snow and G80 locker

ace · Post by **ace** » Tue May 31, 2005 10:56 am

For you guys with the G80 locker, how does it react driving in the snow?

coreylubahn · Post by **coreylubahn** » Tue May 31, 2005 12:02 pm

ace wrote:For you guys with the G80 locker, how does it react driving in the snow?

I've never got stuck with mine and frankly I don't put it into 4WD all that often...really deep snow or ice. I like it.

barch97 · Post by **barch97** » Tue May 31, 2005 12:02 pm

I don't know how much of it actually comes from the G80 but, I have never driven a vehicle that handles better in ice/snow conditions.

gocntry · Post by **gocntry** » Tue May 31, 2005 1:20 pm

No Complaints Here Either, Never Had A Problem With Mine (Yet)

Retep · Post by **Retep** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 10:30 am

Mine works as designed. Very pleased....

jeff024 · Post by **jeff024** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:24 pm

no problems here

Steve2003 · Post by **Steve2003** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 7:27 am

I think this is one of the better things that GM has added to our CC's. Here's more info G80

Steve

1337vending · Post by **1337vending** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 2:49 pm

In snow and ice at low speeds the locker works great for me, it's pretty seamless. But in the rain I can feel it engage if the back end starts to break loose, and sometimes it can lock and upset the back and promote a little oversteer. Once you are moving it rarely locks though, but that usually isn't a problem.

coffeedrnkr · Post by **coffeedrnkr** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 8:06 pm

True lockers are hella fun in the snow

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:11 am

Only problem I've ever had with mine has been on snow and ice. Sometimes when I go around a corner from a stop and the inside tire starts to spin, even a little bit, the locker will engage, breaking the other tire lose and around comes the back end of the truck. Once I got used to that it wasn't a problem for me.

JimmyDiamond · Post by **JimmyDiamond** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:13 pm

G80 in my Jimmy works great.

Conman · Post by **Conman** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 6:15 pm

Did you just get snow in May?

No issues here in snow in 4wd. in 2wd it's great for donuts in the snow!

Cheers,
Con

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 6:44 pm

Conman wrote:Did you just get snow in May? No issues here in snow in 4wd. in 2wd it's great for donuts in the snow!

Cheers,
Con

Not to get off the subject but what you need to do is learn to do donuts in the snow while in 4wd. It's a little hard to get them started but really wild once they're going! I haven't tried it in the CC but I had a Ranger 4x4 once that I used to do them in. Sometimes you can almost get the truck spinning on it's axis! It's basically the same thing monster trucks do in free style competition but harder because we don't have the rear steer.

coffeedrnkr · Post by **coffeedrnkr** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 9:52 am

You mean tight donuts like this:

http://www.crazyblaze.com/forum%20post/ ... rdonut.MOV

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:37 am

coffeedrnkr wrote:You mean tight donuts like this:

http://www.crazyblaze.com/forum%20post/ ... rdonut.MOV

Yeah, I like that. I actually saw one, on dry pavement no less, by a Typhoon. The way it was spinning around, you almost couldn't tell which end was doing the sliding. It was insane to watch. It also makes me wonder about our front diffs and maybe we underestimate them a bit. To see one survive that much power, maybe they aren't all that weak?

JimmyDiamond · Post by **JimmyDiamond** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:54 am

coffeedrnkr wrote:You mean tight donuts like this:

http://www.crazyblaze.com/forum%20post/ ... rdonut.MOV

Notice how both back tires are spinning thanks to G80 yet only 1 front is spinning.

I always tell people that a non-locker 4x4 is really only a 4x2 but a 4x4 with a locker is a 4x3.

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 11:06 am

JimmyDiamond wrote:I always tell people that a non-locker 4x4 is really only a 4x2 but a 4x4 with a locker is a 4x3.

That's why I've always wanted to put selectable lockers front and rear but there are no lockers for our fronts and I hear that they couldn't take it anyway.

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