phantom grip diffs

[treed2 at u.washington.edu (T. Reed)]

Scott,

If I understand the quaife/peloquin torsen diffs correctly, they replace
the part of the stock diff that would normally accept the shim kit. So
there would be nowhere to install the shims on a quaife-equipped tranny.

A simpler solution to the quaife problem is just to apply slight brake
pressure if you ever get one front wheel off the ground. That should be
enough to get torque transferred to the most-grippy wheel (ie. the one
that is touching the ground) and get you moving again.

-Toby

On Sat, 17 May 2003, Scott F. Williams wrote:

> Hey, I'll just throw this out there for yuz to chew on: It seems to me that
> the ultimate limited slip set up should be the Peloquin unit with the shim
> kit simultaneously installed. The Peloquin duplicates the Quaife's
> performance and is functionally equivalent. Thus, it requires a bit of grip
> on *both* tires in order for it to function. This is often a problem to
> maintain while rallying as we're often airborne or lose tires, etc).
>
> However, the Peloquin diff also permits fitment of the shim kit which, if I
> understand correctly how it works, should lock both sides together at low
> torque applications. Thus, you'd get limited slip action all the time. Maybe
> one of the diff experts can debabelize what I just tried to say and share
> some solid info.
> :^)
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> Scott F. Williams
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