ordered parts! :)

[bigcountry]

locker in the rear is good. locker in the front bad. but like said above rear tires will wear a bit more than normal but hey if you want a locker bad enough its a small price to pay for good traction like i said though you will have to change your drive style a bit and get used to driving with one and like said they are very noisey alot of clanking and banging when they unlock and lock a good ls in the front or a selectable locker for the front would be good. a locker for the front would still be bad even with manual hubs even though no power is going to the front and the hubs are unlocked the locker wont need power it will still be locked cause the tires are still moving and it would still able to unlock and throw the front end around and could cause you to have an accident. now some people say to lock on hub and leave the other unlocked this is very bad it can wear out the hub you have locked and if you forget and you put it in 4hi it could messin up the front end of your truck

 

[88gt]

this thread ought o be sticky'd someplace. a lot of great information about lockers!

 

[bigcountry]

now i know for a fact that toyota puts elockers in their trucks and i know you can modify your axle for the elocker i know cause i did for a buddy in his 1996 tacoma the only thing i had to do was cut a piece if the diff out and weld in a bigger piece and install the elocker other than that it is pretty straight forward and toyoa used i know 8axle in their truck before 95 1/2 and if your rear axle is an 8.8 i dont see why it wouldnt work im not to firmilar with the front axles on the ranger but i dont see why it wouldnt work. and you can find the elocker after 95 1/2 years and up im thinking close to the 2000s models and they are pretty cheap from any local scrap yard my buddy found his if im not mistaken for about 150 bucks not to bad when and if you get one check the solenoid to make sure it works properly

 

[Dweano]

locker in the rear is good. locker in the front bad. but like said above rear tires will wear a bit more than normal but hey if you want a locker bad enough its a small price to pay for good traction like i said though you will have to change your drive style a bit and get used to driving with one and like said they are very noisey alot of clanking and banging when they unlock and lock a good ls in the front or a selectable locker for the front would be good. a locker for the front would still be bad even with manual hubs even though no power is going to the front and the hubs are unlocked the locker wont need power it will still be locked cause the tires are still moving and it would still able to unlock and throw the front end around and could cause you to have an accident. now some people say to lock on hub and leave the other unlocked this is very bad it can wear out the hub you have locked and if you forget and you put it in 4hi it could messin up the front end of your truck

Damnit...I should've been asking these questions BEFORE I bought a D35 with gears and locker already installed. W/e I guess. 99.9% of the time I'm in 4x4 im in a field/mud patch/snowy area/ditch/etc where its wide open. I never put it in 4x4 when im driving on the road with other vehicles. I'm hoping i'll be good...

 

[bigcountry]

just be careful when you get on the road me and one of my friends didnt know about what a locker would do in his front axle of his late 70s model bronco and we were muddin and we plowed into a tree cause he couldnt turn the wheel enough cause of the locker yea that was the last day that bronco saw the trails or the street. keep in mind im not tryin to tell you what to do with your truck just tryin to keep everyone safe and informed. what kind of locker does the D35 have in it?

 

[Dweano]

keep in mind im not tryin to tell you what to do with your truck just tryin to keep everyone safe and informed. what kind of locker does the D35 have in it?

Oh no man I totally get it, I'd like to thank you cuz im such a noob when it comes to diff's and whats in em and such. And my d35 has a lockright i believe in it. And smashing into a tree is something I can see myself doing unfortunately haha

 

[Sasquatch_Ryda]

now i know for a fact that toyota puts elockers in their trucks and i know you can modify your axle for the elocker i know cause i did for a buddy in his 1996 tacoma the only thing i had to do was cut a piece if the diff out and weld in a bigger piece and install the elocker other than that it is pretty straight forward and toyoa used i know 8axle in their truck before 95 1/2 and if your rear axle is an 8.8 i dont see why it wouldnt work im not to firmilar with the front axles on the ranger but i dont see why it wouldnt work. and you can find the elocker after 95 1/2 years and up im thinking close to the 2000s models and they are pretty cheap from any local scrap yard my buddy found his if im not mistaken for about 150 bucks not to bad when and if you get one check the solenoid to make sure it works properly

Not quite sure what you are getting at as that is one big run on sentance. If you're saying you can put an e locker from a toyota into a ranger, its not possible at all....

 

[bigcountry]

like i said i wasnt sure if you could. and yea im a highschool drop out and typing was never my strong point hahahaha. but yea just out of curisoity why cant you like i said i know nothing about ranger front diffs

 

[Sasquatch_Ryda]

Toyota differential are completely different. Different size ring gear/different axle spline count. Lockers are differential specific.

 

[Great_Big_Abyss]

Would it be possible to take the axle out of a Tacoma and replace the Ford rear axle with it? Although I don't know why somebody would want to do that....

 

[Sasquatch_Ryda]

Completly possible. Wrong bolt pattern tho, they are 6 stud.

 

[bigcountry]

not only wrong bolt pattern but the axles are different widths so your tries would either stick out to far or not far enough if you were to drop in an 85 yota front axle with a tacoma axle it would work but even still after that you would still need to put spacers on the front tires just for it to look normal and all of that would be just way to much hasle cause then you would more than likely need a new front and rear driveshafts. and on top of all that it you might as well get another truck after all the time and money you would have to drop in just to do all of that it wouldnt be worth it all you might as well go and get a yota.

 

[Great_Big_Abyss]

Well, I'm thinking that it would be nice to put the rear axle from a newer Tacoma with an e-locker under my Ranger. Really, I'd only be modifying the U-Joint, right? I might need to get new wheels with different offsets, but that would be it! I bet I could find one at a junkyard for not so much money.

 

[bigcountry]

yea pretty much it would work you might be able to pickup a good axle with elocker for about 300 to 500 depends on where you are and how well the axle is and about what comes on it like brakes and lines and so on and so forth

 

[beaujt]

not only wrong bolt pattern but the axles are different widths so your tries would either stick out to far or not far enough if you were to drop in an 85 yota front axle with a tacoma axle it would work but even still after that you would still need to put spacers on the front tires just for it to look normal and all of that would be just way to much hasle cause then you would more than likely need a new front and rear driveshafts. and on top of all that it you might as well get another truck after all the time and money you would have to drop in just to do all of that it wouldnt be worth it all you might as well go and get a yota.

yota axles are passenger side drop... not drivers side drop problem number 1.