Air Lockers, pros and cons
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sharkey964
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IMO...All pros.No cons.
I have Ashcroft's fitted front and rear.
Had them fo around 3 years,just once the front one did'nt dis-engage,but I put that down to the fact it was -6 and perhaps a bit of water in the air line might have froze.
I have Ashcroft's fitted front and rear.
Had them fo around 3 years,just once the front one did'nt dis-engage,but I put that down to the fact it was -6 and perhaps a bit of water in the air line might have froze.
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Air lockers are brilliant.
Fit and forget LSD and detroits work too but not so good in your 90 Natas, you would have to try it, but expensive for you to try and not like it though.
Get Ashcroft lockers and an ARB compressor is your best bet, then you turn them on when you want to and there like a normal open diff on the tarmac.
Search the forum, we've all had this argument plenty of times before.
Fit and forget LSD and detroits work too but not so good in your 90 Natas, you would have to try it, but expensive for you to try and not like it though.
Get Ashcroft lockers and an ARB compressor is your best bet, then you turn them on when you want to and there like a normal open diff on the tarmac.
Search the forum, we've all had this argument plenty of times before.
Air lockers are brilliant.
Fit and forget LSD and detroits work too but not so good in your 90 Natas, you would have to try it, but expensive for you to try and not like it though.
Get Ashcroft lockers and an ARB compressor is your best bet, then you turn them on when you want to and there like a normal open diff on the tarmac.
Search the forum, we've all had this argument plenty of times before.
Mine are very good but given my time again I'd buy air lockers, the main reason is the front lsd pulls on the road and its loads worse when towing our caravan
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So have the people with lockers upgraded there half shafts as well.
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Detroit rear, truetrac front has been good for me, handles fine on the road, doesnt pull at all. Just dont give it too much wellie on tight bends.
Just have standard halfshafts, this setup has been totally reliable on and off road and towing for last three years.
Just have standard halfshafts, this setup has been totally reliable on and off road and towing for last three years.
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I got a cheap set of a Detroit locker for the rear and Tru-trac for the front and I'm still of two minds to fit them or sell them on again and get air-lockers.
Mine is a 110 and I do fairly high mileage on the road and a fair deal of towing and then green-laning and as extreme as we can without getting damaged by rolling or stuck on trees every couple of weekends
I hate understeer with a passion though which is why I can't decide as I don't want the front pulling all over the road or shoving on into corners. Would like it to be abit tail-happy if anything if I had to choose
Have an air-locker to go into my trayback alright but that's totally different story
Mine is a 110 and I do fairly high mileage on the road and a fair deal of towing and then green-laning and as extreme as we can without getting damaged by rolling or stuck on trees every couple of weekends
I hate understeer with a passion though which is why I can't decide as I don't want the front pulling all over the road or shoving on into corners. Would like it to be abit tail-happy if anything if I had to choose
Have an air-locker to go into my trayback alright but that's totally different story
1, Trouble, what trouble?
2, Yes.
3 Ashcrofts
4 Never seen a bee's balls so no idea if they look like them or not.
It drives straight but on say a big hill under load the steering wheel is pulling one way, this may just be a problem with mine tho.
Yes if you get giddy with the throttle it will lock up and oversteer
I have hd rear cam shaft but standard fronts, I think I'm on my 8th in 18 months
I got a cheap set of a Detroit locker for the rear and Tru-trac for the front and I'm still of two minds to fit them or sell them on again and get air-lockers.
Mine is a 110 and I do fairly high mileage on the road and a fair deal of towing and then green-laning and as extreme as we can without getting damaged by rolling or stuck on trees every couple of weekends
I hate understeer with a passion though which is why I can't decide as I don't want the front pulling all over the road or shoving on into corners. Would like it to be abit tail-happy if anything if I had to choose
Have an air-locker to go into my trayback alright but that's totally different story
If you dint pay much then I would fit and try them they are the best single thing I did to mine, they are ment to be better in a 110 due to the longer wheel base
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cam shaft = 1/2 shaft?
Why are you having to replace them?
He means KAM(there a brand of HD half shaft)
If you have standard halfshafts next to non HD components then they become the weak point. So if your giving it the beans then your going to break the weak link.
If you have extreme tyres like simex and you catch a root or a rock with one of those lugs with high revs and spinning wheels, can you imagine the forces that are sent through the drivetrain!!!
Better to break a cheap half shaft than an expensive crown wheel or a CV.
Kam are the brand, they are rear hd 1/2 shafts.cam shaft = 1/2 shaft?
Why are you having to replace them?
Its the standard front cv joints I break, this is often enthusiastic off road driving that brakes them
