Manual Locking Hubs

[Solitude]

Hello folks,

While looking at some of the mod pictures I have seen some VX's with manual locking hubs..

What is the benefit with these.. does it mess up the TOD?

Guess thats all the questions I have for now.. I am sure others will reveal themselves as time goes by

Thanks
Jeff

[Greasemonkey]

Hi how can you have locking hubs on a car that has no auto lockers - the VX has a drive shaft that turns all the time the 4wd is on all the time it would mean fitting rodeo/trooper front drive shafts and taking a manual hub from the same vehicle - i don't see the point - did you know with a small modification you can convert the TOD to 2wd anyway - mine has 2wd already as its a JDM VX - its great fun and makes the car a lot more economical and faster but you do lose handling at speed i am sure you could convert yours using some info about the JDM TOD system - its the same as the trooper which in the US should come with 2wd as well
cheers
Steve

[kodiak]

It allows me to do parking lot acrobatics and it saves a little gas on long trips. The TOD doesn’t seem to care. I’ve had them on for about 8 months, I pulled mine off an old rodeo.

[nfpgasmask]

Pardon my ignorance, but can someone explain exactly what the advantage to having locking hubs would be? I mean, we are AWD to begin with, and then we have 4L, so what would having locking hubs add in addition to what we already have going for us?

Now, I know a 4WD/2WD toggle switch would help with gas mileage and possibly with wear on our front end components, but is that all we are talking about here?

Bart

[kodiak]

Nope, that’s about it other then its fun to have 2wd sometimes and you get a little more street cred with the off road crowd.

[kodiak]

And if you don’t have hubs you still get wear on the front components.