best locker?

[beaujt]

ok, so since i am putting a locker in the rear end, i NEED it to be able to hold up to most anything. and well i haven't heard very many good things about the lunch box lockers for the rear. i've been figuring i should just stick with detriot, but i plan on running 37's(i already bought em) and 4.56 gears in a 8.8 31 spline with disc brakes. it has a factory l/s... anyways, i'm looking for quality, and if you know of where i could get one for a reasonable price cause so far the cheapest locker i've found has still been 550 plus.

or if i'm wrong about the lunch box lockers please enlighten me!

 

[Sasquatch_Ryda]

Detroit locker hands down. I've been running mine for 2 years now with my 36" TSL SX's with zero problems. It works, plain and simple. And strong as hell.

I would not run a a lunchbox style locker on 36/37" tires...that is a lot of stress put on the cross pin/ stock carrier. Plus the carrier is definitely not a strong point of the 8.8.

$550 is a pretty damn good price for the Detroit locker.

 

[wahlstrom1]

Running the same setup your speaking of, and no issues what so ever. Run the detroit and you'll wonder why you didn't buy one sooner.

 

[beaujt]

well i'm not saying i found a detriot for 550 haha... they are more like 650 plus i think. thanks, just wanted to make sure there wasn't something better than detriot that i didn't know about. cause my dad's got detroits in his kenworth rear-ends and everytime winter hits he just starts talking about how great they are! especially with all the passes he goes through.

 

[4x4junkie]

Yeah, the Detroit is hard to beat for it's ruggedness and simplicity.

Just curious... Why 4.56 gears with 37s in mind?

 

[wahlstrom1]

I would have asked the same question until I drove mine... Aside from pulling trailers (getting started kinda sucks now) it works great with a 4.0L and a stick. It feels better driving this combo then it did 3.73's and 33's and I can keep up with stock trucks with 4.0L/stick so I know it's not a real dog. I can get the wheel speed to clean the tires in 1-2 in low that some of the lower gear'd guys I wheel with can't. If it was a straight wheeler, I'd go deeper for a better crawl but for a daily driver it's impressing me so far.

 

[RangerSVT]

I geared RangerSVT for 35's, but when they wore down, I got an unbeatable price for the 37" Iroks ($100 for all 4)...If I had to regear all over again I'd gone with 488's or 513's...My mileage is around 10-13 mpg between towing trailers, city driving and highway driving. I'm only turning about 2400 rpm at 75 mph, so I've got plenty of rpms to spare to gain a little more power and mpg's...
SVT

 

[beaujt]

Yeah, the Detroit is hard to beat for it's ruggedness and simplicity.

Just curious... Why 4.56 gears with 37s in mind?

well cause i picked up a d35 front pumpkin with 4.56 gears and locker for like 350 and then 5-37" super swampers on beadlocks for under 900. so i figure if i really don't like the combo then i'll put 35's on after i wear out the 37's. and this is my daily driver still, mostly highway travel. and i figured i'd be ok with power and fuel mileage with that combo.

 

[beaujt]

cause right now i've got 31's with 3.73 and i'm still getting about 21 mpg hwy cause i usually only go about 60 to 65. i'd be ok wouldn't i? i figure i'd still get about 18 mpg hwy since i won't be putting my foot in it too bad.

 

[RangerSVT]

Since you have a manual trans, you can run a tank in 4th gear and another tank in 5th and see which is better...best I managed was 16 mpg with 456's and 35's, and I hear people with 488's and 35's getting 17-19 mpg, so deeper gears is not always a bad thing, higher rpm's dont always mean worse fuel mileage...
SVT

 

[beaujt]

actually its an auto. but i can still pick between drive and OD. thats part of the reason why im willing to put a detriot in, since the locker will essentially always have a "load" while i'm driving.

yeah i'll try it and see, and if it dont work like i hope, i can always sell the tires and get 35's or something cause those swampers, 2 were brand new and 3 had close to 90% tread left. and i don't drive that much while i'm at school.

 

[Sasquatch_Ryda]

You won't even know the Detroit is back there with an auto transmission. Mine doesn't chirp the tires around corners or make any obscene noises at all. Just pure traction.

 

[Explorin94]

You won't even know the Detroit is back there with an auto transmission. Mine doesn't chirp the tires around corners or make any obscene noises at all. Just pure traction.

You running a full detroit or a true trac?

 

[wahlstrom1]

I'm running a full detroit and I only notice it when I get on and off the throttle and if it comes unlocked for a sec I get a quick bang/clunk and then it's all good again, lol. If it happens while in a parking lot and going slow people will think your truck just spontaneously broke. Other then that all I notice is traction....always traction, haha.

 

[beaujt]

full detriot, i ain't heard nothing good about the true-trac ones. i honestly wouldn't even consider putting in the true-trac just because you might as well just go buy any lunch box locker.

as for the pure traction, i sure hope so! now i'm just waiting till i finish this semester of school to make sure i'll have enough money to buy the locker and gears(close to 900) and i'll let ya'll know how it goes!