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02 ford fiesta 1.6 spluttering and engine symbol light on.any ideas?
Limited slip, Posi and Posi-traction are the same thing. A locker is not. Limited slips provide a portion of the input they receive from the driveshaft to both wheels rather than just the wheel that's easiest to spin. The amount of of torque they will transfer is based on the amount of spring preload or bias built into the clutch pack of each unit. When the driveshaft turns, and there is equal load on each wheel, then nothing happens and everything turns at the same speed. When one wheel is on wet grass, and the other on dry pavement, the wet wheel will begin to spin, but the dry wheel will receive enough torque from the spring loaded clutch pack in the diff that the car will still be able to get rolling. There are 2 main styles of clutches, plate and cone. Cone will generally be a little tighter, but don't last quite as long under hard use and aren't rebuildable. Plate types hold up longer and are rebuildable if you're so inclined. Either style will do well on a regular street car though. Also, if you change the oil in an LSD, it requires a friction modifier in order to operate smoothly and quietly. So if you have one that's making noise, get that oil out, add the modifier, then top off the diff.HOW TO? I want to change people's brakes in my driveway...?
A Limited slip rear differential will send the rear wheel power to the wheel that has traction...it will alternate wheels in a totally slippery conditionhow do i get them to admit they ruiened my tire and to replace it?
It's a type of differential that gives power to both wheels if one begains to spin.my brakes were changed on my car but now thereis no pressure?
i own a repair shop,and what it means is when one wheel slips the other one will kick in,and get traction,,this is usually applied when talking about rear differentials on a car or a truck,this is what it means and does it takes over when the other one slips,,good luck hope this help,s.happy new years.Limited slip is generally associated with Posi-Traction. There is a clutch in the differential between the two axles and when you are going around a turn the clutch slips preventing the inside wheel from sliding. It also prevents the wheel with the least traction from spinning. It does have one drawback. In winter on a slippery turn you could slid out of control, especially if the turn is not level.
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Limited slip differentials use a set of clutches to apply equal torque to both axles only during acceleration, and then while decelerating and turning the clutches release their tension and allow the rear wheels to travel at slightly different speedOpen differentials apply power to to the axles, but generally only one wheel.
"Lockers" have a device to do just what the name implies. They lock both axles and make turning corners difficult, as the rear wheels tend to skip, and "chirp" over the road surface.
one wheel will catch before the other wheel.
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Limited slip does not simply mean "power from the wheels that slip to the ones that grip". I'm going to go into a bit of detail so hopefully you can follow, or you already understand some of this.Generally, "limited slip" refers to some device that transfers power to more than one wheel and prevents slipping, usually through the differential. The differential is the device that splits the power to the wheels on the drive axle (front or rear, ie front wheel drive car, front axle is the drive axle). This is because each wheel must spin at slightly different speads when you turn. When you make a left turn, the inside wheels (drivers side) must spin slower than the outside (passenger side). This is because the inside wheels are on a smaller arc and don't travel as far as the outside wheels. This difference in speed must be accounted for, which is what the differential does. If the engine turned each wheel equally the car would have a hard time turning.
An "open" differential allows the engine to only provide power to one wheel which spins in relationship to how fast the engine spins it. The other wheel can free spin at whatever speed needed. The power wheel and free spinning wheel can alternate or the power can be shared between the two, but if one wheel does not get traction, it will spin wildly with the engines full power. The other wheel is held by traction and since both wheels aren't locked together the one that can slip, will.
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Generally this is ok because each tire on the drive axle will have enough traction to move the vehicle unless you are on slippery ice or mud. It generally only takes one wheel to be powered to move the vehicle. Obviously you don't want one wheel being able to spin without the other if you are on slippery surfaces. It only takes one wheel being on a slippery surface and you are going nowhere.
help the brakes in my car.....whats wrong with them??
The solution to this is a "limited slip" device (differential). The differential has springs and clutches or a hydrolic device that keeps power transfering to both wheels on the axle. It also allows for some slipping so that when you go around a corner it slips a little so each wheel can rotate at different speeds. They aren't perfect depending on the design, but limited slip can provide power to both wheels on the drive axle so that if one wheel isn't getting traction, the wheel that is getting traction can move the vehicle.
This is slightly different than "transferring power from the wheels that slip to the wheels that grip." In reality you are just providing power to both wheels on the drive axle. There are systems that improve on this, called "ESP" and "traction control" etc. They can brake each wheel individually so that if one wheel starts slipping, it applies the brake to that wheel only to prevent it from spinning. This helps transfer some of the power to the other wheels which may get traction. Also traction control will generally cut the power output of the engine to help keep wheels from spinning.
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All of these devices are just doubled, or coupled together for 4 wheel drive or all wheel drive vehicles.
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