Which year XTerra has lockers.

[Gary Blackman]

I am contemplating an Xterra for moderate fourwheeling. I read an article that the 2001 had eaton lockers with switches on the dash. Is this true, and does this apply to the front and rear diff's. Do the 2002's have eaton lockers? The 2003 seems to have gone to a traction control, is this better or worse than the eatons? Last, what is the gear ratio in the 2001 - 2002 differentials? How about the low ratio in the transfer case?
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Thanks,
Gary

[Schludwiller]

There are no stock lockers in any Xterra. The only locker currently available is the aftermarket ARB one. There have been rumors about Eaton lockers in future models but only OEM I believe.

[OffroadX]

2001 has 4.636 ratio in everything but the bare-bones model which would have 4.363.
For 2002 the V6 got 4.900 gears except the supercharged models kept the 4.636, same for 2003.
Transfer case has been 2.02:1 since 1986.5 for all Nissans.

Brent

[White Xterra 00]

I too have a question about Air Lockers but didn't want to start my own thread. I have a 00 X with RWD. I was wondering If front Air Lockers would help me when I go off-roading b/c the Air Locker gives 100% drive to all four wheels even thought I have a RWD X. Is it something like 4WD? Or not?
Thk

[OffroadX]

You don't have a front differential to put a locker in, so you can at best get pure R2WD where you now have 1WD when the going gets tough (as we 4WD owners really have 2WD at best without lockers).
A locked RWD will do much much better than a non-locked, but it still won't better a non-locked 4WD since you do not have low-range gearing available. The times where a locker is really beneficial are also when low range is also called for.

Brent