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So you want a limited slip / locker in your Ranger in 2026?


and thats where you should have left it.

You posted your experience, great. They posted theirs, equally great.

Fair enough I guess.

I really find it irritating though when it doesn't seem like folks really read or try understand what's already posted.

I guess i know what I'll get around here and will just keep it to myself from now on.
 
Ok, time for people to cool their jets please. Debate all you want but things are starting to get heated.
Copy, that's mostly what I was intending to say as well, but probably could have chosen better words.

Fair enough I guess.

I really find it irritating though when it doesn't seem like folks really read or try understand what's already posted.

I guess i know what I'll get around here and will just keep it to myself from now on.
If that's how you choose to look at it, your choice.

I can tell you that the long timers around here feel the same way you do about people popping up questions and seemingly doing no reading or research about what is already posted. They are adding to what you posted hoping to provide more info and choices to people who might take a minute to actually search, not trying to dismiss what you contributed.

They also get frustrated about people popping up insisting that there is only one way to skin a cat, when they know from experience that there are several. (That's the way what I responded to read.) They welcome the new guy sharing his way, but know that the best way to do it may differ from one situation to the next.

Though if they're anything like this long timer, they're probably thinking more about why anyone would want to skin a cat and the origin of that phrase, than which way to go about getting an LS/locker. 🤔😄
 
Copy, that's mostly what I was intending to say as well, but probably could have chosen better words.


If that's how you choose to look at it, your choice.

I can tell you that the long timers around here feel the same way you do about people popping up questions and seemingly doing no reading or research about what is already posted. They are adding to what you posted hoping to provide more info and choices to people who might take a minute to actually search, not trying to dismiss what you contributed.

They also get frustrated about people popping up insisting that there is only one way to skin a cat, when they know from experience that there are several. (That's the way what I responded to read.) They welcome the new guy sharing his way, but know that the best way to do it may differ from one situation to the next.

Though if they're anything like this long timer, they're probably thinking more about why anyone would want to skin a cat and the origin of that phrase, than which way to go about getting an LS/locker. 🤔😄
The cat ain't happy...
 
Yes sir. If I didn't off road, all I would want is a limited slip.
A locker might be better off road. I would not know enough to argue the point, but Limited Slip works pretty good too, most certainly better than that "one wheel peel."
 
My "offroad vehicle" is the only one in the fleet that doesn't have a locker lol.

Just a clutch Track-Lock in a Explorer axle. It can be a handful in 2wd on slick roads but offroad it is seemless and does what it is told to do without complaint.

It is the one that drags the other two out when they get stuck in snow...

I have been rather underwhelmed with the lockers in the other two after decades of hearing praises online.

Bronco does use its a lot because it can't keep tires on the ground and teeter-totters a lot. If the F-150 can't do it open the odds of it doing it with the rear locked is not great either.
 
Appreciate the write up. I have done lots of research on axle swaps. I have a 7.5 open diff 3.45 gear. I had planned to do the explorer route because ive already done an axle flip, so less welding from my end. But finding a rear axle in good condition with LSD has been damn near impossible. So this helps
 
Appreciate the write up. I have done lots of research on axle swaps. I have a 7.5 open diff 3.45 gear. I had planned to do the explorer route because ive already done an axle flip, so less welding from my end. But finding a rear axle in good condition with LSD has been damn near impossible. So this helps

I snagged mine back in '06 before the hype.

$100 with matching gearing and the guy let me have the springs too.

I've been trying to snag one now for my son's '91... its a very different experience.
 
I snagged mine back in '06 before the hype.

$100 with matching gearing and the guy let me have the springs too.

I've been trying to snag one now for my son's '91... its a very different experience.


I know its crazy how much prices have jumped. Lucky for me im 2WD, so dont need to match gearing.
 

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