kind.
John
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A full time rear locker? I have never heard of that...
Well, if there is a such thing, you will experience the following on dry pavent:
Squealing and chattering tires
The turning radius of a greyhound bus
A LSD is one thing...but a full time locker?
Well, if there is a such thing, you will experience the following on dry pavent:
Squealing and chattering tires
The turning radius of a greyhound bus
A LSD is one thing...but a full time locker?
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By Full-Time locker, I think he means a soft-locker. These are always engaged until the force of a turn overcomes it, thus disengaging it until you exit the turn.
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Originally posted by AllOtherNamesTakenSo
if there are no switches, you cant tell unless you upon up the diff and look in.
if there are no switches, you cant tell unless you upon up the diff and look in.
EDIT: see the clump of crap on the side of this 3rd? your 3rd member will have that big-azz thing on the drivers side of it if you have the elocker: The elocker was a special order on the SR5's otherwise I would have had one on mine, that's when I was too stupid to know I'd need one. If he didn't order one at purchase than it doesn't have one.
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Originally posted by ssbogger
Im pretty sure they make full time lockers but maybe not for a 4runner. Isnt that what a Detroit is?
Im pretty sure they make full time lockers but maybe not for a 4runner. Isnt that what a Detroit is?