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Re: [GMCnet] Limited Slip Differential [message #238106 is a reply to message #238030] Thu, 30 January 2014 11:54 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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And the below is why I was hoping to find something simular to the ARB Air locker that have a switch on the dash, just turn it on when needed and have an regular open diff at all other times.

Bob de Kruyff wrote on Thu, 30 January 2014 03:44

""You do not want a locker in the front.
Short Story Time ......
My father bought a 1966 Jeep Wagoneer. Manual trans, V-8 (AMC 327) and with lockers in both ends. It was delivered that way. Because we had a few Jeeps, my father knew that one should lock the front hubs during break-because you needed to break-in the front differential as well. He got out in the parking lot and locked both hubs (Kelly not Warn) and went to pull out of the lot. There was a hole in the traffic and he fired into it expecting to turn left. It didn't. It jerked the steering straight and that blew one of the power steering hoses. He ended up driving over the divider and into the parking lot across the road. When he was there again to pickup repaired vehicle, he was shown a manufacture's service note about just this very subject.

Matt""

LSD's in FWD cars are mild when it comes to limiting speed differentials. FDW is very sensitive to any tendency to control the natural action of the differential. When we first brought out the 1980 X cars, we welded the diffs so that we could run them on 2 wheels for PR purposes. One of our drivers suffered a broken arm when the steering violently whipped back to the straight ahead position. Modern electronic LSD's make it much more viable for FWD.



1973 23' # 1848 Sky Blue Glacier called Baby Blue and a 1973 26'-3 # 1460 Parrot green Seqouia Known as the Big Green, And sold my 1973 26'-2 # 581 White Canyon lands under the name Dobbelt trøbbel in Norway
 
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