So initially the rear diff lock seemed a little hard to disengage. Not particularly disconcerting as rear lockers can be hard to disengage at times. Then, I got off the trails in Moab and was like wow, that was brutal today getting it unlocked. One evening I grabbed the head mechanic for Warner Ineos to take him back to the shop and check a few things, we started turning off the highway and the rear diff locked solid and the dash of course lit up. We looked at each other like what in the hell was that, that cannot happen! We spent the entire night testing it over and over, and on another test drive it did it again, although came out easier. We tested it over and over and it would be incredibly hard to unlock most of the time, although it did properly work twice. We even jacked it up in a crazy, sketchy manner and could not get it too unlock off the ground. Not much you can read with the Ineos software as most is locked up for engineers only, which is very frustrating. IE: Cannot see switch actuations, wheel speed sensor data ect. We swapped sensors, checked everything we could, and inspected the oil which looked like new, not much metal on the magnet. The other thing is unlocking the center diff should definitely unlock the rear, and it would not. We discovered punching the gas forwards and backwards over and over can eventually coax it out. Then on the last trail, Poison I began to establish new protocols, getting it unlocked earlier(violently) and out of low range to lower tension. Hans Peter and I discussed it over and over on the trails, and we decided it had to be mechanical in nature, not electronic. Back in Silverton Colorado I towed my camper up our steep entry hill after Moab and it attempted to lock as I got on the pavement, I did have it in low range, but rear locker off. Now I realized no way this problem is going away. The drive shaft fell apart on a bump on the way home towing. I drove it to Red Noland and its like no one would communicate, they could not see a problem. Then a week later, BAM it locked up for a bit on pavement as they were test driving it thank goodness. They called and said, engineers say change the oil.....I am like nope, that aint going to do it and we did that at 2:30AM in Moab already and still keeps doing it. Essentially low range or using the locker makes it vulnerable to engage on the road as it seems to build up some tension. So something in the actuator is wonky. To be clear, I don't see this becoming a trend at this point, I think I just got unlucky.
