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OK I guess I'll get a lockright for the front.... videos

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I'm not sure about being more likely to break junk in a 10 bolt with a locker.

Except for overly large tires, every 10 bolt break I've seen has been because the tire spun madly and stopped. With front and rear lockers, it'd take all four tires spinning madly and then stopping to break like that.

On the other hand, there is a greater chance of putting all that torque through one axleshaft. I think for everything but rockcrawling you're better off with a locker in it. Rockcrawling you can easily put nearly all your torque through one tire and if that tire happens to be turned... SNAP.
 
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I don't have a front one ....YET. There are some warn hub fuses coming my way and that should prevent it. Warn premiums for 1/2 tons will accept these according to warns site. They strip before the u-joint/axles do...supposedly /forums/images/graemlins/thumb.gif

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BAD idea.

Nearly everyone that has managed to break a locker is due to shock loading. If you strip that fuse you've got almost a 50% chance of breaking your front locker.

A buddy of mine used to run a detroit in his D60 front but he busted a U joint up front and it took it out. He has chosen to run a power-loc now.

Lockers and a weak point in the front end do NOT fit together. You'll end up with more problems that way. Just run the locker and change shafts and u joints if they break, which isn't that likely if you run smaller tires (although far from impossible).
 
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Well , then I can turn them around and break even, I know someone else wanted them /forums/images/graemlins/k5.gif
 
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sweet! they are having a horsepower tv marathon today and they installed a lockright/powertrax locker in a wagon /forums/images/graemlins/waytogo.gif
 
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Well , then I can turn them around and break even, I know someone else wanted them /forums/images/graemlins/k5.gif

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What will you do about the broken locker that resulted?
 
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I have a lock right in my font. I am gonna wait to see how long the 30 splines last before I remove the weak link. Some guys break axle after axle and joint after joint with no problems, some kill a locker before any thing else. I am gonna kill my 1310 driveshaft.

Also you can run a mini spool with fuses though, using the new 760 joints will kill a fuse (like should happen)
 
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Except for overly large tires, every 10 bolt break I've seen has been because the tire spun madly and stopped. With front and rear lockers, it'd take all four tires spinning madly and then stopping to break like that.

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Was that 10bolt that you witnessed break have a locker? I'd guess that it did not, being that you saw one tire spinning madly, and then stop. With the locker in a 10 bolt, I'd start questioning its ability to pull itself out with one front tire on 35's. Put that 10 bolt in a situation where it needs to grab with one front tire (short side especially), and then add a little skinny... its going to be ugly.

Regardless, breakage is of increased concern with a locker in a 10b. Thats my only point, with the tiny sidebar regarding increased steering resistance.

Just my .02!

-Dan
 
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I have a lock right in my font. I am gonna wait to see how long the 30 splines last before I remove the weak link. Some guys break axle after axle and joint after joint with no problems, some kill a locker before any thing else. I am gonna kill my 1310 driveshaft.

Also you can run a mini spool with fuses though, using the new 760 joints will kill a fuse (like should happen)

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I had a lock right in my 60 last season when I popped a 30sp on 42s - I was hardly even trying to move, and it just went "pop." BTW, I still run a 1310/1350 converson uvj on the 60 too - and it didn't break. Now I'm running 35sp and flanges... we'll see what blows up next! /forums/images/graemlins/woot.gif

-Dan
 
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Like I said, every time I've seen a ten bolt snap has been because of a tire spinning madly then stopping. Tires tend not to spend madly when they have a locker in them. Overly large meaning anything other than 35" and smaller radial mud tire.

Now, like you're saying, there is more stress associated with a locker. But at the same time there is actually less. The tires never spin madly. So, worst case, is that the tire sees 100% of the torque sent to the front differential. This is where things can go boom. I haven't seen a "small" tired locked 10 bolt break.

Liberal application of the stupid pedal with only one tire getting noteworthy traction. You can see that the tire spun a bunch of times while trying to climb up and a lot of wood got tore off. There isn't a whole lot of traction to be offered by sand and the truck was trying to lift itself up on a square log as tall as the tire is. Repeatedly the truck would start to get up on the log, slip down partially, and then grab traction before hitting the ground and start to pull itself up. The LockRights did a lot of ratcheting that day. There's no f'ing way I'd have gotten up on that log without a locker in the front.

I haven't broken any shafts or universals yet. I did break two pair of spider gears (street abuse) prior to the lockers.
 
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What will you do about the broken locker that resulted?

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I don't have one yet(front locker). I just thought these hub fuses would prevent me from breaking an axle in the future. I do drive nice and easy , I think. If I turn around and sell them , and I say if, it would be for no profit , and they would of NEVER been installed.

Now what if I don't get a locker, would it be advisable then to try the fuses. For most of what I run near my home, the rear locker and low psi have been a big plus. /forums/images/graemlins/k5.gif
 
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Also you can run a mini spool with fuses though, using the new 760 joints will kill a fuse (like should happen)


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Matt, is that the piece I've seen in magazines that look like it goes in like a lockright, except that its solid when center bar and pin is in, i.e locks both side together all the time, but fits open carrier? /forums/images/graemlins/k5.gif
 
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Matt, is that the piece I've seen in magazines that look like it goes in like a lockright, except that its solid when center bar and pin is in, i.e locks both side together all the time, but fits open carrier? /forums/images/graemlins/k5.gif

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I'm not matt, but yes, what you're describing is certainly a mini spool. It's a solid pice that replaces your side and spider gears and the center pin locks everything together.
 
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