I want a "partial locker" one I can turn on and off. This is not my daly
driver but I tend to drive it a lot on the pavement, and in the snow, so I
would not lock it before I got a full time locker.

I see my options:
ARB
OX
new to me, Detroit electric

heard bad things about OX diff covers, and worried about parts and service
after there recent Bankruptcy

ARB seems to be the best, but the most costly, especially after you put an air
tank and compressor (but I need OBA any way)


My question:
what's your take on the Detroit Electric? Good, Bad, Ugly? Sounds the same as
what come in the Rubi?



Money doses not grow on trees, but I will have this a while, and only want to
do it once.

83 CJ 8, a work in progress
http://hometown.aol.com/ebmvi/MyTJindex.html
Take out the "XXX" to e-mail me

 

For the time being, I would eliminate the Ox-Locker due to financial
problems with the manufacturer.

First reports on the Detroit Electrac are very good. It has the nice
advantage that when it's not locked up, it's the venerable bulletproof
Detroit Truetrac limited slip differential. The only drawback at this time
for the Electrac is that the solenoid assembly is pretty exposed to trail
damage. They are apparently working on a new cover design to eliminate that
shortcoming.

ARB is of course excellent and has a great reputation but it's more
expensive than the Electrac when you sum up all of the extra charges you'd
pay to get it running... like the compressor and the extra skilled labor
needed to install the ARB properly.

Jerry
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Jerry Bransford
KC6TAY, PP-ASEL
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"Evan" <ebmvi@aol.comxxx> wrote in message
news:20030705174632.23653.00000086@mb-m23.aol.com...
> I want a "partial locker" one I can turn on and off. This is not my daly
> driver but I tend to drive it a lot on the pavement, and in the snow, so I
> would not lock it before I got a full time locker.
>
> I see my options:
> ARB
> OX
> new to me, Detroit electric
>
> heard bad things about OX diff covers, and worried about parts and service
> after there recent Bankruptcy
>
> ARB seems to be the best, but the most costly, especially after you put an
air
> tank and compressor (but I need OBA any way)
>
>
> My question:
> what's your take on the Detroit Electric? Good, Bad, Ugly? Sounds the
same as
> what come in the Rubi?
>
>
>
> Money doses not grow on trees, but I will have this a while, and only want
to
> do it once.
>
> 83 CJ 8, a work in progress
> http://hometown.aol.com/ebmvi/MyTJindex.html
> Take out the "XXX" to e-mail me
>

 

"Jeff Strickland" <crwlr@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:vgk3goh3vsf3a7@corp.supernews.com...
> Jerry,
> I just got the latest issue of the 4WheelParts monthly rag, and they have
a
> write up on the OX. Knowing that OX is having serious money troubles, I
> thought it strange that there was a write up. Aren't these write ups
usually
> done to generate sales? If the company is going, has gone, under, then
what
> is the point of writing about the products? Could 4WheelParts have their
> collective heads burried where the sun doesn't shine that a write up that
> was done months ago still get published even when the products are not
even
> available?
>
>

Most magazines have their write ups scheduled out 4-5 months in advance and
in some cases the printing plates are completed well in advance. They may
have not had the time to pull the article, or it is possible that they had
advertising based on the fact that the article was going to run. Sometimes
they have commitments they have to keep. If none of the above, then they
have their heads up their asses.

Chris