I picked up a set of lightly used Rubicon 44's for my 2014 JKU. I looked at some other threads and wired the lockers up to two switches on my SPOD and an LED indicator light to confirm when the lockers were locked/unlocked. My indicator lights are on with ignition (I thought they would just indicate when the lockers were locked) and my lockers are not locking. Does anyone have experience completing this successfully? I'm wondering if the lockers aren't getting enough power from the SPOD. I'll attach a crude drawing of how I wired them up. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If they are wired correctly, their might be a problem with the lockers.

 

I'd first just confirm the lockers are working properly. I'm not an electric wiz, so that would be my course of action. If you remove the wires going from the locker plunger/sensors to the sPOD, you will be left with the lockers only hooked up. When you trigger the locker from the sPOD switch, you should hear each one clicking on/off as the actuator ring snaps back and forth inside the diff. I've got Rubi lockers wired to my sPOD, but I didn't worry about an indicator light at all. It's clear as day when the switch is flipped if they are really working or not.......or in my case, when one is stuck on even though I've turned it off.

Do you have a link to what you followed wiring them up?

 

https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/modi...ire-up-305293/
I followed this old thread. The plungers are hooked up to an ignition hot and only hit the SPOD for the ground. I'll take another look at them tonight to see if I can hear them. Any tricks on getting them unstuck if they aren't working properly?

 

If you are not up to speed on how the Rubi locker works, Ronjenx locker study is the best thing explaining things. Take a moment and look at this thread and the pics -

https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/stoc...-study-263666/

It's good to have a general understanding of what's going on inside the pumpkin. If you remove the fill plug on the diff cover and shine a light in there, you are able to see the thin actuator ring moving back and forth as the locker is turned on/off. You should also be able to hear this snapping back and forth with if you're just close to the axle. If perhaps the locker gets stuck on, you can usually gently move the ring over by sticking a flat screwdriver through the fill hole.....unless you're like me and have bigger issues with your locker

I'd have a hard time thinking that they are actually not functioning properly.

 

Thanks. I have read the locker study a couple of times over the past week. I ended up getting my lockers to work last night. I was getting some power loss between the switch and the locker plugs, so I switched my grounds from the chassis to the battery and that did the trick.

 

Good deal. Time to get out there and find a use for em now!

 

I'm a little late but give Josh or John at sPOD a shout, they walk people through wiring lockers on the daily.