what gears do i have??
10-25-2007, 10:27 PM
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what gears do i have??
i know this has been posted so many times but i forgot and i cant find the post again so yea sorry guys.the number thingy is g285 i know that g stands for 8" and thats all i know. i think i read some where that um the 5 meens 4 pinion lsd?? but im not sure thanks guys hehe
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10-25-2007, 11:01 PM
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Nah... I'd like a LSD on my 4Runner, cuz I don't need locked all the time, I just need some torque transfer from the wheel that slips to the wheel that grips, not the other way around. I don't think I could afford a "Lincoln Locker"
10-25-2007, 11:05 PM
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There was a way of spining the tires with the rear end jacked up, cant remember much about it though.. I dont know too much about limited slip diffs
10-25-2007, 11:09 PM
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yea lift it up and if they both spin the same way its supose to be lsd but wen i lose traction on one wheel the one that has traction is not spinning?
10-25-2007, 11:11 PM
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hmm, well try this. find an open gravel parking lot and do some donuts.
If your arse end REALLY whips around then you have a LSD if not... then you have an open diff
If your arse end REALLY whips around then you have a LSD if not... then you have an open diff
10-25-2007, 11:12 PM
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With a limited slip - jack up the tires on the end with the LSD. If you can stop one tire from spinning fairly easily it is an LSD (IIRC). To engage the LSD like a locker when one of the tires lifts of the ground while wheeling) or when testing on jack stands. Apply brake while applying gas. You should have a much harder time stopping one of the tires, though not nearly as hard of a time if it were locked.
Basically when doing this brake trick while wheeling you fool your LSD into being 3/5 of a locker. Meaning you have 3/5th the power to both wheels that you would have with a full locker with one wheel off the ground. Not an ideal situation but better than no locker...
I have a LSD in my front (it was there when I bought it) and with the wheeling I do I have to use the brake gas trick all the time. It does work, but I am just waiting for my front ring and pinion too grenade so I can get a real locker in the front!
Hope that helps... and if I am not totally right on this theory about the LSD someone chime in....
Basically when doing this brake trick while wheeling you fool your LSD into being 3/5 of a locker. Meaning you have 3/5th the power to both wheels that you would have with a full locker with one wheel off the ground. Not an ideal situation but better than no locker...
I have a LSD in my front (it was there when I bought it) and with the wheeling I do I have to use the brake gas trick all the time. It does work, but I am just waiting for my front ring and pinion too grenade so I can get a real locker in the front!
Hope that helps... and if I am not totally right on this theory about the LSD someone chime in....
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10-25-2007, 11:33 PM
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X2 on the donuts thing. I CAN NOT do donuts, unless it's fully icy(which happens every year here, but only a couple times). I have open diffs, if you can do donuts, then you probably have LSD. By the way, for some reason, I don't find locker donuts that satisfying. It's just too easy, and too perfect of a circle. I like some challenge, and some slop in my donuts, but NOT the 35 MPH circles that my 4Runner does so nicely with the open diffs. But that's just me.
