2WD with rear locker - why? when?

Thanks for the concise reply. And with the 8.0 diff, that cant be too hard

 

LOL my dad gives me the same story when i tell him im going to pull out a stuck friend. "when i was a kid i had to drive everywhere in a 68 mustang with bald tires and a load of bricks in the trunk i always made it home!" He doesnt realize that my stuck friend is more often than not highcentered on a snowbank or in a iced over mud puddle

 

I just set the e-brake down a few clicks, enough to stop spinning freely. It's helped me out of a twist ditch before, where if I didn't know that little trick I would have been stuck.

hehe, free rear diff lock on an 08 PreRunner! woohoo

 

oh trust me, my friends frontier nismo got stuck on perfectly flat ground, it was just covered in wet clovers lol it was hilarious

 

Happened to me on numerous occasions in my old Mazdas. I have no intention of driving my Tacoma on wet grass and stopping, the results could be hilarious.

 

I don't know why you think you're going to need chains if you drive in snow. My non-locker SR5 with just the standard trac/a-LSD setup does just fine in snow up to 8-10 inches.

I suppose if we had 16" of snow/ice mix I might start to want chains or dedicated snow/ice tires...

 

^^ X2 ^^

When I saw the thread, this is EXACTLY what I was going to say... The best use that I could think of was on a boat ramp.

But in a nutshell, having a rear locker in any vehicle is a benefit. It gives you an advantage over an open diff rwd truck in off road situations, but I wouldn't go as far as saying it is as good as having 4wd. It is a close second though. The one other benefit of getting the off road 2wd version of the truck is the added ground clearance over the stock 2wd truck which also helps a lot.

Best of luck on your decision!

 

X3 for boat launches

 

They make off roads in 2wd? I did not know that.

 

Thread is 10 years old, let it die.

 

They've been making them since 1st gens Tacoma. I would bet the TRD off-road prerunner is one of their best selling trucks since they came out.

Edit: wow this thread is from 2011