Which rear end to use?

Is the powertrax durable? Since some time back someone told me the chrysler trac loc was not very reliable. Although the powertrax is different in design does look rugged. I went with the auburn gear suregrip unit. Auburn too gets mixed reviews!

Apparently since the redesign a lot of the drivability issue's have been worked out so they are quieter, but a lot of the posts I read on Jeep forums some of them are pushing 400hp through them.
I guess a person would have to accept some of the oddities of it to run one.
Plus you know the marketing isn't going to tell the absolute truth or they wouldn't sell them.:D


The lock right locker is a pretty noisy unit, I have one in my daily driver Cummins powered Dodge W250. As far as being strong, it's held up so far and I don't baby it. It seemed to take a while to "wear in" where it would unlock quite often going around a corner. After about 500 miles it has calmed down a bit but still unlocks occasionally going around a corner. One time it must have unlocked both sides at once because it clanked so loud I thought I broke something, I had to jack the truck up when I got home to make sure one of the axles wasn't snapped in half.
Oh and with 3.55 gears in a dana 70 I had to pull the carrier and take the ring gear off to install locker unit, it wouldn't clear the ring gear going into the differential.
I think for the money one of those locker costs I'd just put some type of limited slip differential in it, they're a little more street friendly.

Depending on what a limited slip costs in your area you may very well be right.
Is your locker the original style, or the updated supposedly "improved" design?