Thread: 4WD Action gets with the program

Originally Posted by CheekyD1

OK so I am board, its wet, I have spent all my money on Jeep bits, full floating rear D44 axles from our mate Barry at Hi-Tough


Their you go now everybody has something to do Sunday, think up way to shoot me down.

May your Rover be with you.

mmmm how to shoot you down?

I can't comment on the detroit as I've never used/owned one. I suppose the closest thing I've had would be the viscus coupling that came standard in my rangie. I found it great in the short time it was fitted. It was similar in principle to what you're discussing. Auto CDL vs Manual CDL - although I don't think I would swap back from the LT230, ie manual CDL. Both have advantages and disadvantages.

Back to shooting you down.

First sentence - are you board or bored. I would suggest that you are actually bored and not board.

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"Their you go now everybody has something to do Sunday"

Also use there with the verb BE (is, am, are, was, were) to indicate the existence of something, or to mention something for the first time

Use their to indicate possession. It is a possessive adjective and indicates that a particular noun belongs to them


OK not much of a shoot down, but had to at least show something for my years at uni

Originally Posted by GuyG

OK not much of a shoot down, but had to at least show something for my years at uni

You had to go to Uni to learned that? I vaguely remember them trying to teach similar in school, their, there, which witch, etc

Meh, I failed year 10, school wasn't for me

I new that!

Originally Posted by rovercare

You had to go to Uni to learned that? I vaguely remember them trying to teach similar in school, their, there, which witch, etc

Meh, I failed year 10, school wasn't for me

Yes I learnt it at school but it was also included in some of my subjects at Uni.

A manual Locker is a gross device, its all or nothing over a relatively large period of time.
The light has gone off on the ARB switch but the locker can still be engaged for much longer, common problem to all air-leakers.
(not to mention the times it refuses to engage or worse disengage )

A Detroit by comparison can be in and out several times a second. As required.

How do you really know When to have the locker in or out?
Mr Detroit knows; he is at the axle for you, ready to allow disconnection if no slippage is happening or immediately full on locked if an axle begins to slip.

This is really useful on a winding, slippery track, like Dingo’s at Levuka. When you get to the turn Mr Detroit disengages and allows the turn to happen like it’s not locked; then when you boot it for the rest of the hill, full traction is automatically and immediately there for you.

The only issue I have with the method of testing to destruction that 4WD Action did. Is that it did not test the Lockers where they live, in a diff housing.
Most of the destructive failures I have experienced with Air-Leakers is that they either move or spin in the housing, munching up the air line.
I would have loved to see the test rig twisting the axle flange with a diff centre, containing the locker, fixed at the other end. This is the way the forces work in the truck.

First up i'll say that I am more than happy with my Maxi's and they have never let me down. To be honest I cannot think of a time when having the rear diff locked has got me in trouble turning or manouvering etc.

I did have a Detroit in the rear of my old 2 door many years ago but is was an old Detroit, in or out. Traversing slippery side slopes was utter madness. Never again.

To be fair I would like to try these new Detroits as they have come along way and are proporsional in the way they share the drive (I think this is correct). If its anything like the True Trac in the rear of my Ssanyong work ute its not bad.

Justin