Axles

  If you’ve been following Project Buckshot, you know that we are transforming this once stock, tame ’75 Bronco into a Swiss Army knife of off-road capability. It’s receiving a big lift, big tires, a strong new engine, steering upgrades, disc brake conversion, transmission and transfer case upgrades and much, much more. As with any rig that’s getting bigger tires …

Is it a locker, is it a posi? Hum, I would have to say it falls somewhere in between. The manufacturer, Tractech calls it a limited slip differential. The TrueTrac is a gear driven traction adding device. According to Tractech, it provides a controlled amount of resistance to a one-wheel spinout, so that the other wheel (with traction) receives sufficient …

There’s something new to talk about around the water cooler or over a cold one around the campfire. After years of rumors, yarns, and gossip that it had gone the way of the Dodo and the Wooly Mammoth, the cable-actuated Ox Locker is back. When Ox was first introduced years ago, it had only one competitor in the market: the …

Bang!! Pow!! Crack!! No, it’s not the sounds of Bruce Wayne stomping out evil in a Batman episode. It’s the horrible sound of a good day of wheeling gone bad. If you’ve done enough hard-core wheeling it’s a sound that you’re probably familiar with. Tempting fate is something we all do to some extent when we head out for yet …

To continue our three part series, we now move to the rear of our project Blazer. To refresh everyone’s memory, while doing some suspension measurements on a new lift kit we installed, we had located our Blazer on the side of a hill. This is where we were when unpleasantly introduced to the sound of not only one axle exploding …

W hen considering what upgrades should be done for looks and which should be done for function, one must consider the parts that would fail you at the time when you need them most. I had just about replaced all of the “normal” failure type items- hoses, belts, etc. The next step to making my rig trail worthy and reliable …

Serious traction for serious situations, every four wheeler’s dream. I’ve personally had experience with three different models and makes of lockers in the past. With all honesty I can say the Detroit Gearless Locker has them all beat for smoothness, handling characteristics and noise reduction. The locker came well packaged and included a video, well written installation instructions with good …

  There’s a lot of buzz going around about lawsuits and patent infringements since the release of Detroits new EZ Locker, so we figured we’d give it a try and see what all of the hoopla was about. The folks here are 4x4review have been using Power Track’s version almost exclusively for several years now, so we have a pretty good …