I did this on my old VW Thing. The steering brakes allowed me to lock up the left or right brake, which then got the rig to "walk" through most mucky situations. Since it was a mechanical arrangement, it ended up stretching the brake cables. A hydraulic arrangement would be better. I'd rather have a true LSD setup with a locker. On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Edward Maglott <emaglott3@gmail.com> wrote: > I was thinking the other day about those dune buggy emergency brake > handles you could get that let you apply braking to one rear wheel > or the other. Seems like this could be a good addition to the 2wd > vanagon. Seems like I get stuck so easy when one wheel is on wet > grass or something, and the other could get good traction if only it > would try. Not a LS by any means but probably *a little* > cheaper... Anybody ever done this? > Edward >
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