Outer Limits 4x4 Board

Hi all

I've got the opportunity to purchase two complete axle assemblies from a Japanese market HJ60 which have the Toyota factory cable diff locks.

My vehicle is an Aus market 1984 HJ60 G pack with 2H diesel and 5speed manual and open diffs at both ends.

I'm pretty sure that the axle assemblies will swap straight in and the routing of cables and fabrication of levers, etc shouldn't be too hard. Basically, I'm expecting around $1500 all up for both axles installed with the lockers.

does this sound like as good a deal as I think it is? Considering a single Air locker installed will cost me about $1800.

Does anyone have knowledge about these diff locks? Are they as strong as you'd expect from Toyota? Do you know of any potential hiccups I may encounter with the swap?

I answered your ?s on ih8mud.com forum. But how common are cable operated diff locks down under?

Dave

Diesel 60 wrote:Hi all

I've got the opportunity to purchase two complete axle assemblies from a Japanese market HJ60 which have the Toyota factory cable diff locks.

My vehicle is an Aus market 1984 HJ60 G pack with 2H diesel and 5speed manual and open diffs at both ends.

I'm pretty sure that the axle assemblies will swap straight in and the routing of cables and fabrication of levers, etc shouldn't be too hard. Basically, I'm expecting around $1500 all up for both axles installed with the lockers.

does this sound like as good a deal as I think it is? Considering a single Air locker installed will cost me about $1800.

Does anyone have knowledge about these diff locks? Are they as strong as you'd expect from Toyota? Do you know of any potential hiccups I may encounter with the swap?

I dont know a lot about these diffs but im pretty sure one of the inner axles on both diffs is different to stock 60 series axles as the locking dog runs on one axle. Also is the rear diff a Full Floater or only Semi Floating?

$1800 for an air-locker WHA!!!!!!!!!!

your getting ripped off mate

i just paid $925 for the front and 950 for the rear plus $400 for fitting..for both

as far as the cable diffs tho......no idea sorry

Elmo was that a special price for you or anyone if so would you mind saying where from ????

By the way id throw one in her !

hehehehehe kinda like your flies

got it from Out Of Town 4WD in Newcastle

got the invoice in front of me, i just realised then tho, that you gotta add GST, so $1016.90 for the front and $1049.07 for the rear

and the $400 was cause we wired it all up, and mounted all the solenoids and everything ourselves as we dont use an ARB compressor anymore, we use an endless air

Cheers Elmo , that sounds about right but yeah $ 1800.00 shit loads too much !!!

uh huh, i nearly fell off my chair the first time i read that

there are obviously some very greedy retailers out there unfortunately

The price I was quoted for the air locker included supply and install of the compressor...considering ARB list the price of the air locker itself as $1500 I thought that was ok.

1800 is actually slightly under retail for supply and fit of one air locker and the compressor. Dunno why you guys reacted so much.
Assuming thats what he meant, not just for the locker.

Nemesis, i agree. i have rung around and it was around 1800 fittted...

im too povo, so i say cheap and nasty lockrite.

but cable lockers sound goood. wonder why they have them in japan, they dont have enough space to 4x4 do they??

Axles arrive next week. I'll save $$ by swapping the axles with a mate's help and only pay the shop to route the cables, fabricate some handles and wire up some warning lights.

I'm still going to end up with two Toyota factory diff locks for less than a single ARB!!

Are the diffs fully floating or semi floating???
The yank 60's are semi floating, and a mate bought an imported MWB that has got semi floating rear axle too. Might wanna check.....

My understanding is that both of my axles are semi floating and the axles with the diff locks are fully floating....but that should make no difference as I'm swapping in the entire diff/axle assembly.