getting some parts installed at Trollhole's before OTMT. Hellllooo rear locker
What did you do with your truck this week? (3 Viewers)
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ClemsonCruiser
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aussie locker
Got one in my 62...you will love the difference
ClemsonCruiser
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I will add I recently installed one of the new spartan lockers in my 45LPB, they have what I guess you would call it "revolutionary" design that really simplifies the installation process. Took me maybe a 1/3 the time other lunch lockers have. It performed flawlessly on my colorado trip so I'd recommend it to anyone in the market
Which end do y'all have the lockers installed into?
I have a lock right in he front of my 62 and enjoy what it does, but am concerned it might break my birfields. I did not install it in the read axle of my then daily driver because I did not want the jarring CLANG when it unloaded in a turn as I had experienced in a 40...
If y'all have put them in the rear let me know if they go bang with he longer wheelbase trucks...
I have a lock right in he front of my 62 and enjoy what it does, but am concerned it might break my birfields. I did not install it in the read axle of my then daily driver because I did not want the jarring CLANG when it unloaded in a turn as I had experienced in a 40...
If y'all have put them in the rear let me know if they go bang with he longer wheelbase trucks...
ClemsonCruiser
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Mine is in the rear of the LPB and I hardly notice it. My dad's LV has a powertrax in the rear and it is ubber smooth and quiet I had the same in the rear of my old FJ62 and you couldn't tell it was there.
jfz80
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The Aussies are pretty darn easy install on semi float axles (80s at least) and as far as the noise/engagement they are pretty darn hard to even notice. I've heard the ratcheting pulling into parking spaces. Otherwise only time I've heard them engage is turning uphill onto a side street that lightens the inside rear and then its engaged a few times. Otherwise a stealth operator
At least in the 80s
Well it's taken ALL week but were getting somewhere now ....
I figure another week and ill have solved most the odd little surprises. Or at least the crucial ones
At least in the 80s
Well it's taken ALL week but were getting somewhere now ....
I figure another week and ill have solved most the odd little surprises. Or at least the crucial ones
ClemsonCruiser
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Nice Jason, I haven't seen previously why are you swapping? More POWA 
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jfz80
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Actually less oil consumption and more confidence for the amount of miles it's been seeing lately. That and the red firewall bugged me from day one. Ok so I added a cam while I was in there but nothing to crazy. Stock stuff pretty much but oh so shiny and clean ..... For now
Now I just hope not to regret swapping FI for the carb, though in my case (tbi) not worlds apart
Now I just hope not to regret swapping FI for the carb, though in my case (tbi) not worlds apart
Jason, you will love the tbi...
I don"t know how much easier it can get to install an aussie (rear), the only PITA is the c clips. The rest is pretty simple. (Although the lift helps, too)
I hear mine ratcheting anytime I am on a slow turn, but not a clang, just tock, tock, tock (tock, tock, tock, etc.) I hardly ever hear the one in the jeep, the inside rear tire just spins.
Hopefully the auburn LSD will be in the front of the 62 before Logan's run.
I don"t know how much easier it can get to install an aussie (rear), the only PITA is the c clips. The rest is pretty simple. (Although the lift helps, too)
I hear mine ratcheting anytime I am on a slow turn, but not a clang, just tock, tock, tock (tock, tock, tock, etc.) I hardly ever hear the one in the jeep, the inside rear tire just spins.
Hopefully the auburn LSD will be in the front of the 62 before Logan's run.
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Thats good to know, maybe I will pull mine out of the front of the 62 and install it in the rear, and install an arb in the front while I have it open.
jfz80
Cruisin’
Tie rods and drag links. Hope it steers a little better.
Southeast Overland
Get lost! Go explore!
New power steering pump and idler bearings in the FJC after OTMT.
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I did my own alignment after studying it last night. My steering wheel was about 45* to the right when traveling "straight" down the road. So I parked it with the steering wheel straight up and looked at my wheels. The passenger side was toed properly, but the driver side was way out. Pulled out a couple wrenches and pulled the toe back in. Drives much better. I must have pulled that driver tire way out when I was trying to climb the wall on trail 23.
ClemsonCruiser
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Sounds like you boys were hammering your stuff, sad I wasn't there for the show 
Rick, you can get it close like that, but with an IFS, I would have it checked on a machine.
I put the solid axle on jack stands with a 4 ft. level on each tire and measure front and back...I've been doing this for years, but on an IFS, the toe , camber, and prob. caster too will change when the tires are lifted.
I put the solid axle on jack stands with a 4 ft. level on each tire and measure front and back...I've been doing this for years, but on an IFS, the toe , camber, and prob. caster too will change when the tires are lifted.
A little late to the party, but I've had an aussie in the rear of my 62 for the last 6 months and i haven't heard any loud BANGs from it. Only the light clicking it makes while turning.
I have a friend with a part-timed 80 and he put an aussie up front and it likes to go BANG alot he says.
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For certain. It still feels a little dodgy, but my dash isn't lit up like it was before and the steering wheel is straight.
I'm planning another wheeling trip for myself over Labor Day weekend and I'm just trying not to throw $80 away between now and then. I'll get a true alignment after Labor Day.
