Hi Henry,
I got busy and dropped the ball on these ARB lockers ..... but I'm
interested in either a locker or an ABS system capable of the locking
function.
The Toro owner said ARB might be willing to do a special run if there was
enough interest.
I talked with ARB-USA and this seemed true.
I polled the net and reported to the Toro guy about a dozen of us here at
GMCnet were interested. I think fewer than that responded but I felt I
could peddle the remainder.
He was polling the Toro net but haven't heard from him so I suppose there
wasn't much interest over there.
His address is BigToro69 if you would like to talk with him.
ARB is an Australian company with their USA office / warehouse in Seattle.
A tech rep at ARB-USA said they would need a differential to look at and
measure.
There is a chance they might find something suitable among their existing
inventory in which case a special run would not be needed.
I spent some time on the phone chasing down other brands of lockers. All
were dead ends.
ARB would be my first choice since it is driver selectable, reputed to be
one of the strongest and when the switch is off, it is an open differential
like we have now.
Looks like the next step is to find a differential and get it out to ARB-USA
in Seattle for them to look over.
Don Miller
75 project
Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
> A while back someone posted that they were looking into a transmission mod
> that would permit selectively locking the front wheels to aid in traction.
> Anybody own up to it? I'd like to find out what the possibilities are.
>
> Also, has anybody installed real ABS (not brak guard)?
>
> Henry
>
> From Archives - 2-23-99:
> I ran across a Toronado owner interested in installing an ARB locker.
>
> ARB might consider a special production run if there is enough interest.
>
> This guy is trying to locate other interested Toro owners and asked me to
> check with GMCMH owners.
>
>
> This is an off road system and reputed to be very strong but I have no
> experience with it.
>
> ARB is a manual system totally controlled by the driver. A switch on the
> dash uses air pressure to lock the two drive wheels together. When the
> switch is off, the differential operates open, just as it does now.
>
> The ARB carrier replaces the stock final drive ring gear carrier which
> contains the spider gears.
>
> The company site at
http://www.arb.com.au/ is temporarily low on
> information content but there is a good bit of ARB commentary on the off
> road sites.
>
>
> Any of you interested ?
>
>
>
> Don Miller
> 75 Glennbrook
> Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
