Performance of the Lock Right

[Carls_jeep]

You may remember that I installed a Lock Right in my rear axle and I promised a review of it. Well, I can tell you it is worth the cost and the time to install one.

Trails I used to force my way up spinning and clawing for movement are a thing of the past. Now I just start out in low range first or second gear and just creep right up the hill. It doesn't matter if it's large rocks, dirt or sand it just climbs right up like it was a pack mule, which I guess it is now.

I have drove my Jeep through places I could not go last year and probably shouldn't have gone this year. Not that it was an illegal trail, it was just a difficult trail I wouldn't try last year.

If your thinking about getting a Lock Right do it.

[dat]

I've been thinking about installing the lock right  (on down the road)

   did you install front and back or just back?   I've heard some folks say just the back is plenty,   but a little extra traction can't hurt

[Carls_jeep]

I put it in the rear axle only. If you put it in both then you will need power steering on the front to be able to turn it in 4whl dr. This is from those I have talked to that have it in both ends. It jerks the steering wheel a lot on turns as they are fighting each other.

Unless your doing a lot of serious rock climbing you only need it in the rear. It improved my traction 100% and I don't think I need it in the front. If you saw the trails I tested mine on you would understand why I don't need it in the front. The test trails were not gentle at all and I picked the most difficult I could find and some that found me.

I high centered twice on rocks and had to winch myself off. I could climb rocks I did not have ground clearance to move over. As long as the front and rear cleared the rock I could climb it but sometimes ground clearance stopped me.

Traction was not the problem, it was ground clearance. I was on a dugway that has deep washout on one side and on the high side was a dirt sandy 30 deg slope. The only way around that was to turn up hill and crab the Jeep on the slope down the dugway. Then I had to do the same thing going back up again. It was a little tense doing that.

[dat]

10-4,   they do pretty well without,   does it lock as well in reverse?  looks like it would,  you never know when you need to back out of a bind instead of bulldozing through it

[Carls_jeep]

The Lock Right locks forward or reverse. It's a ratchet type and when power is applied it locks solid.

I added some to the above post, you may want to read what I added.

[bretto]

I don't have one but would put one in in a heartbeat if I had the $$$.  Had them in front and rear on my Cherokee and it was incredible.