Quote from: Maroon Monsoon on June 16, 2006, 08:08:28 PM

interesting how the axle tapers. it doesn't seem as weak as I thought now but I still don't think a zuk axle is worth investing in. I like the 9 inch option myself

Yes the axle shaft should be fine, except when it breaks it snaps off at the splines and might leave little bits in you diff.

my point exactly

I found this review for another type of locker:
http://www.pirate4x4.com/articles/productreviews/aussie/
http://offroadlockers.com/
http://www.4wdsystems.com.au/html/lokka.htm

I've just been reading some forums and there are lots of mixed reviews, infact I'm not completly sure these two are the same thing.  Anyway they don't make them for Suzuki's but maybe we should make some noise about it.  It does look like they make them for the ford 9" though. . .

http://www.pirate4x4.com/articles/productreviews/aussie/
http://offroadlockers.com/

These two are the same, the Aussie Locker.

http://www.4wdsystems.com.au/html/lokka.htm

This is the Powertrax Lock-Right.  In Oz and certain parts of the world it's sold as the Lokka.  Get it?  Locker...locka...lokka...

I've just been reading some forums and there are lots of mixed reviews, infact I'm not completly sure these two are the same thing.  Anyway they don't make them for Suzuki's but maybe we should make some noise about it.  It does look like they make them for the ford 9" though. . .

I'd LOVE to have an Aussie Locker, heard nothing but rave reviews about them.

I heard the Powertrax Lock-Right Lokka was differenct to this one also called a Lokka and I think the one from 4wdsystems is made in Australia, also the description and pictures looked a lot like the Aussie Locker so I thought it might have been renamed as the Aussie Locker to sell to the US market.  Anyway I don't have anything much to back it up and in some of the forums I was looking there was a lot of confusion over names.  Someone would say it did . . . to my car and then they would realise they were talking about a different product. 

It was quite funny how the pirate4x4 review came about.  Someone bagged out the Aussie Locker in one of their forums, the guys from Aussie Locker wrote a post in defence of it and so someone from pirate4x4 offered to test one and gave it a great review!

Anyway I guess we can only hope they put out one the will fit in our zuke's. 

About 6 years ago I was half ready to move to New Zealand and was regularily reading a NZ 4x4 forum.  Guys kept talking about having "Lokkas" and I wanted to know what the hell a "Lokka" was.  One of them sent me a link and whalla, there's a picture of a Powertrax Lokka, aka the Powertrax Lock-Right.


The reason the Aussie Locker and the Lock Right/Lokka look so similar is that the guy that designed the LR back in the '70's developed the Aussie Locker in the late '90's.  He sold the design and company after a while, before Powertrax got the rights to it, and came up with his own improvements and modifications to make the Aussie Locker.

I've read that Aussie Locker review on Pirate, that Toyota guy raved about it.  There's also a couple guys on TheRangerStation.com using them in their Fords and they love them too.  I REALLY wanted one when I put the locker in my Ranger but they were having problems with the Dana 35 line of lockers a few years back and it kept delaying the Ford 8.8" models.  I finally bought a Powertrax No-Slip instead.

Aussie is worth every penny..........

Screw lockrite+detroit(lunchbox crap) They are evil and snap like a SOB........

I run a front aussie in my 91' Tracker (36's toyota axles dual t-case bla bla)
They are HUGE.....We had to clearance my third to get that sucker to fit........talk about beefy.
NEVER ever had a problem. Best locker I have ever bought (next to the full detroit in the rear of my tracker).............


My husband and I have been debating about a rear sidekick locker for our new GV..........
We think this will work..........and we might just explore this theory...........

There was a guy on here who tried to put a Sidekick locker in his GV.  Didn't work.  Now if you swap in Kick/Track 3rds it'd work fine.

i want a locker, but how "bad" is a lock-right compared to an aussie locker?
here in Norway, the lock-right is the cheapest option.
but i guess the ARB is the best option, but i can get 4 lock-right's for the price of one arb with compressor :'(

maybe we should start to "flame" them with e-mail's, telling them that they should make GV-lockers?