Locker and snow

Yeah that comment wasn't fully in response to the guy I quoted, just the first sentence.

 

Oh absolutely yes. It’s 2 wheels on either side of the vehicle supplying power to the surface, but the power is not equally distributed on the same axle so you don’t have the same concern of looping out.

 

No worries, I think everyone is on the same page.

 

If you're talking on road as well it's not like a locker should be used lol.

Way I see it locker is for climbing rocks or when you are stuck. Not for just driving to avoid getting stuck.

 

Not a problem, I think we’re all on he same page. I interpreted the initial post as an everyday driving situation where it snows. I think that’s the most common situation people find themselves in. I wish we lived in a world where we could off-road through the snow everyday!

 

Very bad for 95% of the conditions you will find on a road during a snow storm. If your ripping through 4 inches of snow in a parking lot and punching through snowbanks then yes it will help a bit.

On your commute on a road that has an inch or two accumulated between plow passes it will be shitty. As both wheels turn the same number of revolutions when you turn no matter how small an amount even just a few degrees on a relatively straight highway you will be forcing one tire to break free and slide a bit. Very not fun. You will lose handling and feeling. And god forbid you have a front locker and you try to turn anywhere near close to a right angle in 4wd. If you try to coast or use a little throttle the truck will not turn it will basically just push forward. You need to have full throttle and the tires spinning to turn.

I avoid driving my truck in the snow as I’m locked F/R, we take the forester on all snowy road trips up north.

 

Ive been looking for this type of thread. I just had my first experience off roading in the snow two weeks ago, with a small group and had lots of fun. I was strapped out 4 times. I was ok with it cuz that was all new to me too, more experience. Others got stuck too. Looking back on it I think my locker probably did me more harm than good on those forest roads. It made me slide side to side too much. I really feel that if I wouldn’t of had my locker engaged, I would have been better off.

 

I agree 100% on statements regarding snow but as far as sand we have been to Outer Banks, NC ... Ocracoke to be specific and due to my age I have had the pleasure of four wheeling many coastlines of sand and I can tell you
A) Ocracoke Island, NC has the deepest funkiest sand I have ever driven on
B) I have done most of that driving with a fully locked jku Rubicon and had to use lockers to make it down the beach. I spent more time winching people out in their 1/2 ton pickups by rookies that thought because they had “4 wheel drive” they were good to go.

So to recap and agree with the above posters:
Deep snow ..... lockers good to help you keep plowing
Ice on roads ...... no lockers , chains your best friend
Deep sand ....... rear lockers and air down you should be fine, add an arb air locker up front and air down and you are good to go

Just my .02

 

I put a full Detroit in my old 85 and a trutrac up front. My experience was off camber snow you had to be careful not to spin your tires or the ass end slid sideways. Also in parking lots sometimes the truck would push rather than steer. Needless to say my 2nd build had selectable lockers since I live in Canada.

 

crawl control used at all?

 

Yes and it didn’t help. Much like this. Once the snow gets compacted to ice, theres no traction. I’m running KO2’s

https://youtu.be/7tEPl-vXxDk

 

He's also working on a Locker Anytime Mod.

I need to gather parts and a panel for the 2Lo mod.