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Thanks, this is interesting... (archive)

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Posted by Zandr on June 18, 2000 at 14:38:54:

In Reply to: BMW bulletin re: M coupe Torsen posted by Michael W on June 18, 2000 at 11:02:26:

(posted from: prometheus.milewski.org (205.179.172.200))

: Found this after a bit of searching around...

Now I wonder if Dinan is the clueless party here, having lifted a wheel, turned it freely (as you can with a Torsen) and decided that the diff was open.

That's actually one of the limitations of the Torsen, if there's zero resistance on one wheel, it just spins. It takes a little traction on one wheel to get the torque to transfer to the other.

Thanks for digging this up.

-Zandr

Ditto - thanks! (eom) Norm 16:00 6/18/2000 (0)

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