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I've owned my 80 for almost 7 years, and I bought it with the lift and 35's already on it. It still has stock gears. I don't know any different than driving it with 35's and stock gears. I a Utah local so I've had my 80 in Moab several times and I'll point out that up until this most recent Cruise Moab, all the previous trips were with open diffs. Nobody in their right mind would take a full bodied 80 out to area BFE so I won't even talk about those trails, but other than Pritchett Canyon, my 80 has seen most of the harder (more popular trails) like Moab Rim, Hell's Revenge, Behind the Rocks, Golden Spike etc all without lockers. So just because someone else isn't comfortable tackling some of those trails without lockers does not mean you can't do it in an 80. I am not one to beat on my truck. My 80 is my wife's DD so I can't afford to trash it on the trail so even with open diffs it hasn't required me to be excessively hard on the truck to run those trails.
Lockers will make it a whole lot easier but if Moab is your primary wheeling location, an unlocked 80 with 35's will handle it nicely, and a locked one will make the really hard stuff more like child's play.
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