Good locker for on road use?

[wizkid00104]

What's the difference in an auto-and manual when choosing lockers?

Frank

My guess would be that a manual locker is an ox locker. You have the lever to engage the lock compared to a Detroit which unlocks when going around corners automatically.

Koda, if you want to go up to an 8.8, you can get an eaton posi. I just putine in last night and took it out last night and this afternoon and I am floored by the increase I traction over an open diff. It's not a locker, but with 800lb springs it is one he'll of a posi.

 

[Sasquatch_Ryda]

My guess would be that a manual locker is an ox locker. You have the lever to engage the lock compared to a Detroit which unlocks when going around corners automatically.

I think he was meaning what is different about choosing a locker with an automatic trans vs manual trans.

 

[wizkid00104]

I think he was meaning what is different about choosing a locker with an automatic trans vs manual trans.

You are right, my bad. I had a brain fart...

 

[Frank The Tank]

Yeah, I meant the trans, I could have been a tad more clear...... but why should there be a difference? both shift...... though I tend to be a tad more violent than the granny shifting auto's I have driven.

Frank

 

[Sasquatch_Ryda]

An automatic doesn't go into 'neutral' if you will, between shifts, it applies constant torque. Where as with a manual transmission when you push the clutch in to shift, you unload the drive train for a second, then reload it when you disengage the clutch.

 

[koda6966]

Koda, if you want to go up to an 8.8, you can get an eaton posi. I just putine in last night and took it out last night and this afternoon and I am floored by the increase I traction over an open diff. It's not a locker, but with 800lb springs it is one he'll of a posi.

I want to, but I don't want to spend the money to redo the brakes. The ones on my 7.5 are brand new and I'm just going to swap over to my new axle (upgrading to an axle with 3.73 gears, maybe 4.10) and call it done.

 

[wizkid00104]

I want to, but I don't want to spend the money to redo the brakes. The ones on my 7.5 are brand new and I'm just going to swap over to my new axle (upgrading to an axle with 3.73 gears, maybe 4.10) and call it done.

Funny you mention that. I used my brakes from the 7.5. I didn't even have to undo the lines. I bungeed the. Up fir the swap and put the back on with out any troubles.

 

[koda6966]

Funny you mention that. I used my brakes from the 7.5. I didn't even have to undo the lines. I bungeed the. Up fir the swap and put the back on with out any troubles.

For an 8.8 swap? Were your brakes 9" or 10"? I can't remember which it is.. but I'm pretty sure my drums are the size that's different from the 8.8 with drums.

 

[wizkid00104]

For an 8.8 swap? Were your brakes 9" or 10"? I can't remember which it is.. but I'm pretty sure my drums are the size that's different from the 8.8 with drums.

Mine were 9 inch. It doesn't matter because the back plates are the exact same bolt pattern. I didn't want to get new brakes either.

 

[koda6966]

Really? That's interesting. I'll look into that. I've always thought that I'd have to buy new drums because the ones on my old one are a different size.. hmm..

 

[nooberiffic]

I thought supercabs had the 10 inch drums.

 

[wizkid00104]

Really? That's interesting. I'll look into that. I've always thought that I'd have to buy new drums because the ones on my old one are a different size.. hmm..

You just never see an 8.8 with the little brakes because a heavier axle implies bigger brakes. I only suggested this because I found my axle with the posi installed with matching for racing hears and a trickflow girdle for 325. It's not a locker, but you can't really beat that price for the parts you get.

 

[koda6966]

Did any explorers have drum brake 8.8's or just the Rangers?

 

[Beanmachine7000]

Did any explorers have drum brake 8.8's or just the Rangers?

My Explorer does ('91)

 

[beaujt]

the explorers 94 and older have drums... 95 and newer are disc. but can't ya buy a new detriot locker for a like 650 or 700? Just wondering cause thats what i've been wanting to put in my 8.8 when i re-gear it