[Shotimes] OT - Preload on a LSD

[Mike Kopstain]

> Sounds like its a real clutch diff.  IPT advertised their diff as one,
> but the clutch faces were the actual diff housings.

One has to wonder the level of engineering that went into this design.  I
have the unit out of Shawn Pailey's old car sitting here and it's grenaded
good.  I'm not sure how you could ever have built this and expected it to
last.

~ Mike

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Murray" <fordsho@cloud9grafx.com>
To: "'Paul L Fisher'" <sho@paul-fisher.com>; "SHOTimes"
<shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 10:45 AM
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] OT - Preload on a LSD


> Sounds like its a real clutch diff.  IPT advertised their diff as one,
> but the clutch faces were the actual diff housings.  A real one has many
> plates with different textures on each side.  Depending on what side the
> disks are touching eachother on, they grab eachother with the aid of the
> diff fluid and prevent slipping.  Many aftermarket diffs for RWD imports
> and some domestics are like this.  If you can buy new clutch disks for
> your car, it might be a pretty good idea, just remember they do need to
> be rebuilt after a certain amount of miles (~50k), but it depends on the
> use it gets.  Research it some more first and make sure thats actually
> what you are getting, and check and see what the actual diff life is and
> how frequent the clutches need to be replaced and rebuilt.
>
> Bill Murray
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul L Fisher [mailto:sho@paul-fisher.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 10:23 AM
> To: shotimes@autox.team.net; v8sho@v8sho.com
> Subject: [Shotimes] OT - Preload on a LSD
>
> OK. My Jetta TDI has a LSD but it is very lightly set, something like
> 2%.
> There are kits available that change the shims so that you can bump it
> up to
> 40% or 80%. I am thinking of doing this but I don't want to toast my
> diff.
> Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Is this how the Phantom grip
> works?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Paul L Fisher
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