4.56 gears?

[Hummie2]

Steve...

Don't know if they make a locker for front axle on H2. Do you?

My experience has been with rear lockers(Detroit) and front posi-tracs(Spicer Powr-Loc)only about 80% positive on front. Was always told that you would loose steering on front at very much speed if were 100% positive on both axles. Might not be a problem at slower speed though. We were blasting throuh muddy spots and my old CJ5s with rear lockers and front posis and and I know you couldn't turn until you backed off throttle and let it turn then jump back on fuel again.

I used to desert race a CJ8 Scrambler pick-up that I had put Dana44s front and rear. Rear was a Detroit Locker and front was a Spicer Powr-Loc, but I ran it for a different reason in it. An open carrier only has 2 spider gears and Powr-Loc has 4 (in theory 2X as strong). I know we would blow spiders out through the cover with open carrier if front wheels got spinning and then caught good traction. Never did with Powr-Locs 4 spiders. Also had set of worn clutches in that Powr-Loc and it was only about 50-60% positive. Didn't affect steering at all and we ran over 100mph in 4wheel drive in the long straight streches. We had the transfercase blocked in to 4wheel drive so it couldn't jump out of gear when we got to jumping and we stayed in 4wheel all the time. I finally had to give that up though as the last we raced it we did a complete 360 end over end at about 70+mph and ended back up on the wheels about 100yds off the track. When we got out to survey the damage my co-driver said " if we don't quit this one of us is going to kill the other". I fully agreed and besides Im too damn old to bounce around like that anymore.

I'll stick with my H2's plush ride nowdays.

Don

[This message was edited by Hummie2 on January 12, 2003 at 07:53 PM.]