auto lockers

A locker NEVER unlocks on dirt. That is why we use them.

Matt and Jeff, give up on Bill as I did a long time ago. He is so hopelessly outdated that he has to base his Detroit Locker experience on his fifty-year old drag racing days from when he was a teenager. He knows so little about today's technology that he thought an Ox-Locker was vacuum-actuated and didn't realize it became a spool when engaged. Bill hasn't offroaded in so many years that he's irrelevant on anything to do with lockers and offroading. Then when Bill gets educated here enough to realize that the Ox locker was actually engaged and operating as a spool which he claimed would have prevented the problem, he can't own up to being wrong.

Same old bullshit Bill is known for.

Matt Macchiarolo wrote:

If the tires can slip on the ground, the locker will never unlock. That is what makes it a locker. Remember, a locker causes stress to build in the differential because the tires can not slip easily on the pavement, this stress must be released before other parts might break. If the tires are on dirt, the stress never builds up because the tires slip easily. You seem to be forgetting that the locker only unlocks when the tires don't slip on the dirt.

Jen used an OxLocker. It acts like a spool that the driver turns on and off. It does not unlock like an auto locker does. This is cited as a weakness because when it does not unlock AND the vehicle is on a surface that does not allow the stress to be released through the tires, then the stress is released through broken parts.

But, you are talking about how a vehicle is thrown about by the rear axle, the question is about the front axle. So, thank you again, Captain BesideThePoint. And, Jen went over for reasons not related to the front locker.

I checked the Mudball web page