RE: RE: Is my LSD broke?

From: Bernd D. Ratsch (bernd@dodgetrucks.org)
Date: Mon Mar 30 2009 - 17:02:22 EDT


You're bored....or seriously medicated. :P

- Bernd

-----Original Message-----
From: bocd@optonline.net [mailto:bocd@optonline.net]
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 3:52 PM
To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
Subject: Re: DML: RE: Is my LSD broke?

when you look up in the sky are the trees and clouds very sharply outlined?

is your heart racing?

are you feeling jacked up?

are you hearing your colors?

if yes.....your lsd is working fine..

if not take 2 hits tomorrow instead of one :o)

someone had to do it.....well mighta well been me right?

haha

bob

In article <001801c9b171$8ca404f0$65b1fd0a@mhdcjgt.local>,
bernd@dodgetrucks.org ("Bernd D. Ratsch") writes:
>
>
> The LSD (Trac-Lok) diffs are designed to give power to the wheel with
> the most traction. The slipping wheel won't get much power to prevent
> slipping
> (hence: Anti-Spin).
>
> You can, however, get the diff to lock by lightly applying the brakes
> while moving.
>
> One thing though...if the clips in the clutch pack break (which
> happens quite often on the 9.25" diffs), you'll also get the same
> symptoms like you are describing.
>
> - Bernd
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Gersic [mailto:info@zaccaria-pinball.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 2:30 PM
> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> Subject: DML: Is my LSD broke?
>
>
> I got stuck in the snow yesterday. One problem was that the 4WD is
> dead, but I'm pretty sure that that's an electrical issue. But the LSD
> isn't electrical.
>
> What we got, starting Saturday afternoon was rain, changing over to
> sleet and freezing rain, changing over to snow overnight. By Sunday
> morning, what was on the ground was about 1" of watery slush topped
> with 6-7" of snow. The air temp was just below freezing, so the snow was
the heavy wet stuff.
>
> I backed out of the driveway ok and swung around to about a 45 degree
angle.
>
> Put the truck in 1st, and stuck there. If I gave it any gas, one wheel
> or the other would spin, and the whole truck would slide sideways down
> the road crown toward the curb, but no forward motion at all. I could
> even spin one wheel by just putting it in 1st gear (manual trans) and
> letting in the clutch.
>
> With an LSD (confirmed both by the "Trac Loc" sticker on the rear
> axel, and the "spin the wheels by hand" test, shouldn't I have been
> getting power to the non-turning wheel, rather than just spinning the one
that's slipping?
>
> Is there a minimum torque that the spinning wheel has to have applied
> to get the clutches to engage on the other (non-spinning) wheel?
>
> This stuff was slippery enough that I could push the rear end of the
> truck sideways by myself. I did this to get it closer to straight,
> shoveled out the rear wheels, and got about 5' further down the street
> before sliding sideways to the curb again. It took four attempts like
> this just to get moving forward with any momentum.
>
>
>



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