Broken aussie locker

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Mon Sep 07, 2009 1:01 am

Diggerfreek wrote:

So true to one of my favorite motto's, if it can be broken, I will break it.........................

So for you viewing enjoyment........................

Diggerfreek wrote:

I don't know. I think it is because of shock loads created from the ESP possibly. For the last couple of weeks, it has been acting a tad strange and last night I drove out to my buddies farm. I tried to do a cookie of 2 with out turning off the esp and it popped a little. Turned off the esp and started turning cookies with no problem with a pop here and there.... No problem I thought. Stayed for dinner and left his house. It is a 1/2 miles of loose dirt till you hit the pavement from his house. Something didn't seem right while driving on the dirt but I didn't give it any thought. As soon as I hit the pavement I know it was jacked. I tried to drive it but after 500 foot of popping and banging, I know it wasn't going to survive on the highway. I turned around and went back to his house where I dropped my drive shaft and drove it home in fwd.... Then spent the next 3 hours with flashlights ripping out the locker and putting back in the spider gears........

JeepBumm68 · **Posted:** Mon Sep 07, 2009 1:06 am

that sucks. never seen an aussie do that

daspes · **Posted:** Mon Sep 07, 2009 1:07 am

That sucks! But it does make me feel a little better. You contact Aussie about it yet?

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:52 am

daspes wrote:

That sucks! But it does make me feel a little better. You contact Aussie about it yet?

Yeah, I sent them an email, so we will see what they say,,

Oh and to make it better, I had to drain out 50 bucks worth of amsoil to

dieselenthusiast · **Posted:** Mon Sep 07, 2009 5:07 am

Bummer…………… I wondered how well that lunchbox locker would hold up. Is this the first “damaged” report on the forum?

Inc · **Posted:** Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:03 pm

dieselenthusiast wrote:

Bummer…………… I wondered how well that lunchbox locker would hold up. Is this the first “damaged” report on the forum?

I believe it is the first busted Aussie on here.

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Mon Sep 07, 2009 3:34 pm

Inc wrote:

dieselenthusiast wrote:

Bummer…………… I wondered how well that lunchbox locker would hold up. Is this the first “damaged” report on the forum?

I believe it is the first busted Aussie on here.

Yep, I'm the first as far as I know

here is a little something from customer service

We have discovered a defect is some Chrysler 8.25 carriers where one side of the axle shaft holes are slightly off center. For us to verify the cause of the failure of your locker we need for you to go to www.aussielocker.com on on the left side of the page you will see SERVICES. Click on Contact Us, and then on Talk To Our Engineers. Fill out the form in detail and send it to us. We will assign a technician to your problem, and make arrangements from an RMA to be issued. Because of the nature of the past two failures related to the Chrysler carrier your locker will be sent to an independent consultant for review as to the cause of the failure.
We apologize for any inconvenience you have experienced. We have thousands of Aussie Lockers in daily service for many years with no issues such as you experienced.

dieselenthusiast · **Posted:** Mon Sep 07, 2009 3:43 pm

I like Chrysler, I really do…………….. but I sure hope they get their crap together and pay a little more attention to quality.

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Mon Sep 07, 2009 3:54 pm

yeah, I'm with you on that one.... but I guess this is why you buy an ARB :roll:

dieselenthusiast · **Posted:** Mon Sep 07, 2009 4:22 pm

Diggerfreek wrote:

yeah, I'm with you on that one.... but I guess this is why you buy an ARB :roll:

Yeah, but even ARB is depending on consistent manufacturing and quality OEM parts.

tjkj2002 · **Posted:** Mon Sep 07, 2009 8:51 pm

dieselenthusiast wrote:

Diggerfreek wrote:

yeah, I'm with you on that one.... but I guess this is why you buy an ARB :roll:

Yeah, but even ARB is depending on consistent manufacturing and quality OEM parts.

A ARB locker or Detroit Locker replaces the whole OEM carrier so what happened to Digger's aussie would not have happened with a ARB or Detroit since they are a full carrier replacement.

dieselenthusiast · **Posted:** Mon Sep 07, 2009 9:15 pm

tjkj2002 wrote:

dieselenthusiast wrote:

Diggerfreek wrote:

yeah, I'm with you on that one.... but I guess this is why you buy an ARB :roll:

Yeah, but even ARB is depending on consistent manufacturing and quality OEM parts.

A ARB locker or Detroit Locker replaces the whole OEM carrier so what happened to Digger's aussie would not have happened with a ARB or Detroit since they are a full carrier replacement.

That's good to know...........................ARB all the way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bobcat7 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 10, 2009 1:31 pm

Wow, I just installed my Aussie this past weekend. Any indication that things were going wrong before hand? Only have about 20 miles on mine so far but it seems to be working fine.

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Thu Sep 10, 2009 2:15 pm

No not really... It was a little load but I think it was because I was running a synthetic oil. I drove around for 200 miles with dino on the diff and then switched... it got a little louder but I played it off as I have heard reports of a noise change in some of the threads on here....

The only indication it gave before it doo doo it self was it was popping when I was driving on the dirt while in 4x4 after I left my friends house. But as soon as I hit the pavement and switched back in to 2wd, it was gone for sure....

beforedawn · **Posted:** Thu Sep 10, 2009 8:41 pm

looks like ill be taking a peak at mine this weekend its been making random popping noises lately

now this makes me wonder

Steve Davis

bobcat7 · **Posted:** Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:56 pm

Anything new on the Aussie locker as far as warranty or what may have caused the failure. I only have about 150 miles on mine and it seems fine so far.

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:02 pm

Nothing yet, I was just going to email them to find out what the status is........

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