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Title: Trail Tough Products has NEW Spartan Lockers for the Suzuki Samurai!!
Post by: ebewley on February 24, 2010, 04:16:43 PM
Trail Tough Products has NEW Spartan Lockers for the Suzuki Samurai!!

The new Spartan Automatic Lockers are easier than ever to install. They work with the original side gears - which means they can be used either front OR rear. These economical lockers operate by locking when torque is applied yet differentiate in no-torque situations. Spartan Lockers use high nickle 9310 chrome moly components for ultimate reliability.

 
Item # SPR-400   Retail Price $209.00 - SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY OFFER $189.00 !!!


See them here:
http://www.trailtough.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=257&category_id=11&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=53 (http://www.trailtough.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=257&category_id=11&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=53)


Trail Tough Products
1031 Narregan St
Medford OR 97501
877-789-8547
Title: Re: Trail Tough Products has NEW Spartan Lockers for the Suzuki Samurai!!
Post by: M!KE on March 22, 2010, 11:29:12 AM
The link dont work.
Title: Re: Trail Tough Products has NEW Spartan Lockers for the Suzuki Samurai!!
Post by: ebewley on March 22, 2010, 12:48:59 PM
The link dont work.


Just clicked it and it was fine... Try just going to their homepage and look for specials.

http://www.trailtough.com (http://www.trailtough.com)

-Eric
Title: Re: Trail Tough Products has NEW Spartan Lockers for the Suzuki Samurai!!
Post by: Drone637 on March 24, 2010, 02:42:08 PM
Always good to have more options.  :)

Any review out there yet?
Title: Re: Trail Tough Products has NEW Spartan Lockers for the Suzuki Samurai!!
Post by: darnold87 on April 28, 2011, 01:35:02 PM
Can anyone tell me what mods needs to be done to run this locker in the rear of a sidekick?  I understand its an easy mod but haven't heard the details...  Thanks.
Title: Re: Trail Tough Products has NEW Spartan Lockers for the Suzuki Samurai!!
Post by: darnold87 on April 28, 2011, 01:52:44 PM
Can anyone tell me what mods needs to be done to run this locker in the rear of a sidekick?  I understand its an easy mod but haven't heard the details...  Thanks.

I just spoke with Brent at TT...
Sounds like the Spartan will work with early Sidekicks (pre '96 I assume?).
Notes: Remove sidegear shims, use original cross pins, and may need to grind square block to make sure crosspins fit nicely and cause NO bind. 
Thanks for the info Brent! :)
Title: Re: Trail Tough Products has NEW Spartan Lockers for the Suzuki Samurai!!
Post by: djlantis57 on April 29, 2011, 05:03:50 PM
What would be the advantage of this when there is a kit already available by Lock Rite?
I want to lock the rear soon...preferably while I'm doing rear axle work soon.  Isn't the Spartan just like the Lock Rite and the Detroit that used to be available?  Same basic principle of operation, but is there something different about the Spartan?
Title: Re: Trail Tough Products has NEW Spartan Lockers for the Suzuki Samurai!!
Post by: wildgoody on April 30, 2011, 07:37:12 AM
I saw one of these at the ZW BBQ in Moab, the design is similar, but
there is a set of really beefy pins that I have never seen on another
locker, and those pins, when they break, stop the locker from working.

I'm going to try these as soon as I'm ready to setup some new diffs

Wild
Title: Re: Trail Tough Products has NEW Spartan Lockers for the Suzuki Samurai!!
Post by: djlantis57 on June 15, 2011, 11:43:58 AM
I saw one of these at the ZW BBQ in Moab, the design is similar, but
there is a set of really beefy pins that I have never seen on another
locker, and those pins, when they break, stop the locker from working.

I'm going to try these as soon as I'm ready to setup some new diffs

Wild
Wild,
sounds interesting.
But, again, what would be the advantage of using a Spartan, modified to fit in a Tracker housing, rather than a LockRight that is manufactured for a Tracker? 
It might be best for me to just call Brent at TT to ask his opinion, but does anyone on this board know the advantage?
Title: Re: Trail Tough Products has NEW Spartan Lockers for the Suzuki Samurai!!
Post by: Jonny Rash on June 16, 2011, 07:06:11 AM
Probably no advantage, other than the lower price of the Spartan locker.  To me, the design was nearly identical. 
Title: Re: Trail Tough Products has NEW Spartan Lockers for the Suzuki Samurai!!
Post by: wildgoody on June 16, 2011, 08:08:19 AM
The larger pins would be the advantage, the Lock-right has about a 1/4" pin
and these looked like ohh, 5/16 or perhaps a little larger, and the lower price
is never a bad thing, so long as the quality is there, if it is junk, then it's not
worth Monopoly money

Wild
Title: Re: Trail Tough Products has NEW Spartan Lockers for the Suzuki Samurai!!
Post by: Jonny Rash on June 16, 2011, 11:17:38 AM
Yeah, but I think the stock axles are weaker than the lock-rite pins already.  That is, I've seen many an axle chewed up before the locker pins broke.
Title: Re: Trail Tough Products has NEW Spartan Lockers for the Suzuki Samurai!!
Post by: wildgoody on June 17, 2011, 08:36:36 AM
Well, ya that might be true, but that's not what the pins are there for, and
they take a lot of abuse with all the banging the lockers do.

Remember my brothers white 4 door on Top Of The World trail when we
broke the drivers side rear axle? well a few weeks later we pulled it apart
and found several broken pins in his locker, as well as the grenaded shaft
and busted up 5.62s gears  :'( :'( :'(
Title: Re: Trail Tough Products has NEW Spartan Lockers for the Suzuki Samurai!!
Post by: Drone637 on June 17, 2011, 01:09:26 PM
BRD HNTR was wondering what the end result was from that.  Can you get the gears re-welded or are they to far gone?
Title: Re: Trail Tough Products has NEW Spartan Lockers for the Suzuki Samurai!!
Post by: Jonny Rash on June 17, 2011, 01:51:48 PM
Yeah, I tweaked an axle housing, twisted an axle, and broke a pin on Pritchett Canyon.  Stuff happens.

Drone-from the pics, they looked like toast.
Title: Re: Trail Tough Products has NEW Spartan Lockers for the Suzuki Samurai!!
Post by: Jonny Rash on June 17, 2011, 01:53:55 PM
Your brother's wasn't even making near as much noise as mine was.  At least from my vantage point.  I was really surprised that the r&p was damaged.
Title: Re: Trail Tough Products has NEW Spartan Lockers for the Suzuki Samurai!!
Post by: wildgoody on June 17, 2011, 07:43:27 PM
I thought that at the right shop the gears could repaired, are you interested???
because I know the front is fine, and I,m sure he would like to sell the set, he
is collecting parts to do a SAS into the trucklet, and allready got the axles from
Gil up there in St. George

Wild
Title: Re: Trail Tough Products has NEW Spartan Lockers for the Suzuki Samurai!!
Post by: darnold87 on June 23, 2011, 11:44:02 AM
I posted in another thread... I'm having a hard time dialing in the Spartan in a '94 Sidekick rear end.
I'm using this locker as I was the guy in Moab at the ZW raffle that one the locker.
The pins are hug, but they are hollow to encase the springs...
Here's more info on my situation if interested:

http://www.zukiworld.com/forum/technical-discussion-performance-modify/spartan-locker/ (http://www.zukiworld.com/forum/technical-discussion-performance-modify/spartan-locker/)