Experiences w/ rear auto-locker in 2nd Gen AT daily drivers?

Looking for people with actual experience running rear auto-lockers in their 2nd Gen auto transmission daily drivers.

Please no boilerplate tales of woe from people who have not actually done this, preferably with a 2nd Gen auto DD. I ran an auto-locker in my 1st Gen MT DD for years, in all kinds of weather, and was pleased with the performance on pavement and off.

The 2nd Gen is a different animal, with a different differential, VSC and TRAC, not to mention I've gone from manual to auto. Aside from general reports of driving dynamics, I'm curious how VSC handles driving a locked axle sideways, reliability problems that presented themselves, and so on.

Much thanks!

 

Are you talking about a torsen style differential? I have an Eaton truetrac on a 2013 sr5. It works well for dd and no need to flip a switch to get posi traction. I have had rear elockers in the past and they work well in the muck but I was looking for automatic traction in on and off traction situations (think partially icy or snowy roads).

The availability for models is limited. I bought an sr5 bc I don’t think truetrac is available for off road package equipped elocker diffs.

 

Like this?
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/any-long-term-drivers-with-lunchbox-lockers.464823/

Or this?
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/just-installed-a-powertrax-no-slip-aka-lunchbox-locker-in-my-2nd-gen.561142/

 

Auto-lockers provide more traction and automation than a Truetrac, with handling trade-offs. I would love to find out that someone has been able set up a Truetrac to progressively output close to 100% equalized torque and can get TRAC to activate it when a wheel leaves the ground. As far as I can tell, Truetracs always need to be activated by applying the e-brake when a wheel is lifted, and still may not provide enough power throughput in some of those situations.

Excellent. Thank you @TnShooter. Guess I should have searched for "lunchbox locker" instead of "auto-locker" (but was trying not to exclude models that replace the carrier). Thanks again.

 

Still looking for reviews from anyone who has installed one in an automatic transmission 2nd Gen.