At 08:24 AM 1/11/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Not to dispute you Bob,
Ah, go ahead Jason. You know that I'm senile and forgetful.
>but I've personally never experienced this with
>our '98 V8 4x4 with LSD. I have experienced some fishtailing with the
>'95 V6 4x4 with no LSD. What seems to happen is that one wheel starts
>to spin and loses lateral stability, which makes the whole rear end
>squirrely.
Okay, that makes sense.
>Of course, the '95 is a 5-speed. I'm sometimes less than smooth with
>the clutch if I'm driving quickly. The example that sticks out in my
>mind was a few months ago in the rain. I was accelerating to get on the
>highway, and when I shifted the rear end lost traction and did a bit of
>fishtailing. Maybe it *is* just me :-).
Well, I did follow you back from Carlisle last year (j/k).
What was in my mind when I wrote that was the many times that I've come
out of the touchless car wash and, while making a turn, it did not take
much pedal to make the tail swing out and back the other way again, and
also when making a turn after a stop sign on wet roads ... conditions
very similar and common during the winter ... both rears rotating
equally at the same rate but the inside tire going a lesser distance
and loosing traction at a different rate than the outside one.
Bob. Southern Ontario, Canada.
'97 Dakota CC Sport, FR, 5.2L, 3.55 SG, auto.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Jun 20 2003 - 11:46:36 EDT