for the rear I would save up for a selectable if it is your dd.
if you are afraid of mounting a simple cable then you need to get some thing else to wheel. you will be just sick the first time you lay it on it's side.
if you are going to ask for input, say thank you, don't argue.
take the advice as you will.
I have a power trax locker in the front of my truck. it has held up for 4 or 5 years but now is not locking all the time, and it takes a long time to lock. 3 or 4 turns of the other tire.
I will only use Detroit full replacement lockers from now on. they have been around for 50 years or so.
you could easy do the electric locker in the rear, there are many write UPS on how to wire them. but you have to engage them before you need them. they take a bit of time to lock and if you are stuck they might not lock up right away.
like shifting with out the clutch, they have to be lined up to engage. half engagement means broken parts.
I would not wheel my daily driver. buy a second truck for wheeling. my wife and I both have trucks that are built about the same. extra trucks that is. yeah it seems expensive, but you have to go to work. we can drive one home, take off the needed parts and go get the other one. but we don't have to do it to get to work.
so if you want to wheel, get a toy, a second truck that you are not afraid to mod. that you can play and not worry much.
un less you belong to a really bad group of wheelers.
they will not leave you out there, there will always be some one to tow you home, help you out, get you off the trail.
always pay them back big time, dinner card for them, and make it big enough to have what ever they want. or just pay them.
a tow off the trail, and home I usually figure around 100.00 bucks. any more that is just dinner for them and a second couple. I have never been left out on the trail. but I also reward people for helping me.
you figure a tow truck, if you can find one that will go down the trail. this is way cheap. I bet some of my mess up's the tow truck would have been in the 500.00 range. one would have been in the 1000.00s.
join a group, they helped me because (I have) or would have helped them.
we have 5 plus trail trucks. but we enjoy the 3 plus trails just as much or more. no worries if the truck will do it and drive home.
so you need to look at what kind of wheeling you want to do.
sounds like you only want to do the 2 or 3 plus trails. that is scratches but not much of a chance of serious damage.
I mean come on, you are worried about drilling a hole for a cable locker???????
also I will say, you really need to look at your truck. it is nothing but steal.. if it gets wrecked you can replace it. you can't replace your self.
wheeling, you have to change your thoughts, it is fun, you don't want to break down, you don't want to roll, you do want to push it and have fun.
perspective,,,,, if you do roll lets say.. you tuck in, wreck your truck. oh cost of replacement of the truck, lets just say 10,000.
now you stick your arm out, truck is still wrecked, truck, 10,000.
your arm???? hospital, ex rays, ct, mri, re hab, 100,000.00..
you sound like a real new person to the wheeling world.
just look at what is fun for you. but the truck is disposable..
always keep that in mind.
not really any surprise there.
