Thread: opinions on detroit locker

Unbreakable and no nonsense locker, but when you say 'on the way out', do you mean crownwheel and pinion? or worn crosspins etc. The original crownwheel and pinion is retained, but the rest of the hemisphere is binned when you fit the Detroit.
I'm soon fitting one to the rear of mine.
JC

Originally Posted by justinc

Unbreakable and no nonsense locker, but when you say 'on the way out', do you mean crownwheel and pinion? or worn crosspins etc. The original crownwheel and pinion is retained, but the rest of the hemisphere is binned when you fit the Detroit.
I'm soon fitting one to the rear of mine.
JC

Yours for salisbury, is an insert, that fits in the original hemisphere
PM me your address so I can get it over to you

I have never had a Detroit Locker or "No-Spin" in a Land Rover but have had them in a HT Monaro GTS350 with a mid 60's big Oldsmobile diff and 370 rear wheel horsepower, a 1970 Dodge Challenger with Hemi 426 and 600+ horsepower, and three way No-Spins in Rockwell SSHD's in a prime mover. Totally reliable, performance excellent, only complaint is that in a passenger car you can hear the clatter of the dog clutches when turning tight low speed corners.

Mark2 on this forum has one and he did a topic on it. I really like his vehicle, handles well both on road and for a very limited jaunt through the grass.

I have one in my old Land Rover and personally I think they are great they are not perfect, on slippery side slopes they can be a bit odd but overall they are worth buying in my view beware they also introduce more backlash into the drive train.
I would use uprated axles with it as they are hard on axles ocassionally you can get an almighty bang and think you have broken something but its just a detroit being a detroit.
I would do it again as the performance increase outweighs any negatives

I don't think they make any allmighty cracks anymore as they have up graded them i think
There are plenty of people on here running them as there was a bolk order on them last year.

TIM.

I've got one in my D1. Sometimes clunks on gravel driveway when in tight turn but nothing major. Quiet on road and hardly noticeable as far as handling goes. Excellent off road and value for money. Easy to install even for a novice like me. But an axle upgrade is highly recommended as with any locker.

Pete

i may go for a s/h disco diff and just change it all over for now as the locker will end up costing me about 800 more to do