Complete Diff Locker options thread

[rick130]

For the Sals you can add the TJM Pro-Locker, or at least they list it as available now.

Also the Kaiser locker from Brazil is an auto locker that is made to fit the Sals, but you'd have to privately import one.

How It Works - KAISER - Differential Locker

It should be much, much smoother than a NoSpin/Detroit, it looks very similar to the Weissmann locker that was the darling of the Indycar/F1/Prototype Sports Car scene through the seventies and eighties until active hydraulic diffs became available.

[Shiftit]

Hi all,
So far I have priced ARB air lockers in cairns ARB $1250.00 ea. in box with all actuators,pipe,clips etc.(no discount for cash)

I,ve rang Ashcroft UK, the Ashcroft air locker for 91 classic vogue ...nay.....not a straight swap! They only do it with 24 spline centre, meaning half shafts need to be upgraded at the same time. Ie 24 spline centre to 23 spline cv. Then they said if your gonna do that you might as well do ya ya ya ...so in the end I asked them to do a price for total upgrade, front and rear.

Air lockers 24 spline. X2
Half shafts,24-23 spline, X2 pairs
Cv's, X2
Flanges, X4
Stub axles, X4
Including freight 2 weeks =$3400.

Then there's the import tax & duty

any way after a few enquieries it turns out to be about 10% GST + customs fee ? $50 ish( and that's a guess baced on government website)

They'll also do ARB air lockers too wich are a straight swap $860.00 inc del (bear in mind there will also be an extra currency exchange handling fee on top of this price but untill you order I don't know how much it is?

Any hoo guess what...... I just bought the bloody things in ARB cairns talk about making work for myself.


Hope this helps some one else like me last week lol

[Shiftit]

Oh and buy the way "maxi drive" have changed there name to "hy tough" look on e bay.

[rick130]

Oh and buy the way "maxi drive" have changed there name to "hy tough" look on e bay.

Not Quite.

Hy Tough axles is Barry who used to work for Mal Storey/Maxi-Drive making his axles. (i don't know Barry but a few fella's on here such as uninformed know him)

MR Automotive bought the rights to most of the rest of the Maxi Drive range, including the lockers and still make/market the products as Maxi-Drive.

[Big Dog]

Hi All
Greg (Grover69) at outcast is a Rovacraft dealer and can do better deal than the others
supply only or supply and fit
PM or go to the web

[rick130]

Just an update.

I dropped into TJM when in Tamworth last weekend and enquired whether the Pro-Locker ( to suit a SALS) was really available or just a catalogue listing.

The boys got back to me during the week and yes, TJM have stock available, sitting on the shelf, ready to ship, so if someone wants a selectable locker for their Sals and doesn't want an ARB and knows how good the Jack Mcnamara locker is, there is an alternative (@ $1350.00)

[DiscoMick]

Very happy with the Detroit auto locker in the rear of the D1. Relatively cheap (about half the cost of an airlocker), the BIL (a mechanic) and I were able to fit ourselves, and its nil maintenance, except for oil changes. When the cash is available I'll be putting a True Trac in the front, as it doesn't affect the steering.

[Spadge07]

As 130Man mentioned first, Ashcroft do a ARB air locker equivalent (perhaps?) which LRA stock. My brother in law just got a pair chucked in my sister's D2 plus air supplied by a standard ARB compressor. He reckons they worked a treat on his New Years trip from Kosciuszko back to Licola or thereabouts. Not a bad option by the sound of it and surprise, surprise are cheaper than an ARB air locker.

[Jeff]

As 130Man mentioned first, Ashcroft do a ARB air locker equivalent (perhaps?) which LRA stock. My brother in law just got a pair chucked in my sister's D2 plus air supplied by a standard ARB compressor. He reckons they worked a treat on his New Years trip from Kosciuszko back to Licola or thereabouts. Not a bad option by the sound of it and surprise, surprise are cheaper than an ARB air locker.

I think Ashcroft sell the ARB locker, not a copy, just it is cheaper than buying one here, just as it is cheaper to buy ARB lockers in the US.

Jeff

[mistajoel]

For the Sals you can add the TJM Pro-Locker, or at least they list it as available now.

Also the Kaiser locker from Brazil is an auto locker that is made to fit the Sals, but you'd have to privately import one.

How It Works - KAISER - Differential Locker

It should be much, much smoother than a NoSpin/Detroit, it looks very similar to the Weissmann locker that was the darling of the Indycar/F1/Prototype Sports Car scene through the seventies and eighties until active hydraulic diffs became available.

Kaiser lockers! Steer well clear...

They sound good on paper, its a good theory. But a mate of mine has them in his defender... they are horrible! Granted they work amazingly well in the bush, but on road they are terrible, have to drive completely different, and on the highway they are just lethal

Maybe they'd be better in an auto, but corners, parking, roundabouts, taking the power off while moving make them jerk and grab something shocking in a manual, at 100kmh if you lift off at all, they reverse drive inside themselves and grab onto one wheel before the other and send you off sideways...

The only lockers i could recommend are ones that can disengage completely and work as a standard diff on road,,.

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