Grizzly, Eaton Posi, Spartan, Detroit Truetrac or Aussie????

[Jz97ss]

Grizzly. Mine is so smooth you don't feel it. I thought it wasn't working when I first installed it. It's that smooth

Your running a Grizzly locker in the front ? How are you doing that with the AWD?

 

[itbrokeagain]

Your running a Grizzly locker in the front ? How are you doing that with the AWD?

Rear

 

[Jz97ss]

Rear

He was asking about the front. Sounds like he already has a rear locker.

 

[itbrokeagain]

Guess I missed that. I didn't read it all but his original post said rear

 

[itbrokeagain]

Damn. My bad. I didn't look at dates....... I was responding to the op

 

[Jz97ss]

Bumping this, as i want to lock my front end before i regear but don’t have part time 4x nor enough money to buy a e-locker or air locker.

I have a freiend with the truetrac in his jeep front diff and loves it! But here i read they're not all that. He rock crawls the s*** out of his, i would be more of a trail, small rock and sand kinda guy. I plan on getting part time but may be a long time from now, but i need to gear mine now.

I read on their website that whatever gets more traction gets more power, the opposite of an open diff. If i get a tire off the ground it will get no power and the other tire will get power. Is this wrong?

Anyways, i see it’s kind of a limited slip, not a locker and wont be quite as good, but better than open. What says mud? Waste of money or good enough for me?

Yeah this gentleman bumped the post back up asking about the front. The original poster posted this thread in 2012.

 

[Nay]

Sand, mud and snow. I am usually very remote and alone. I have a winch but there is not always something you can winch to. As i see it, its 400 for something that can help. If I decide i need something later, it’ll cost me a lot more than that. I will at some point end up rock crawling some, it may be my only option on a trail that i am on. I just don’t steer for the rocks.

Do the TruTrac. It’s an unbelievably good winter setup in particular with AWD and auto rear locker. I’ve run TruTrac’s front and rear before I upgraded the rear to a Detroit. They are great as long as both tires have some traction.

Having said that, if the potential issue is getting stuck in remote places, they just don’t offer much at really low speed when one side has basically no traction.

The problem with any torque biasing system is when one end goes to zero (no traction) it’s an open diff at that point for all practical purposes. But you can work the brakes for a poor man’s electronic traction control since braking stops the spinning - it’s just hard to throttle out with the brakes on. Same problem that all modern electronic traction control systems have that use brakes to stop a spinning wheel. At some point it’s just putting on the brakes.

Anyway, it really doesn’t matter since a selectable is understandably too much coin because you can’t run a front auto locker in AWD unless you don’t care about turning. And you do not want a clutch driven limited slip in a front axle either, so the gear driven TruTrac is the choice.

 

[Jgunner]

Yeah, sorry guys. It was a bump. Figured there was already a thread, could use new info. I have a grizzly in the rear, and about to put my gears in my carrier. Just seemed silly to put in gears without dome added traction. Thanks you Nay, I understand its not a replacement for for a locker, but its the next best thing and i can run it in awd.