Thread: Can I still get a Maxi Drive locker for a Salisbury?

Hey Garry, what ratio diffs are you running? I was just looking at the Rover Track site:
Standard Dana 60 gear ratios include 3.55:1, 3.73:1, 4.10:1, 4.56:1, 4.88:1, 5.29:1 and lower!
Dana Gears cost $250 per set
Expensive standard Rover ratios are limited to 3.54:1, 4.10:1, 4.75:1
Rover gears are very expensive new so we try to find them used.
Used prices around $300 per set.
I am very interested in going this way with my '68 2A 109, but I have a 3.54:1 Sals and 3.54:1 Rover front, would the slight difference of 3.54-3.55:1 be close enough? Given that it is only in 4wd for off road and any potential 'wind up' should be lost in loose sand/dirt.
What do you think?
Thanks

Originally Posted by garrycol

Frenchie,

I bought mine from Keith from Rovertracks in Colorado in the USA. I think Keith is a poster on AULRO. He delivered within 10 days of receiving my order. I put it in myself using some instructed provided by 101 Ron. Is as simple as pull the axles, pull out diff center, pull out diff sun gears, put in locker centre and put back in (the last is a little fiddly but not hard). As long as you use the bits you pulled out the diff does not have to re-set up with backlashes, and dial gauges as the crown wheel is not removed and everything goes back as it was.

The biggest pain I find is now having to lift both back wheels off the ground to grease the unis on the rear driveshaft rather than just jacking one.

Garry

Originally Posted by ScottW

Is the detroit soft locker a mechanical LSD? Most of these need a little load to engage, ie if one wheel is in the air, there is no resistence and it won't engage and you are left with a single spinner. This is easily fixed however by lightly applying the brakes to provide light resistence to the airborn wheel

Scott

The Detroit Locker otherwise called Detroit Soft Locker should actually be called an unlocking diff centre. The detroit is locked on and when the differential forces are such it unlocks one side allowing it to rotate at a different rate. It doesn't need any load to engage, it IS engaged.

They can have problems in sand and slippery roads when cornering at speed. Mostly people who have them swear by them.

They usually have a Detroit soft locker in the rear and a True-trak or air locker in the front.

Diana