Mechanical Locker and SNOW???? (1 Viewer)

[RockDoc]

Thought I'd bump this with my thoughts after encountering black ice on the highway for at least the third time in the past few months.

I put an Aussie in the back this summer, love it offroad, don't mind it at all on dry roads, love it in the snow, but I'm really starting to hate it on icy highways. The first warning you get of slick conditions is often the rear breaking loose while maintaining speed or lightly braking. Now the highway has been in really nasty shape each time, but it's the way you find out that is consistently not cool compared to with an open diff. If I'm still highway driving this truck next winter, I think I'll pull it out for the season. We'll see, maybe I'll do it yet this year.

So it's great for wet sloppy snow if that's what you get, but sucks donkey balls if you get drift-glazed black ice or freezing rain.

 

[Spook50]

Thought I'd bump this with my thoughts after encountering black ice on the highway for at least the third time in the past few months.

I put an Aussie in the back this summer, love it offroad, don't mind it at all on dry roads, love it in the snow, but I'm really starting to hate it on icy highways. The first warning you get of slick conditions is often the rear breaking loose while maintaining speed or lightly braking. Now the highway has been in really nasty shape each time, but it's the way you find out that is consistently not cool compared to with an open diff. If I'm still highway driving this truck next winter, I think I'll pull it out for the season. We'll see, maybe I'll do it yet this year.

So it's great for wet sloppy snow if that's what you get, but sucks donkey balls if you get drift-glazed black ice or freezing rain.

I wonder if having Auburn LSDs would be better in icy conditions than a locker (whether auto or manual).

 

[GLTHFJ60]

Thought I'd bump this with my thoughts after encountering black ice on the highway for at least the third time in the past few months.

I put an Aussie in the back this summer, love it offroad, don't mind it at all on dry roads, love it in the snow, but I'm really starting to hate it on icy highways. The first warning you get of slick conditions is often the rear breaking loose while maintaining speed or lightly braking. Now the highway has been in really nasty shape each time, but it's the way you find out that is consistently not cool compared to with an open diff. If I'm still highway driving this truck next winter, I think I'll pull it out for the season. We'll see, maybe I'll do it yet this year.

So it's great for wet sloppy snow if that's what you get, but sucks donkey balls if you get drift-glazed black ice or freezing rain.

Good info. I have an autolocker up front and I know that I'll get tons of understeer if I use it, so I'm gonna stay 2wd for as long as possible. I would really love to get some 80 diffs converted to cable actuation