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today i was watching extreme 4x4 on spike and they showed a rock crawler that steered from the rear by just locking up that one side of the rear. now here is my question with a locker or a spool is this possible or would you need to have a limited slip diff. this lookes like a cool idea for a trail rig. this is my idea I want to make it so I can control the E-brake on either side so if I want to lock up one side i just have to pull that side on the e brake, of course i would have two levers one for each side. Another idea I was thinking about was making the rear brake system seperate and controling the pressure to the rear brakes with two extra master cylinders and boosters one for each side of the rear in the cab with levers but my biggest thing is the locker problem i need all 4 wheels to turn to make it an efficient rock crawler. This seems like it would work pretty good so any ideas or if you've heard of a kit let me know. I'm too damn cheap for the four wheel steering.

By the way I finally picked up my D44 for 80 bucks with a bad pinion. i do need some radius arms if anyone would want to sell some that they have extra laying around for an 78 bronco.

well, if you noticed that comp. crawler had an atlas II t-case, which aloud the drive to choose true 4 wheel drive, front wheel drive only, or rear wheel drive only. This has been around for quit a few years. These are called front or rear diggs. On that show she shifted the rear out put into nutreal, so only the front axle was driving. She she pulled the buggy around to the left she locked the rear left wheel which was the axis. I doubt that it would work as well on the trail as she had demonstrated because of the difference in terrain. Shop floors are slick. As for the spool or locker in the rear or the rig. A spool would make the other rear tire get dragged along which would make the front tire have to work even harder. As for locker, a detroit locker would be the way to go, they are designed to slip. I wouldn't advise going with a lockright or a minny locker because you it installes in to your stock carrier case which are weak. Ive seen them brake, even with out the added stress of a locker.