rear axle and locker help

[theycallme1016]

7.5 3.73 open rear. I cant stand the one wheel drive so i would like to know if it would be better to just get a LSD rear or change it to an 8.8 3.73 open and get the no-slip locker. Those are my two choices, what would be hands down better and better price wise.

 

[brinker88]

Stop posting the same question in multiple subforums. People WILL eventually answer you.

 

[scooter]

Im not sure what your asking, but ill try to answer what i think your askin.

A limited slip and a locker are 2 different things....

LS is just that, it limits the amount of diff/tire slip. If you get one tire in water or off the ground, it will spin while the other does not.

A locker absolutly ties the two tires together. Unless its "unloaded", ( ie: decelerating very hard) then it acts like a normal open diff. As soon as it becomes loaded again, it locks the two axles back together.
If one tire is in water or off the ground, both tires spin, or an axle breaks.

Lockers SUCK in the ice/snow. You will be in the ditch faster than the speed of thought. When both tires spin, the rear of your truck goes to the lowest elevation on the road. So if the whole road has a slight lean toward the on-comming lane, guess where your rear end is headed!!!
Just a little FYI.



Todd S.

 

[Gotta_gofast]

I daily drive a powertrax no-slip (highway in summer heat, freezing rain, 15" of snow, mud and fields to get to my hunting spots and around the property) and I will never EVER go back to anything less than a locker. As for snow, I find the locker very predictable unlike an open or lsd. I know what will happen, and I can rest assured that both tires are driving the truck forward. With an open diff, I would make a turn with one wheel slipping then out of no where the other would lose traction and it would cycle like this making snow unpredictable. In 4wd with a rear locker, the truck behaves very sound and motors through damn near anything within limits of ride height.

 

[theycallme1016]

most everyone says the no-slip is good but i would have to swap out my rear to do that

 

[kryptonitecb]

8.8 swap is easy to do and cheap, plus the locker options are more abundant

Sent from the road while ignoring traffic