front lokka
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Eric
I just fitted a lokka to the rear of my 80 series , and I was wondering if anyone has fit a lokka and part time system to there 80 series . is it as smooth in the front as it is in the rear??
Reply By: mrdesmo - Wednesday, Jul 30, 2003 at 07:48
Wednesday, Jul 30, 2003 at 07:48
Hi Eric
This topic is no doubt down to personal prefernce...but heres my two bob... I had a lockrite in the front of my old Hilux, climbed anything (almost) and went jaust about anywhere (almost again!!!).
My opinion is by putting this sort of lokka in the front, when you disengage your hubs, the lokka is not used at all, hence less wear, less tyre wearon the blacktop as with what you'd get with it in the rear cause don't forget, while your tail shaft is turning your diff, the locker will lock, the harder it turns, the harder it locks.
Then again with the lokka in the front, it gets harder to steer, a real bugger as the 'lux didn't have power steering!! The only way around some tight corners in 4WD was to put foot on the clutch and roll to unload it .
Just a thought...
Cheers
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Reply By: lc_80 - Wednesday, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:24
Wednesday, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:24
Eric,
I guess by the response your not happy with your fuel consumption!
You should be able to get better than 4.5km/l (and more like 4.8km/l) on LPG on highway (manual - autos should do better) at legal speed. Thats on a car with 250K km on it. A younger car should be able to do better.
The figures mentioned seem to be a bit on the low compared with
mine. 3.33Km/l (300/90) on LPG would be close to break even on running cost (excluding recovery of installation). The lowest I have recorded is 3.7Km/l under extreme towing conditions (3.5t++ off road)
There are basically only two things I would put it down too (other than similar exrteme non representitive conditions above), either driving style or state of tune of the engine.
Perhaps I have a small advantage of Unichip and part-time - thats about 7%-8% based on my records.
Hope that has clarified matters for you.
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