Hey David. Are you sending more of that weather this way :-)
Jim, 91 Dak
Toronto
> From: info@zaccaria-pinball.com
> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> Subject: Re: DML: RE: Is my LSD broke?
> Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 09:50:24 -0500
>
>
> On Tuesday 31 March 2009 12:02 am, Eric wrote:
>> You could try a quicker test and leave the wheel on and put a torque
>> wrench on one of the lug nuts. Keep the wrench at a 90 degree
>> angle from the center-to-lugnut radius.
>
> Ok, so the quick test here with the torque wrench says that the LSD is good. I
> checked both sides, and the clutches break loose around 80 - 90 ft. lbs. on
> both sides. That's not a perfect measurement, since the lugnuts are offset
> from the centre of the axel, but it's close enough that I'm pretty sure that
> they're beyond the minimum of 30 ft. lbs..
>
> Still, it's bugging me that I had one wheel spinning freely with no torque at
> all transfered to the non-spinning wheel. Maybe tapping the brakes would have
> helped encourage the clutches to lock up and start doing their job. The FSM
> does note that with an extreme difference in traction available to the wheels
> that it's possible for one wheel to spin. I guess in this case, since neither
> wheel had any traction, there wasn't enough traction available to get the
> clutches to engage.
>
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