Rear Air Locker - are they worth having over standard LSD?

[Morton]

I have a lockrite in the front of my Maverick & busted a CV axle a couple of weeks ago but I love it, it gets the front over where as before it just wouldnt climb some tricky twisty bits, I am now chasing one for my GU for the front

[89gqpatrol4x4]

I love my lockers but was talked into both by toyota drivers (as we all know they have terrible lsd's) Didn't do enough research and got carried away with the hype. Being manual lockers does give me the option which I always choose to try the track first without using them, then switch one on at a time. However i wish I had just got the front and put that money to a lift or turbo etc.

[Squalo]

I am saving to do the front but am aware of many saying how they love it but it does make them lazy in there driving style as they expect the locker to do the hard work and not the nut behind the wheel...

Only if you turn it on! With a manually activated front locker off, the vehicle drives exactly the same as it did with the open front diff. So you can still have a good go and actually use the grey matter to help you get through, and then if it's still not enough, CLICK

Or, if you are actually feeling lazy, just turn it on, drive through, turn it off... after a long day of playing in the tracks I am often tired enough to do this rather than go for the challenge.

But as Drewboyaus and a few others have commented, the real gift of a locker (or two) is the ability to do everything at a slower pace - good for the vehicle, good for the track.

Anyway, to answer the question - no need for a rear locker in a Patrol unless you are already struggling for traction with a front locker.

[fracster]

Sorry for the question....again....But do GU/GR Patrols not come equipped with rear diff locks?

Mine has a diff lock switch on it,that I assumed, operated a rear diff lock, am I wrong in that thought?

Sorry just noticed the 93 year in the original post.

[threedogs]

throw a Pro locker in the front . the rear LSD is one of the best in the business

[Drewboyaus]

Fracster,
My best guess is that switch is for the centre diff-lock.
I'm not a GU driver mind, so don't trust me...:-)


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[macca86]

Fracster,
My best guess is that switch is for the centre diff-lock.
I'm not a GU driver mind, so don't trust me...:-)


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no centre diff on any patrol. Some gq ti and gu and all gu8 come with a rear diff lock got to do with abs ebd and other letters that mean computer stuff as the won't work with an led as it applied brakes to each wheel individually it would lock the other wheel or something

[Jacket_1985]

Iv had just fronts in a few cars and both in a few, -for what i do i keep going back to F&R in my bashers. iv had about a dozen ARB airlockers. and currently have 3.

[happygu]

Sorry for the question....again....But do GU/GR Patrols not come equipped with rear diff locks?

Mine has a diff lock switch on it,that I assumed, operated a rear diff lock, am I wrong in that thought?

Sorry just noticed the 93 year in the original post.

We are not as lucky as some of the Nissan Patrol owners from the Northern Hemisphere. We had Diff Locks as standard options for Diesels back in 1988, and now in late 2012, and there were somePetrol top of the range models around 1999 - 2001.... that was it for us.

Any Diff Locks needed to be aftermarket for the rest of us.

[happygu]

Iv had just fronts in a few cars and both in a few, -for what i do i keep going back to F&R in my bashers. iv had about a dozen ARB airlockers. and currently have 3.

Yeah, but you actually use them.......