I finally filled the driveway......

[Wayne M.]

If you can imagine a differential separating the middle and last pinions, that's kinda it.

Im going to suggest a locker for our collection trucks.

 

[GCroyle]

And the driveway is still full, of???????????????

 

[fest3er]

And the driveway is still full, of???????????????

Could depend on any livestock he may have....

 

[mwilson]

And the driveway is still full, of???????????????

Truck is back in Bangor, I can at least get the car back where it belongs.....

So I put the '97 across the road but that still leaves two Town and Country's, Hoopty, the '06, the fifth wheel and the utility trailer.....no more stuff......

 

[mwilson]

Could depend on any livestock he may have....

One wire haired fox terrier, that's all the domestic critters that we have. There are a multitude of squirrels, rabbits, deer and even had a moose track right by the big bird feeder.....that seed never stood a chance that night......and two muskrats that swim back and forth out front in the lake...

 

[mwilson]

Got it. So in the video it shows the locker on the front axle, but then shows torque application as though both are locked. Is that correct? Seems like at the end it should be 3-way.

Sorry, don't mean to be a pest.

The Meritor Graphics team got a little lazy.....

So with nothing locked the cartoon truck would have spun the left front drive tires as soon as it rolled onto the ice.

Locking the IAD only guarantees one wheel in each differential will be committed to drive, so if a wheel on each drive is on ice they spin just like any open differential will do.

Now what the graphic does not show is that BOTH differentials need to have the DCDL to follow the neat green flow of power and traction that they show. Don't know why they left that out.

So in the case of my truck the DCDL is only on the rear drive axle. You lock the IAD first and then lock the DCDL. Using the Meritor graphic as a reference the RIGHT REAR drive tire would be forced into action. Hence the "Three way lock"

 

[TFucili]

The Meritor Graphics team got a little lazy.....

So with nothing locked the cartoon truck would have spun the left front drive tires as soon as it rolled onto the ice.

Locking the IAD only guarantees one wheel in each differential will be committed to drive, so if a wheel on each drive is on ice they spin just like any open differential will do.

Now what the graphic does not show is that BOTH differentials need to have the DCDL to follow the neat green flow of power and traction that they show. Don't know why they left that out.

So in the case of my truck the DCDL is only on the rear drive axle. You lock the IAD first and then lock the DCDL. Using the Meritor graphic as a reference the RIGHT REAR drive tire would be forced into action. Hence the "Three way lock"

That confirms what I thought. Thanks, Mike!

 

[jhenderson]

I know a log truck driver who could turn that into scrap in short order. But then again, he could bust an anvil. He's a big fan of locking diffs while spinning his way in or out of a mud hole.

 

[mwilson]

I thought the same thing when the lockers were introduced years ago BUT what the locks did was eliminate spin out. That's what takes a lot of differentials out.

That's when a driver allows one wheel to spin for a while which trashes the spider gears, axle gears, and even the differential itself in some cases.