Serious Offroad
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Eaton e locker
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Vanimal
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sorry for the late reply, forgot i posted in here.
As for what broke, first it was hard parts. internally, there is a ring that moves back and forth depending on if it's activated or not and locks the spider gear. that broke in half and eventually bound up and wore out the dogs on both the ring and the spider gear. after that was all fixed, the electromagnet burned out shortly after.
i do beat the piss out of it, but i've had lunchbox lockers last longer in my old d30. mostly rock crawling, i do break a lot of things. D44's front and rear, on small 35's. In socal, so wheeling shouldnt be a ton different than CO. Eaton will not sell you individual parts, they sell "kits". so if you break a $3 pin, you have to buy a $270 hard parts rebuild kit. If you burn out the electromagnet, you have to buy a $170 stator kit. If you break both like me, you get to buy both. They do not sell replacement parts direct, so you have to go through a dealer to buy replacement parts.
obviously it's a bit late for the OP as he already ordered, but since you guys asked...
As for what broke, first it was hard parts. internally, there is a ring that moves back and forth depending on if it's activated or not and locks the spider gear. that broke in half and eventually bound up and wore out the dogs on both the ring and the spider gear. after that was all fixed, the electromagnet burned out shortly after.
i do beat the piss out of it, but i've had lunchbox lockers last longer in my old d30. mostly rock crawling, i do break a lot of things. D44's front and rear, on small 35's. In socal, so wheeling shouldnt be a ton different than CO. Eaton will not sell you individual parts, they sell "kits". so if you break a $3 pin, you have to buy a $270 hard parts rebuild kit. If you burn out the electromagnet, you have to buy a $170 stator kit. If you break both like me, you get to buy both. They do not sell replacement parts direct, so you have to go through a dealer to buy replacement parts.
obviously it's a bit late for the OP as he already ordered, but since you guys asked...
DutchVDub
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Damn, at least with ARB you can get all the parts individually.
xj5280
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- Denver Colorado
My experience with eaton was different. First, thank you for the update.
When I used an Detroit lunchbox in my 30 in my wrangler I was sent both internal hard parts and springs/pin free of charge when I contacted their eaton PR department, not once but twice. It took one email and that was it.
When I used an Detroit lunchbox in my 30 in my wrangler I was sent both internal hard parts and springs/pin free of charge when I contacted their eaton PR department, not once but twice. It took one email and that was it.
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xj5280
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Update- so I had everything installed and went in fairly easy. Bench tested, all good. Wiring it up was a breeze. Took it out..... No lock up?????
Put my meter on it, traced power everywhere, all the way to the plug right before the locker. Got OHMs thru the plug going in to the wiring of the locker????? Cut the zip ties, loom, and tape to check wiring, everything looks good.
Got frustrated/cold and went to go get beer. Thought WTH I will engage the locker and try again. Locked up.... Unlocked it, then locked up again. Got home dressed the wiring again and secured the connector to the UCA, took it out....nothing.
So, I searched some forums and sounds like a few other guys have had problems with the connector not making a good connection. Tomorrow I will cut out the connector and hard wire the locker.
For what it's worth (when it worked) the engagement/disengagement was smooth and quiet and worked great, Practically instantaneous. Look forward to taking it to the hills since I missed out heading up with Dutch today cause of this problem.
Put my meter on it, traced power everywhere, all the way to the plug right before the locker. Got OHMs thru the plug going in to the wiring of the locker????? Cut the zip ties, loom, and tape to check wiring, everything looks good.
Got frustrated/cold and went to go get beer. Thought WTH I will engage the locker and try again. Locked up.... Unlocked it, then locked up again. Got home dressed the wiring again and secured the connector to the UCA, took it out....nothing.
So, I searched some forums and sounds like a few other guys have had problems with the connector not making a good connection. Tomorrow I will cut out the connector and hard wire the locker.
For what it's worth (when it worked) the engagement/disengagement was smooth and quiet and worked great, Practically instantaneous. Look forward to taking it to the hills since I missed out heading up with Dutch today cause of this problem.
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Serious Offroad
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Sent ya a PM
xj5280
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Got it all wired up, no hard wiring, it just took a little bit of heat applied to the frozen plastic (being 0 degrees out and all) to get the male ends inside of the plug. Thanks frank for the phone call, appreciate it:worship:
Serious Offroad
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No thanks necessary...but your welcome of course!
xj5280
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Well who the hell else would tell them to call em on a Sunday night about a locker? Even my wife gave you kudos :yelclap:which is rare
supernatural
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Frankz the man
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