whats the quickest way to tell if a car has an lsd box?

[phatman3801]

is there a way to tell if a car has lsd apart frm trans codes etc?

[Carlos]

Jack the car up, put it in neutral, turn 1 wheel by hand - the other wheel should spin the same direction. This works on a rwd - dunno about fwd

[Dell'Orto]

Or put one wheel on your lawn, the other on your drive way, and sidestep the clutch at 6 grand

[pervert]

Yeah, just do a skid...

[blackie]

skiddies
a lot of cars u can look at the transaxle code on the firewall to tell, although older cars could have had replacement gearboxes put in

[Distrb]

Jack the car up, put it in neutral, turn 1 wheel by hand - the other wheel should spin the same direction. This works on a rwd - dunno about fwd

that only works if you have a viscous type doesnt it?

as with a plate/torsen type you need drive to tighten the plates in order for the lsd to work.

coz i can jack up the rear of one of gadgets rz supras (with torsen lsd) and turn one wheel and the other wheel stays static or turns the opposite way

Or put one wheel on your lawn, the other on your drive way, and sidestep the clutch at 6 grand

i reccomend this method for sure make sure theres no fences/bushes or houses in the way tho

[Bling]

yeah and results will be as follows:

just a brown skid where grass used to reside: non-LSD

same brown skid as above + bonus black skid on concrete = LSD

dilma: do try it

[CEvans]

just gas it off an intersection in the wet. u shud b able to feel both whells spining and not loose too much traction plus a non lsd will lite up easily while corning too.
best idea of all the is the grass one.

[fangsport]

yeah and results will be as follows:

just a brown skid where grass used to reside: non-LSD

same brown skid as above + bonus black skid on concrete = LSD

dilma: do try it

what about the brown skid in ya Jockey juniors when the fence attacks ya??

[phatman3801]

ive also been told jack the car up, put in neutral, sum1 hold one wheel and sum else try to turn the other wheel, if lsd the guy trying to turn the other wheel will be able to, if no lsd when the guy trys to turn the wheel he will hav to fight against the other guy holding the wheel, is that right???this is what a mate has told me

[fx gt]

nah,just do a big skid,if some one complains it was Mmm, Boost's folt

[phatman3801]

already been done for "loss of traction" resulting in losing licence:P plus its not my car so beeta not

[CozmoNz]

put it nose first into a ditch, with 3 wheels in the air, one hard down in the ditch.

If you can reverse out, Its lsd
If you only spin the outside wheel, its not .

thus, my trueno is lsd!

[Bling]

u got photos of it with 3 wheels in the air.... or can u do a 'paint' version, sounds almost impossible to do sounds interesting tho

[CozmoNz]

as you can see, the car is "nose first" into the bank, with the arse end up, there is a ditch, in which the car went down into first, before plouging itself *up* (i guess it did a wee hop off the ridge into the bank).

but people leaning on the boot / rear, and me reversing, it drove right out.

[Bling]

daaamn

good effort to get out of that,

and good stuff with the image too

[KinLoud]

My understanding of a torsen diff...
If one driven wheel is not touching the ground then there will be no torque transmitted to the other wheel.
The torsen (i think) transfers 5(?) times the torque to the non slipping wheel. So if wheel in air, torque = 0 ...... 5 times 0 = 0
On grass - you will get torque transferred to other wheel, but not heaps
On tarmac loads of torque transferred = happy driver

Ken
Ham
021 408 863

[levin_it_large]

i thought levins had a viscous LSD.

[CozmoNz]

they do

the likes of late model supras (mk4 styles) etc have them.

[sergei]

late model supra is torsen