Diff lockers

Submitted: Friday, Jan 07, 2005 at 00:33
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Firstly thanks for the responses to my previous (and 1st) posting # 18821 regarding "soft" 4wd's on the Border Track. We took your advice and rather than the border track spent some time exploring the tracks in the Big Desert State Forest. All seemed to have a ball. Thanks for the recommendations. No major incidents although the others sometimes needed a couple of attempts at some of the dunes. The tracks appeared not to have been travelled for some time (had to clear fallen trees from the track on numerous occassions) and the duco suffered a bit with scratches ....but we don't buy these vehicles to use on the bitumen do we?

Anyway, as I suggested, once the ice was broken I would soon be posting again. This time I hope to learn from your considerable knowledge and I figure you learn by not being afraid to ask the silly questions ...so here's mine.

My Patrol (GU Ti) has a selectable rear diff lock. Now I know in principal what this technically means (ie both rear wheels turning together) and there are lots of posts about people getting "air lockers" etc but I am interested in how and in what circumstances this option would actually be used. ie is it an option for climbing sand dunes or is it something you would engage to get out of a bog or perhaps when 1 wheel is off the ground? The book says it shouldn't be engaged above 7kpm and a warning will sound above 20kpm.

I have this option available to me and I just thought it would be handy to know how and when to use it.

Thanks in advance for your help

Trevor

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