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Originally Posted by xjrob
it is true it is seamless and good on the road, i took mine out sold it and installed an e-locker, much better off road. I have not noticed the quarter turn before locking from forward to reverse with 4.1:1 diff that is one sixteenth of a turn at the wheel so you would think if it was that much you would feel it
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The diff ratio has nothing to do with how much the Elocker turns before locking as it is on the axle shaft's axis of rotation not the driveshaft (so after the ratio part). You generally won't notice it as you are not outside of the vehicle to see it but it doesn't change the fact that you can/are shock loading the locking mechanism, pins, carrier and axles if you don't have the room to creep the additional distance to lock the mechanism up before loading it up. This is where a direct locking "locker" (Airlocker/Oxlocker) has the advantage of being locked pretty much the second you hit the button so you don't cause the shock loading, then if you roll back and "Hit it Again" you don't have the mechanism cycle through locked and unlocked which guarantees the shock loading of all the parts like an elocker.
You will never see tests of this fashion on an Elocker because it will fail prematurely if they did, they always put them in a device that slowly drives the torque into the carrier and locker giving it all the time in the world to lock before it gets loaded up with torque. Frankly from and engineering point it is a really crappy design despite their marketing and I would use a leaking airlocker over one in my vehicles any day (just not ARB). Why spend a lot of your hard earned money and put something in designed to increase the likelihood of something expensive going BANG!
XJ Sport - finally some mods - still long wish list
