FMTV with lockers?

[four_by_ken]

Do the FMTV trucks come with lockers?

 

[ICAT]

No they do not. It would cool but no

 

[four_by_ken]

No they do not. It would cool but no

Wonder why. The axles were offered with a limited slip option and also a full locker option.
I would think that at least a limited slip would come into play as a benefit in the military trucks.

 

[four_by_ken]

I still find this hard to believe... really no lockers in the military for these trucks?

Guess I will be welding the difs up!

 

[fuzzytoaster]

Lockers are too expensive for these trucks.

 

[Westech]

well look at the deuces.. 99.9999999% of them are all open diffs along with the 5 ton. Lockers you brake things.

 

[four_by_ken]

Lockers are too expensive for these trucks.

Yeah, $100,000 truck and they wont put $1500 of lockers in them.

well look at the deuces.. 99.9999999% of them are all open diffs along with the 5 ton. Lockers you brake things.

The difference lockers makes is completely worth the chances of breakage. If anyone disagrees with this... they dont understand, so I wont even start arguing the point.

 

[Westech]

well unless your a government buyer.... I don't think your complaining is going to do anything.

 

[four_by_ken]

well unless your a government buyer.... I don't think your complaining is going to do anything.

This thread is not here to complain... it was to find out if it was an option since the axles were offered with traction aids available. And since these axles were mostly sold to the military, I would assume they would have used them.

I am not allowed to disagree (and express) with a decision of the military to not buy them?

 

[saddamsnightmare]

October 15th, 2010.


Gents:

Just my worth....

I am not sure that lockers would do all that much for the FMTV's, given who or what might be driving them, under what conditions of service....? It's easier to pull a truck out with a wrecker or another truck, then it is to repair an axle under battlefield conditions.
I am pretty impressed with the S404.114 Unimog I have with mechanically locked hubs, BUT, BUT, BUT... YOU can stick even a Unimog, then you are in a mell of a hess to get it out.
The U1300L's are a better truck, pound for pound then the FMTV's, but Uncle rarely picks the best truck for the job, just the cheapest. I believe that even an upgraded 2-1/2 ton or 5 ton G742 or G744 series truck would have been a better deal then what we have, as the two older designs did have a reputation for durability under combat conditions....
Up-Armor an FMTV after it's built, you will come very close to overloading the front anxle. Up armor a 2-1/2 or 5 ton? The truck can still haul somewhat of a payload. Not based on my engineering background, which I don't have, just observation and knowing what the older girls did for Uncle in so many places.... I put my money on Unimogs and Deuces....
But, other then that, it IS just an opinion offered in good humor...

 

[flighht2k5]

well look at the deuces.. 99.9999999% of them are all open diffs along with the 5 ton. Lockers you brake things.

Unimogs come with lockers and they don't break