</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">Originally posted by sveltax:
<strong>I currently have a 2wd Axiom and would like to improve my offroad traction. I've already upgraded my tires and have a 3" lift. Will a rear locker or LSD help my offroad traction?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">While I agree with the above that either an LSD or locker will help somewhat, I also just wanted to confirm that a 2wd vehicle with a locker is just not as good as an open 4wd vehicle. Even though there may be a rare situation where a locked 2wd vehicle will win the day over an open 4x4, it's very rare. And the lack of a low range is killer too.

We met some people in Moab once for some early year wheeling, and after a few hours of wheeling discovered that we didn't have front wheel drive anymore. Couldn't find the parts to fix it locally, but decided that since we have an ARB rear and always have 2 tires pushing we're as good as an open diff 4x4 so we'll just continue with wheeling.

Well ... after quickly embarassing ourselves and being unable to make it up easy climbs (which admittedly did have light snow on them) that stock vehicles were making effortlessly, we turned around and struggled back to pavement.

Instead of trying to off-road a really nice 2wd vehicle like you own, you might be better off spending the $$ on an old 4wd vehicle (seen some great deals on 1st gen amigii) that you keep just for fun.

Just my .02. If you're committed to wheeling the 2wd, though, you will definitely get some good benefit from either locker or LSD.