opinions about locking front, back, or both, and use.

[MrSmokey]

i am wanting to install a lockright/aussie locker. i have a 44 up front and a 60 out back on my 72 highboy.

i am wondering, should i put one just up front, just out back, or both?

is it going to crab walk like mad with both? is it going to be horrid in snow with both?
i could always unlock the short side hub until i really need it.

any reason to just do locker up front, or just out back?

is a locker up front going to kill the dana 44?

this is my farm truck, it sees pavement sometimes, but usually is off road working, i am in NH, and while i dont take the truck on the road in the winter unless i absolutely have to, it does crawl around in the woods etc. i am not trying to rock crawl or anything like that, just working with it in the woods skidding logs, moving stuff etc, and i dont want it stuck.

many times a locker would have easily saved me having to use a come along to get the thing out.

thanks guys.

[MrSmokey]

i should mention, i also plow snow with this truck.

[Madman]

I have lockers in the front and rear of my F250, but can't testify about the effectiveness as it is still under rebuild, but I do have lockers in the front and rear of my 1948 Willys CJ2A, and hunt in very snowy conditions of the Colorado Rockies with no issues. I've heard the stories it would crab walk and all that, but been using it in some baaaad stuff (narrow and icy shelf roads while elk huntings) for over ten years and I'm still here. Don't think being heavier in a truck would make it any worse...my

[MrSmokey]

thanks, i would like to do them both, as that seems to make since because the truck is 90% off road, if i am on road with other traffic (snow or mud) in 4wd, probably unlocking one hub in the front would help.

i dont want to spend a ton of money or time though, if i cannot get the lunchbox type, i probably will just weld or spool the thing. forget air lockers, to many points to fail, too much money.

[1972hiboy]

In slippery conditions your going to loose steering with lockers in the front. I find the better combination to be is something in the back and leave the front open. Kinda the best compromise. My good buddy used to take his 72 f250 4x4 up to montana in the winter with a cabover camper to go deer hunting and hitting the snow drifts that were three feet tall he said he would have to point the truck straight and head for it cause he could turn the steering wheel either way and it wouldnt do anything but go straight and he had lockers in front and back. just another opinion