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Originally Posted by BrisNut
Stuff the CV breakage, skip the front locker and fit a LSD instead, MQ rear LSD fits GQ front with some machining work. And no AVM hubs either they are crap, though they do make a good fuse guaranteed to fail before your CV's.
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had that in my patrol and sorry to say i still broke cv's with the LSD in the front. In fact i still broke cv's with no locker in the front. In theory they are a good fuse but they dont work properly when the wheels are turned and thats when the cv's are at their weakest. So the CV goes first. Also patrol diffs have a horrible turring circle.
I can say from experience that GQ front diffs are pretty crap. CV's are too small, hubs are hard to come by as most people pillage wreckers for them and the wheel bearing design leads them to need replacing multiple times a year if running 35's or bigger. i've broke close to 10 cv's in a patrol and did around 20 wheel bearings and about 5 hubs in the 9 years i ran my patrol. I was running 35's up to 37" tyres.
under a heavy GQ patrol most people are putting GU diffs in. I woundnt bother with a GQ front diff, you'll have more problems than you did with your D30. You might find it a little better as the jeep weighs less, but i dont count it as a good mod for a jeep as you lose a ton of diff clearance as well, so you'll need to start running at least 35's to get that back. The rear diff on the other hand is great.
Also diff gears for a patrol are around $700 an end.
