front lokka

Try the archives theres about a squillion threads on lockers.

I don't have a lokka in my rear diff but I do have a Lock Rite in the front off my part time 80 series and I reckon its the best thing since sliced bread. I reccommend them. Just make sure when you fit it that the tollerances stated in the fitting manual are adheared to. I have an air locker in the rear and in my opion the front made a greater difference.

much smoother in the front than rearso many places, so little time !!!

Thanks for the info Boys . I am so wrapped in the rear thats its not funny. It does make a slight noise when making a sharp turn , but after 3 days of driving I have to listen out fot it . Thanks to the boys at 4x4 sysyems I made an exelent choise. Not thanks toTony & Allen from the forum I am confident I will be as happy with the front lokka with a part time kit also . Do you get better economy with your part time 80 series??

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

In my 94 80 series I am now getting around 300 kms on 90 litres of gas and 450 kms in 90 litres of the wet stuff . does anyone have some figures on part time 80 series 4.5 litre???

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.