Peter:
You have an open differential on your front wheel drive van. You should note
that if you have the engine off and turn one wheel by hand the other will turn
in the opposed direction. Positraction has both wheels engaged and the they
will rotated (in some predetermined percentage) in the same direction. As far
as your differential is concerted, it is doing the right thing. Most cars FWD
and RWD are really OWD (one wheel drive), many so called 4WDs are 2WDs (one side
in the front and one side in the rear). Very few "live axels" in the street
legal world.
Chris Kannan
49 DP CRX (Pam Kannan's pit boy and tire warmer)
Peter Mottaz wrote:
> I have a question for you FWD folks out there. I jacked up my Ford Windstar
> and engaged the transmission. Only the left side turned, the right side
> acted like it wasn't engaged at all - even when I increased RPMs or tried to
> spin it by hand to "get it going". Is this normal for a FWD or is something
> in the tranny/diff broken? There were no abnormal noises.
>
> Please reply privately as I'm on the digest...many thanks in advance.
>
> Pete Mottaz
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