xj_shooter

Hello everyone, long time lurker / first time poster here. First of all I would like to say thanks for the great website. I've learned a lot from the posters here.

Now on to my problem, I just finished installing a powertrax no-slip in the front of my xj. It ops checked good but when I pulled it out of the garage I heard a loud pop. I slowly drove it around the parking lot a bit and continued to hear / feel popping. From what I've read the no-slip will have some noise particularly during the break in period, however, it is significantly louder and more violent than what I am accustomed to from the lockrite I have in the rear. Has anyone else experienced this or is something wrong?

biztyke

you should be fine. i installed one in the front of my dad's xj a little while back and we were pretty concerned about how loud the banging/popping was, but after about 100kms of driving it pretty much went away. he's probably put on a good 1500kms now and it is completely silent.

Desert Rat

You used the term violent to describe what the locker was doing. That would lead me to believe somethings wrong.
Although I have no experience with installing one in the front, I have learned a bit about the one I have in the rear. I've had similar symptoms & noises from mine, first when I did'nt have everything lined up right on my initial install and broke one of the active spacers. Second when I got skinny pedal happy in Moab and came down real hard, once again breaking a spacer.
I'm thinking that might be what you have going on, its pretty common.
When installed correctly it should make almost no noise, the only time I hear mine is in corners if I'm on the gas it will make a thump thump thump sound as it disengages. Hope this helps.

2qk4u

Well that may be my problem now also. Within the next week I will be tearing mine down to see what is going on with it. It started making a loud popping and clunking noise also. I'm sure something is wrong in there. It's pretty harsh