Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
Looking for impressions from those on here with a front TAD in their CTD... . at some point in the future I'm gonna take the plunge into a major front axle upgrade. I'm not really thrilled with the center axle disconnect that the powers at Chrysler saw fit to "bless" us with (note I never blamed DC for this one-engineering here was done way before their time 
)-one more thing to fail at an inopportune time. TJ's and newer XJ's, as well as Dakotas for that matter, seem to get along just fine with everything rolling up front all the time.
Also less than pleased with the crappy 44-sized axle shafts that we got stuck with-what's up with that? For the money that they extract from us for these trucks we should still have 35 spline gear up front-IMO anyways.
So I plan (somewhere down the road when I either win the lottery or my bankbook finally recovers from BOMBing
) to swap under a reverse-rotation 60 (stronger ring and pinion as well as higher driveline for clearance and also less joint angularity) with no disconnect at all-depending on how I go about it that will probably be accomplished with drive plates instead of hubs so if I did get in a parts-breaking bind I still could pull the affected side's plate and get out of where I'm going). Of course 35 spline shafts would be included in the build..... but I'm getting off the point of my original post here 
I'm leery of running an ARB-or any internally-contained air-actuated device for that matter-in the sub-zero weather that we see here for a good part of the year. I got bit in the butt by air leaks in the cold in my truck-driving days-don't plan a repeat of it with the Silver Cloud. I do agree that a selectable locker is the best way for front end use-and maybe by the time I'm ready to go OX Trax (or whatever their name is) will have a manually-selectable one for a D60 on the market. Tractech apparently soon will have an Electrac version of their Truetrac out for the D60's-works like a standard Truetrac until you flip the switch at which time it becomes fully locked. This sounds like what I want-but I'm curious as to what ill effects running a TAD in the front axle in the wintertime will cause. I know it's probably not the most wonderful thing you could do-but I'm also theorizing all that weight on the front end plants the tires hard enough to virtually eliminate any slip that the TAD could induce under normal (read throttle-off) cornering.
So how about it? Anybody running a Power-Lok or equivalent now that could give me some real-world feedback?
Jason
PS They're debating now whether to release an Electrac for the D80-they do make a Truetrac now so I would say that odds are good-if you're interested probably wouldn't hurt to drop Tractech an e-mail expressing that interest
)-one more thing to fail at an inopportune time. TJ's and newer XJ's, as well as Dakotas for that matter, seem to get along just fine with everything rolling up front all the time. Also less than pleased with the crappy 44-sized axle shafts that we got stuck with-what's up with that? For the money that they extract from us for these trucks we should still have 35 spline gear up front-IMO anyways.
So I plan (somewhere down the road when I either win the lottery or my bankbook finally recovers from BOMBing
) to swap under a reverse-rotation 60 (stronger ring and pinion as well as higher driveline for clearance and also less joint angularity) with no disconnect at all-depending on how I go about it that will probably be accomplished with drive plates instead of hubs so if I did get in a parts-breaking bind I still could pull the affected side's plate and get out of where I'm going). Of course 35 spline shafts would be included in the build..... but I'm getting off the point of my original post here I'm leery of running an ARB-or any internally-contained air-actuated device for that matter-in the sub-zero weather that we see here for a good part of the year. I got bit in the butt by air leaks in the cold in my truck-driving days-don't plan a repeat of it with the Silver Cloud. I do agree that a selectable locker is the best way for front end use-and maybe by the time I'm ready to go OX Trax (or whatever their name is) will have a manually-selectable one for a D60 on the market. Tractech apparently soon will have an Electrac version of their Truetrac out for the D60's-works like a standard Truetrac until you flip the switch at which time it becomes fully locked. This sounds like what I want-but I'm curious as to what ill effects running a TAD in the front axle in the wintertime will cause. I know it's probably not the most wonderful thing you could do-but I'm also theorizing all that weight on the front end plants the tires hard enough to virtually eliminate any slip that the TAD could induce under normal (read throttle-off) cornering.
So how about it? Anybody running a Power-Lok or equivalent now that could give me some real-world feedback?
Jason
PS They're debating now whether to release an Electrac for the D80-they do make a Truetrac now so I would say that odds are good-if you're interested probably wouldn't hurt to drop Tractech an e-mail expressing that interest
This baby'll be a custom job when it gets to that point----I have access (or hope I still do anyway) to a lathe, mill, press and someone smart enough to use all of it. 
4. 10 would be as low as I go-just to match up with the gearing already there..... You sound like a candidate for at least stub shaft upgrades eh? Poking around Pirate 4x4 (thanks for the link Charles!) revealed a relatively cheap way to get the 1. 5" 35 spline outers in place-filed that away for future reference... 
