Locker Newbie - Looking for some "Words of Wisdom" on wheeling with lockers ...

JeepJeep75 said:

Going from personal experience wheeling a Suzuki Samurai with a front locker only, it SUCKED for, well, every off-road situation we came across. Going down a loose, dirt-rock hill the back end always wanted to slip out to the downhill side. Going up a loose hill of any type of terrain, the front end would slip out, going to the downhill side of the trail. Steering was impossible. Traversing a hill sideways, forget it! Couldn't steer into the hill at all. The front of the truck would just slip right down the hill. This was the worst mod my brother ever did to his Samurai. I don't know why he didn't do the back instead. I can only imagine a JK would be the same, but I'll never know.

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Randy Tadevich said:

I will have to swap it around and try the rear engagement first. At this point I don't know any better. But I can say it has worked out pretty well thus far. Thanks guys.

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WJCO said:

You should be able to just swap the connectors on the manifold solenoids (and obviously relabel your switches up front by swapping covers) to change it around I would think.

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2nd.gunman said:

^^^ this. I will lock the rear before a big obstacle but rarely ever engage the front unless it's pretty straight and I'm struggling.

Most of the time I only use both to get out of mud holes that were deeper than expected


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Randy Tadevich said:

I did some searching on this subject out of curiosity and there seems to be more people than I would have thought that prefer to lock the front first. In thinking about it myself, my simple mind thinks of it like this.... it would be easier to pull a weighted object up from below than trying to push it up. My second thought is that most cars have gone to a front wheel drive system and front wheel drive cars are better in the snow, to keep it simple stupid. Plus if the rear is locked first, wouldn't that essentially be shoving the rig into an obstacle? What arguments for the rear locked first?

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Randy Tadevich said:

I did some searching on this subject out of curiosity and there seems to be more people than I would have thought that prefer to lock the front first. In thinking about it myself, my simple mind thinks of it like this.... it would be easier to pull a weighted object up from below than trying to push it up. My second thought is that most cars have gone to a front wheel drive system and front wheel drive cars are better in the snow, to keep it simple stupid. Plus if the rear is locked first, wouldn't that essentially be shoving the rig into an obstacle? What arguments for the rear locked first?

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Randy Tadevich said:

I did some searching on this subject out of curiosity and there seems to be more people than I would have thought that prefer to lock the front first. In thinking about it myself, my simple mind thinks of it like this.... it would be easier to pull a weighted object up from below than trying to push it up. My second thought is that most cars have gone to a front wheel drive system and front wheel drive cars are better in the snow, to keep it simple stupid. Plus if the rear is locked first, wouldn't that essentially be shoving the rig into an obstacle? What arguments for the rear locked first?

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Randy Tadevich said:

I did some searching on this subject out of curiosity and there seems to be more people than I would have thought that prefer to lock the front first. In thinking about it myself, my simple mind thinks of it like this.... it would be easier to pull a weighted object up from below than trying to push it up. My second thought is that most cars have gone to a front wheel drive system and front wheel drive cars are better in the snow, to keep it simple stupid. Plus if the rear is locked first, wouldn't that essentially be shoving the rig into an obstacle? What arguments for the rear locked first?

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JeepJeep75 said:

In your searching, what type of terrain are these people wheeling on that prefer to have the front locked first?

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Randy Tadevich said:

I did some searching on this subject out of curiosity and there seems to be more people than I would have thought that prefer to lock the front first.

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Randy Tadevich said:

I did some searching on this subject out of curiosity and there seems to be more people than I would have thought that prefer to lock the front first. In thinking about it myself, my simple mind thinks of it like this.... it would be easier to pull a weighted object up from below than trying to push it up. My second thought is that most cars have gone to a front wheel drive system and front wheel drive cars are better in the snow, to keep it simple stupid. Plus if the rear is locked first, wouldn't that essentially be shoving the rig into an obstacle? What arguments for the rear locked first?

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Randy Tadevich said:

My second thought is that most cars have gone to a front wheel drive system and front wheel drive cars are better in the snow

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wayoflife said:

Not sure where you've been searching or where you've been finding this information but it clearly wasn't on here.

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