P500 Who wants a diff. Lock ?

[Bastardchild]

If anyone is going to benefit from a locker , it's you. Your type of riding will really test this thing........I am looking forward to your thoughts on the locker once you test it out.

BTW , put the welder away , it won't be to much longer and I think we should have us a locker !

Lol, yes sir! Consider the welder put away

 

[Admin]

 

[scottn57]

All right guys, I got an updated timeline from torq masters for you.

As some of you know the hold up right now is that they are waiting for their broach cutter to arrive. The broach cutter is what cuts the spline for the axels to slide into. My contact said they will have it soon and are scheduled to send out the test lockers in May! That's only a hop, skip, and a jump away! You can figure they will want a good solid three or four weeks of testing done to make sure everything is sound then it will be on to production.

If nothing major comes up during testing, I'm guessing you can expect the locker to be available come July. Plenty of riding season left! (Again this is only a guess on my part so don't quote me on that...lol)

If you guys would like to be added to their notification list so you're alerted to when it becomes available, send an email to [email protected] with "honda wait list" as the subject.

Great news! I can't wait- I just had 2-3 hills on the last ride where the 3 wheel drive stopped me on fresh unpacked trails.

 

[Chooglin]

Just thinking , for those more familiar with the "OLDER" Honda Foreman and Rubicon , what are the chances of the Torq-masters 500 locker working with these two models also , or do these already have lockers ?

 

[lee]

No chance. But it might fit in some of the small cars they sell in Japan (not that that helps us any).

 

[Gassygordo]

Just thinking , for those more familiar with the "OLDER" Honda Foreman and Rubicon , what are the chances of the Torq-masters 500 locker working with these two models also , or do these already have lockers ?

My Rubicon is a 2001 which was full time 4X4, no locker. I did swap out the front drive shaft to a cable opperated sleaved so l can switch to 2X4.

 

[jay_man81]

Great news! I can't wait- I just had 2-3 hills on the last ride where the 3 wheel drive stopped me on fresh unpacked trails.

Same happened to me the other day. I was making a “shortcut” path down over a hill to some trails I ride and got buried in the super soft dirt on one of the trips back up. Partly my fault cause I wasn’t paying attention and went up in low instead of second so I didn’t have the speed I needed and spun the wheels too easy. With a locker probably would have been fine. Can’t wait till it comes out!

 

[Seg]

I was hoping that the field testers would have received it by now

 

[906UP]

I am not surprised it's taking so long, the machine tool, cutter & work holding industries have been swamped the last few years. The economy is doing well and a lot of manufacturers are investing in capitol equipment. The company I work for is over a year out for delivery of new machines(CNC gear grinders) and one of our major suppliers of arbors(Konig) is at 18-24 months, mainly due to Ford & GM. They have purchased all of Konig's capacity for the foreseeable future for their new 9 & 10 speed transmissions. The same goes for broach machines & broach bars, this is specialized equipment and there are only a few manufacturers worldwide who build them and it isn't cheap. Be patient, I give TorqMasters props for being willing to take on this project to start with.

 

[luckymike]

I am not surprised it's taking so long, the machine tool, cutter & work holding industries have been swamped the last few years. The economy is doing well and a lot of manufacturers are investing in capitol equipment. The company I work for is over a year out for delivery of new machines(CNC gear grinders) and one of our major suppliers of arbors(Konig) is at 18-24 months, mainly due to Ford & GM. They have purchased all of Konig's capacity for the foreseeable future for their new 9 & 10 speed transmissions. The same goes for broach machines & broach bars, this is specialized equipment and there are only a few manufacturers worldwide who build them and it isn't cheap. Be patient, I give TorqMasters props for being willing to take on this project to start with.

The whole machining-manufaturing industry is buried in work. they'ed have us working 7 days/wk if they could. All that matters to me is that torqmasters gets it right

 

[trigger]

Construction is the same way right now. The union halls are empty and the millennial's don't want to do this for a living so there is just no one available to hire. In turn, it drives the cost up and you can pretty much name your price right now. If they don't want to pay it, someone else down the street certainly will.

