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PostPosted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 1:30 pm 
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What I know
TT is an LSD thus it is limited ,that is what it is a LIMITED slip
a power trax is a full locker thus it will fully lock 100% of the time unless you break it

now on to streangth you be the judge
XJ's come with 8.25's I know more than 1 guy running an 8.25 with 35's or 36's and 4.56 or 4.88 gears
and guess what they both run power trax's in the rear and run trails that I have mega trouble on
they wheel hard and I can not think of 1 time that they broke the locker or the carrier

now we are talking abour a KJ
so even 33's are out of the question and 4.56's are for sure not happening
so at best you will have 32's and 4.10's and less low end torque than a 4.0 so
why would strength be a question?

What it will come to is stricly road maners and what you want VS what you want to spend + what you can live with
so if you are on a budget and want a full locker and can live with funny road maners then a power trax is for you
if you are on the same budget and dont want funny road maners and can live being LIMITED then TT is for you
if you must have the best of both worlds then ARB is the way to go

As far as AIR problems go do worry about that
I have run 1 in the front of the TJ for 3+ years and have never had an issue in fact I had the O rings on the lolly pop
go out the compressor pushed out enough air so you could hear it hissing out of the breather


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"Cool", I hate to drive my ranger in the winter, trying to keep the salt off ha ha. I see the over pass is now open, been driving close to your house.

I want to publically thank bearmedic for his service to our country, he's been e-mailing me about the tru-trac. He's on deploment and wants to take his girlfriend on a trail ride and propose when he gets home. Sounds very romantic. Thanks again for your service and all you do, this nation owes you a great deal of gratitude for your sacrifice. You guy's are the tru hero's, not Barry Bonds, but those who give all for us. You guy's are allways in my thoughts and prayers, keep up the good work, fight the good fight and most of all, stay safe and may God bless!!!!!!!!!!!!

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 2:20 pm 
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I can tell you one thing, some lsd slip more than others. The whole idea of a traction adding device is to keep you moving, as long as it does, it's done it's job if it be a locker or lsd. A locker can be more of a pain than it is good, if you can drive your lsd on the road and aren't getting stuck off/road, then it's done what you paid money for it to do. If you need a full locker, then by all means get one, for most of us it would be over kill, or at least for me as I like to play hard on the street too at times and a full locker cramps my style ha ha. I crawled around in the mountains of W,Va for years with an open diff without alot of problems. The TT makes it somewhat effertless now and I can still straighten the turns on the way to town for a cold Mt Dew after wheeling. I started wheeling with an old 51 willys cj3a with no mods and bald tires and only had to get a horse or tractor a couple of times when I would get high centered on a sapling or something. If it wouldn't go up forward, I would turn it around and back up with some peope in the rear for added weight. All these locker and mud tires, lift kits are great, but there's alot to be said for man and machine against the elements, it will make a driver out of ya and most of all it's fun, cheap fun at that. Sometimes I feel I'm cheating by having the TT and bfg's. When it starts costing too much, it takes the fun out of it.

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again thx wendel, if any of you care to ride when i get home on leave somewhere in nga jus tlike a ride around helen ga on some of the mountain rds pm me i should be home on mid tour on nov 1. Granted i have a 2wd but i drove my 2wd f150 with 32's maxxis buchshots on alot of the trails up there while my dad and his buddies drvoe thier cj's and yj's around i was the odd man out but learned to pic good lines for a 2wd f150 and had less trouble on some rocks thanks to the sheer amount of tourque in my f150 and a lsd in the rear ( maybe the long wheel base helped to ) and to be honest of my years driving my f150 i only got stuck twice once where i bottomed out on teh frame cause the ground gave out , the second was sheer stupidity i had my bed full of lumber and pulled in to a narrow ditch side ways and was pinned on teh side ( lunch break at the farm).

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I have the no-slip and think it a good deal for the price. Easy install, works great off-road. Road manners are not really as bad as some people make it out to be. I know personally known 4-5 people that have them and all of them really don't mind the road manners. However it does take a little getting use to, but once I got use to it I forgot about it.

In terms of strenght it may be weaker than a TT or ARB, but I've seen the rear axles shaft of the 8.25 shear before the locker broke. So the locker may not be the weakest point. Plus with only 31-32" tires and a v6 you are going to have to try hard to break it.


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