If you have lockers, no need to finesse the skinny pedal.

 

as for the 90 percent? can you site your source for the statistics or are we making them up?

I mean if we do the math Jeep states that only 10 percent of Jeep owners will ever take their Jeep off road. so are you part of that 90 percent???or did you poll some people on the trail one day?

 

I like that answer Piginajeep!!

 

I might be the only one, But I would prob do front first....

And thats only from my R/C crawler experience.


(My JK is a mall crawler)

 

I put a lockright in the front of mine, may get a detroit or something similar for the rear.

 

You should already have limited-slip in the rear so...

Fully locked in the front, LSD in the rear

OR

Fully locked in the rear, nothing in the front

 

to the OP.. if your JK is getting new gears, why dont you just break the bank and lock up both ends????? It will still be cheaper than doing the labor twice down the road to lock whichever axle is still open.

 

Okay...let's take a look at the folks who responded to this thread.

8 people indicated their agreement with installing a locker by suggesting one or the other.

1 person said that lockers are crap (you)

1 person mentioned that with lockers you don't need to finesse the skinny pedal. (neither for nor against)

So...80% of the respondents favour lockers.

No, I don't have a poll or a study to refer to...but among the folks that I wheel with there is no question at all. A locked rig on 33's can do things that Jeeps on 36's with open diffs have problems with. The two things that will make the biggest difference to any given rig's offroad performance are lockers and beadlocks.

Take a look at rigs that are truly built. I'm talking about the rigs that have given up any pretense of DD use, and are optimized for running on the rocks or in the dirt. How many of them have open diffs?

Because you say so, I'll admit that on the terrain you choose to wheel, lockers may not be needed...but in the place I go wheeling, they make a huge difference. If you don't believe me, try following me through three or four feet of snow with open diffs. I'm sure that you'll see the difference in a hurry.

 

I've seen many cases to where the front would help more on rock crawling than the rear. If your crawling, I'd be tempted to say front. All else, rear first. If the front tires are needing to go up something steep it is best to have the front tires grabbing onto what its trying to go up. Versus the rear tires trying to push the front tires up, rather than the fronts being driven to turn up the obstacle.

Front first for crawling I'd imagine to be arguably. On the rubi i have rear and rear/front selections only. So i cant say from experience how a locked front/open rear performs.

 

I did the front first. I have a locked front end only (Aussie) and I can tell you it is a huge improvement over an open front differential. I can crawl much steeper and more difficult terrain without spinning the tires (regardless of the line taken). I can also tell you that if you do any driving in deep sand dunes or mud, unlocked differentials will not go anywhere like locked differentials will do. There may be some situations where a locked differential may not be an advantage (ice), but for the most part they are a big improvement. I'm planning on a Detroit locker for the rear in the near future.