LOCKERS LOCKERS LOCKERS

[WhtXJwith32s]

I am saving up to get locked and im thinking of a couple brands.....
ARB
Ox Trax
The new Detroit Electrac

basically i want my diffs to have locking capabilities but to be able to un lock them

any ideas and good brands, any aggreements with the brands i have chosen

[deadpedal]

Get an Ox TRax with the updated 35 rear axle (solve two problems at the same time) ahh, dreaming of a 4.56:1...
(...deadpedal drifts off for a moment....)
That'll keep you going slow over boulders, going straight up.

It sounds like you're going for on-demand locking, so i'm gonna say my 2 cents about the ARB too though.
ARB is nice, but I don't trust it becuase the air compressor is a weak design link. At least with the Ox you can switch out cables, which sounds a lot easier than having to huff and puff and...

blow a lot of air into your diff.

That could take a while stranded in the boondocks.

As for the Electrac, never dealt with one, never even seen one before.
Good luck and happy locker hunting!

[jdogg4]

not trying to get you to jump ship, but there is a topic on this on JU right now.

http://www.jeepsunlimited.com/forums/showthread.php?s=6aaf0ea1c04a95f27be2c784af5e2ec7& threadid=328068

you'll come back now ya hear. :D

[deadpedal]

I was never good with vacuum leaks in my engines, I guess that's where I get my feelings about air leaks. I read the JU forum posts and all I got out of it is that they both have their problems. ARB has their air leak problems and an Ox has its' cable problems.

So this is what I got out of the whole thing.

On-demand lockers aren't as "drop-in-and-forget" as other lockers.

Expect some limited problems early on and they'll eventually get solved, but in the end I think I would actually like to try an ARB. Daddy's getting VIAIR for Christmas.

[jdogg4]

I was never good with vacuum leaks in my engines, I guess that's where I get my feelings about air leaks. I read the JU forum posts and all I got out of it is that they both have their problems. ARB has their air leak problems and an Ox has its' cable problems.

So this is what I got out of the whole thing.

On-demand lockers aren't as "drop-in-and-forget" as other lockers.

Expect some limited problems early on and they'll eventually get solved, but in the end I think I would actually like to try an ARB. Daddy's getting VIAIR for Christmas.

ya it's how I felt about it and anyone I've ever talked to has never had it work perfect before. allways going to have problems with it from either of those two system's

[deadpedal]

Beautiful thing about them though, they are on-demand.

Open or locked, supposed to be awesome when in use. I'm willing to overlook a few desgn flaws, as long as I can fix the problem myself and it doesn't raise the price too much.