 

[Russ989]

Construction is the same way right now. The union halls are empty and the millennial's don't want to do this for a living so there is just no one available to hire. In turn, it drives the cost up and you can pretty much name your price right now. If they don't want to pay it, someone else down the street certainly will.

@trigger you are absolutely right, we can’t find guys to install water main in my area, they are doing good if they make it a week. I don’t even learn their names anymore, I just say hey you! Pitiful.

 

[906UP]

@trigger you are absolutely right, we can’t find guys to install water main in my area, they are doing good if they make it a week. I don’t even learn their names anymore, I just say hey you! Pitiful.

Getting a little off topic but hey....gotta kill time while we wait for the locker

We have a young'n....24'ish....kid we hired a couple years ago. Our Sr Engineer is friends with his parents, so we hire him fresh out of Comm College, send him to HQ in Switzerland for a YEAR & A HALF!!!!! This dumb sh*t still can't set up, program or even operate a machine. All he wants to do is watch dirtbike videos on his IPhone..... No one wants to work with him anymore, even the Sr Eng that got him the job. We want to fire him but the VP says we have too much time & $$$ invested......WTF?

 

[Russ989]

Getting a little off topic but hey....gotta kill time while we wait for the locker

We have a young'n....24'ish....kid we hired a couple years ago. Our Sr Engineer is friends with his parents, so we hire him fresh out of Comm College, send him to HQ in Switzerland for a YEAR & A HALF!!!!! This dumb sh*t still can't set up, program or even operate a machine. All he wants to do is watch dirtbike videos on his IPhone..... No one wants to work with him anymore, even the Sr Eng that got him the job. We want to fire him but the VP says we have too much time & $$$ invested......WTF?

Rule number one: never recommend anyone for a job. I did it once and it bit me in the a*%.

 

[GRANITE]

I think that the locker can and will help in certain situations however after seeing several fellow members going in mud holes at the takeover I also think it won’t matter if all 4 are spinning and locked....I think once the machine gets high centered on most anything it truly won’t matter.

 

[Dp5hunter]

Excuse the question if someone made it already but how much will eather one of this front luckers cost when ever they bicome poblic. I'm in Venezuela and it's been difficult to keep up with this forum lately.

 

[100Acre]

Construction is the same way right now. The union halls are empty and the millennial's don't want to do this for a living so there is just no one available to hire. In turn, it drives the cost up and you can pretty much name your price right now. If they don't want to pay it, someone else down the street certainly will.

God it's awfully difficult to find good help these days. Living near this bastion of Ashevillians seems like very few want to work and or their work ethics are horrible. I'm wondering how long it'll actually be before we see a working locker hit retail. What I remember reading was that it'd be released this year. Does that mean a designed product or will we see them on our machines this year?

 

[Chooglin]

Excuse the question if someone made it already but how much will eather one of this front luckers cost when ever they bicome poblic. I'm in Venezuela and it's been difficult to keep up with this forum lately.

$429

 

[JWB]

God it's awfully difficult to find good help these days. Living near this bastion of Ashevillians seems like very few want to work and or their work ethics are horrible. I'm wondering how long it'll actually be before we see a working locker hit retail. What I remember reading was that it'd be released this year. Does that mean a designed product or will we see them on our machines this year?

Good Help!?! About 50:1 against! This is completely off topic, but if anyone knows an adult outboard or sterndrive mechanic that wants to live in MD, for the love of God, please send em my way!!! Millennials work? That's a joke... right?

 

[100Acre]

Good Help!?! About 50:1 against! This is completely off topic, but if anyone knows an adult outboard or sterndrive mechanic that wants to live in MD, for the love of God, please send em my way!!! Millennials work? That's a joke... right?

I got a great diesel mechanic buddy that hates his job in Louisiana.

 

[JWB]

I got a great diesel mechanic buddy that hates his job in Louisiana.

Gas only