Nice to see...

[Warren]

I was hinting at the quality of engineering rather than cost.

Welding up a diff so that it a solid axle (all the time) to me shows a lack of understanding.

And if that is an idicator, then what other "outside the box" thinking and engineering has been done.

Just My $0.02

Warren

[Bedfordcrazy]

I guess there would have to be an easy answer there, if it is registered, you would have to think that a qualified engineer would of signed off on things like that.
You know more than i do, so tell me this, is it legal or not to weld the gears up, or is it safer to go diff lockers ? I have seen lots of cases of people welding the gears in dirt racing cars, so i assumed it was the go.

george.

[Bas NZ]

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And a project for someone.........

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And another project

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[ben]

is it legal or not to weld the gears up,

no way! instant yellow canary:) ive never been in a car with the diff welded up but i know the car wont wanna turn corners without drifting! so its a big no no george

[Bedfordcrazy]

Thanks benny, that explains why dirt track racers weld them, to help slide round the track.

george.

[Warren]

I guess there would have to be an easy answer there, if it is registered, you would have to think that a qualified engineer would of signed off on things like that.
You know more than i do, so tell me this, is it legal or not to weld the gears up, or is it safer to go diff lockers ? I have seen lots of cases of people welding the gears in dirt racing cars, so i assumed it was the go.

george.

The van your talking about is an AMERICAN van - in America, and they have very loose regs compared to us.

As Benny says it would have to be a sick bird (ill eagle)

The idea of a limited slip diff is to keep power to the driving wheel, in the case of a normal diff if one wheel breaks traction it just spins faster and takes more of the power (path of least resistance), with a LSD it see's the large variation in axle speeds (when on side breaks loose) and applys a breaking force to that wheel transfering the power over to the one with the traction.

Welding the spider gears means that both axles rotate at the same speed no matter whats happening.
This may be OK for offroad and racers but not for passanger vehicles they would tent to under steer to bugu ry

Warren