My buddy Dave's trail truck made me rethink lockers vs. spools in mud.

I was over at Dave's place last Saturday in his garage near Waco, and he was finishing up a rear end swap on his '85 Toyota. He told me he pulled out his lunchbox locker and put in a full spool because he kept losing traction in deep holes. I've always run selectable lockers for the street manners, but his argument was that a spool never fails and you get 100% hookup every time. He showed me video of him crawling through stuff where my locker would have slipped before engaging. Now I'm wondering if I'm overthinking it for a truck that sees 90% mud and trail use anyway. Anyone else made the switch and regretted it for daily driving or was it worth it?

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blair5973d ago

Dave's '85 Toyota with a spool is basically a welded diff that says "I don't care about turning, I just want to go forward." I swapped a spool into my old K5 Blazer for a season of mud runs and daily drove it for three months in Houston traffic. That thing would chirp tires every time I hit a gas station parking lot and parallel parking became a full contact sport. You really only regret a spool when you have to make a sharp turn into your own driveway or someone asks you to pick up mulch from Lowes.

karen_roberts43d ago

Chirp tires every time I hit a gas station parking lot" LOL that's dedication right there.