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i am wanting to put a locker in my rear diff, can it be done? how hard will it be? any help would be great.

Thanks Mike.

What car? I'm guessing you're talking about the commonwhore?

can be done, but i dont think theres any switchable options. Youd have to either weld it, or you can get a locked diff centre, subaru do them.

alex

RSR 555 wrote:What car? I'm guessing you're talking about the commonwhore?

nah, in my foz paul. i am just going to weld the commy one.

Cheers Mike.

oh.. sorry mate.. I didn't read the title properly

Umm.. Like Alex has mentioned welding or find a RX Turbo Leone diff.

yeh, i dont know what i am doing though to weld it, how much do you recon i could pick one up for?? what i really want to do is make it rear wheel drive and then make it so the front wheels will engage when i put it in 4wd. like a propper transfer case. but that is to hard so yeh. haha.

Cheers Mike.

i amn more than happy to do the commy one, because i dont really care if i stuff that up, but as for my foz, i really dont want to stuff that one up.

Cheers Mike.

if you weld it you know youre gunna be squeeling around corners in carparks n shit, and also wear out tyres twice as quickly.

Not sure if its an option for ya, but you can remove a rear cv shaft to prevent this. Not sure if the AWD system will like it tho.

alex

just a few topics on the subject

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including yours

it can be done but it isn't cheap

TOONGA

swap it out for a nissan 190 i think was the diff code
and then you can get lockers for them

what is the nissan 190?

Never heard of a 190, but NIssan has used R180 and R200 diffs in the front of IFS Navaras and Pathies, and there are/were switchable lockers available for these.

Dane.

A H190 is a Nissan live axle type differential . I think they were some sort of metricated copy of an early pomy diff , silly things like carrier bearing adjustment via shims on the hemisphere side of the hemisphere .
Datsun 620's and 720's had a version of the H190 and I presume the Detroit locker hemisphere was intended for them . I had an ex rally one in the bum of my old Bluebird and I wouldn't use one in a road car again by choice .

A .

hmmm
yeah the model up from the R180 cause the 180 is what i got in the l
and the 200 is wrx or such

GOD wrote:Never heard of a 190, but NIssan has used R180 and R200 diffs in the front of IFS Navaras and Pathies, and there are/were switchable lockers available for these.

Dane.

Interesting..

this started out about me putting an lsd in my l seires on a rally, well there happend to be a more modern wrx.
the 180 fits in a l seires and the next one up, 190 or 200 fits in the wrx, probably the same in a foz dunno, and then you can still get limited slip diffs and lockers for both of the diffs i presume

spike wrote:hmmm
yeah the model up from the R180 cause the 180 is what i got in the l
and the 200 is wrx or such

Your L series has a r160 rear diff and so do all other Subaru's, except for later STI's, which have r180 rear diffs

There was a very rare very expensive Nissan works competition R190 diff but they are almost unobtanium and totally different to any other R series diff .
There is NO production R190 differential , the Datsun ones you refer to are live axle diffs as I said above and are "H" series .

A .

Suparoo wrote:Your L series has a r160 rear diff and so do all other Subaru's, except for later STI's, which have r180 rear diffs

ok thanks for clearing that up but he seemed pretty sure that datsun/nissan diff centers are the same size and interchangeable, with a diff lock

I am not sure if this would work and I dont have the funds or the time to do it.

But if you used a r180 sti diff housing (starting to get more common) and then put a navara r180 diff with a lokka centre (just released early this year) then you would have a good strong auto locking diff and upgraded sit rear shafts to go with it.