What the hell just happened????
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I just set up my rear suspension and went out for a play, the car wasnt feeling to bad, so i went on the long route around the playboy mansion....

changing into fourth gear the car wheelspinned, "crikey" i thought, and then started slowing down from 156mph for the junction (the speedo over reads!!) however i over shot the junction with a massive amount of brake fade

I then reversed back for it, turned in, and the car just wanted to go straight on, even when i applied more lock it couldnt make it round.

Eventually i got round, and checked over it and everything seems fine, it even drove back ok

What happened? are they all related? is any of this atb related?

splines gone on rack?

i'm guessing that somehow the diff has become locked up momentarily causing both wheel to turn at the same speed[ no differential action] and resulting in cronic understeer, at slow speed,
has it ever happened before, NO , so of course its ATB related, its called runnnig an LSD, get used to it ,lol.

and stop jumping up and down in disco's

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Yikes, this diff is going to take some getting used to i think, though i suppose i went from hard on the power to hard braking

Ill have a check of the rack tomorrow

it was the other carls fault-he kept telling me to jump

Edited by fastcarl on 10th Aug, 2007.

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WTF are you asking? That the brake fade is related???

Confused!!!!

The ATB in my 205 has never done anything like that, it has always behaved impeccably, you can push it around on full lock no problem, unlike the don with its salisbury, which is a swine to push with any kind of lock applied.

no, my main concern was the fact it wouldnt turn in, but i thought id paint the whole picture incase it made any difference

My initial thought was that a cv may of broken, but a quick check over suggests that everything is fine

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I don't like the sound of this... I've always said the only LSD I'd use is a Quaife - but this is not what i want at all.

I'd try and repeat it - maybe just find some gravel to get it to ' lock' on, then try reversing on lock again?

ie - I'm not telling you to go fast :)

Never had anything like that with my quaife diff, always been easy peasy to drive.

im with fastcarl, as in it sound slike the diff locked momentarily, although i thought the quaifes cant?

I was under the impression that by design a quaife can only give 4 times as much torque to one wheel than the other, hence why it needs both wheels on the ground?

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

so does that mean youre fucked on bumpy roads when you are caining it?

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Certainly sounds like the diff locked after the heavy braking which would explain why it would not go round the corner.

The inner wheel was rotating at the same speed as the outer, so even though the tyres were turned in the car was trying to go straight ahead.

Could it be that the 4mm has taken up all the clearance and the braking pushed the output shaft into the diff causing the problem - just a thought.

Saul Bellow - "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
Stephen Hawking - "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

Well, They come with a liftime guarantee - So hopefully if there is a problem with your unit, there won't be any issues in swapping it.
Thankfully, it didn't take long to fit it?

had you have broke ure speed down at the correct point, and selected ure gear for the bend.......tish these drivers today psml !!

LSD syndrome used to have to fight with my car when i had the salisbury lsd in sweating like a peado in a pampers testing site.

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following on from you other thread on fitting it Nic...

Could it be that the diff is shimmed on the wrong side moving the diff to far one way, thus causing the driveshaft to bottom out in the pot joint and cause the diff to do wierd shit?

i was wondering if my shimming could have something to do with it....

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err :$, ahem :$ , ive found the problem to the car being a bit lively on changing road surfaces :$ :$ :$ :$ :$

some retard forgot to tighten up the ball joints :$ :$ :$ :$ :$

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now i just need to try and see if i can get it to lock again

What a twat :$

LOL!

You great pillock!

** Runs to the garage to check his balljoints***

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"YOU PRICK!!!"
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Back once again like a renegade master

In the words of our Adam
"YOU PRICK!!!"
LOL

Back once again like a renegade master

In the words of our Adam
"YOU PRICK!!!"
LOL

Back once again like a renegade master

In the words of our Adam
"YOU PRICK!!!"
LOL

Back once again like a renegade master