Rear locker in 2wd?
07-06-2019, 09:12 AM
#23
Senior Member
The LSD for ordinary full time driving and the e-locker enabled for ridgedly coupling both rear wheels for serious off roading like rock climbing.
07-06-2019, 09:41 AM
#24
IMO, the anti-spin by brake apply as you call it is garbage in these trucks.
It kicks in way too late to do any real good.
Tried an anti-spin experiment one time with the system set to normal with no custom settings.
Right rear tire on the road's gravel shoulder and the left rear tire on the pavement.
After around 6 seconds of the right tire spinning and throwing up gravel, the anti-spin did eventually kick in.
Far as the e-locker, it comes in real handy when taking off from a gravely, sandy, snowy, icy, rainy or otherwise slippery stop.
Once the e-locker is enabled, it'll auto disengage somewhere in the low 20 mph area BUT if the control is left enabled, it'll automatically re-engage again at around the low 20 mph area.
While the e-locker is ok under certain conditions a good LSD beats it hands down IMO.
The e-locker's big limitations are its not to be used on dry pavement (when making turns) and only works at low speeds.
With a LSD diff. nothing to engage manually, it works on its own all the time at any speed and more importantly allows full time driving on dry pavement.
It kicks in way too late to do any real good.
Tried an anti-spin experiment one time with the system set to normal with no custom settings.
Right rear tire on the road's gravel shoulder and the left rear tire on the pavement.
After around 6 seconds of the right tire spinning and throwing up gravel, the anti-spin did eventually kick in.
Far as the e-locker, it comes in real handy when taking off from a gravely, sandy, snowy, icy, rainy or otherwise slippery stop.
Once the e-locker is enabled, it'll auto disengage somewhere in the low 20 mph area BUT if the control is left enabled, it'll automatically re-engage again at around the low 20 mph area.
While the e-locker is ok under certain conditions a good LSD beats it hands down IMO.
The e-locker's big limitations are its not to be used on dry pavement (when making turns) and only works at low speeds.
With a LSD diff. nothing to engage manually, it works on its own all the time at any speed and more importantly allows full time driving on dry pavement.
07-06-2019, 11:57 AM
#25
Senior Member
The one wheel spin control sucked on my 2011 and 2014 FX4s. It worked ok when driving straight ahead, but when making a turn trying to get out before oncoming traffic got there I'd get one wheel peel so bad the truck would barely move. I installed a Truetrac limited slip in both of those trucks and never had traction issues at that intersection again.
07-06-2019, 02:16 PM
#26
Old Fart
The one wheel spin control sucked on my 2011 and 2014 FX4s. It worked ok when driving straight ahead, but when making a turn trying to get out before oncoming traffic got there I'd get one wheel peel so bad the truck would barely move. I installed a Truetrac limited slip in both of those trucks and never had traction issues at that intersection again.
In the Winter I have to lock the rear in since it is about a 10% grade up to the highway.
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07-06-2019, 07:49 PM
#27
Senior Member
After reading your post i decided to try that experiment again.
This time however the right rear tire was on a grass shoulder with the left tire on pavement.
Gunned it and the left tire intermitrently gripped within a second and worked as i would expect.
I might have to take back what i said earlier about the brake lock anti-spin being garbage.
However, i'm going to try that original experiment at the same exact place with gravel on the shoulder where the anti-spin didin't kick in for seconds.
Who knows maybe it malfunctioned back then.
To be continued.