Heavy Steering with my QUAIFE atb diff
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I expected the steering to be heavy ,but not this heavy is this the normal for this diff any info would be great cheers rob

have you done your ball joints up?

sorry nic couldnt resist!

Sure have

Not noticed any difference with mine to be honest.

could it be a diff problem even though its brand new

mine felt normal too

less castor?

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

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

Under normal driving conditions there shouldnt be any difference with the diff. Id check other things that uve had off/ changed

Rick

my camber is quite agressive but it was fine with the other diffs

check trye pressures. and ball joint stiffness.

always looking for them bigger bunches of bannanas

those big ofseted wheels seem to be the point. they're not great with std diff it can only going worse with a torque sensing diff.

Its on 12" wheels now so that is not the issue iknow 13" wheels are a pain ,but thanks for pointing it out anyhow

12 by what,
they can be 12 10 or 13 , if they r'e 6*12 or 6*10 , and largely ofseted troubles stay there

6by 12" and are offset

Edited by ROB1N on 1st Mar, 2008.

offset wheels will be more effort as your dragging them through a wider arc, but i wouldnt have thought changing just the diff would have made the same wheels feel heavier?

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

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

is tehre a chance you have some brakes binding on or an alignment issue which is casueing you to load up the diff even under normal driving!? this ould make the steering heavier as the diff would be partially locked up.

turbo 16v k-series 11.9@118.9 :)

Denis O'Brien.

no there free as can be off the ground i can barely push it around in the garage strange?????

alighnment? front and rear?

EDIT if you can barely push it thats a clue, as the car is hard to move your going to be loading up the diff, much the same as driving wiht the foot on the brake just slightly, this causes the quaiffe units to start to lock up IIRC

Edited by evolotion on 1st Mar, 2008.

turbo 16v k-series 11.9@118.9 :)

Denis O'Brien.

It rolls free, cant steer it in my garage ,eg general monovering

you pic well show that your set up is extreme in camber/toe/castor
your tyre contact patch is way out of your kpi, this separate the moments of forces acting on your suspension and give it a greater arm effect but not as it should be, it should be on your steering arm, it's then on your tyre , I don't think this was handling well before you change the diff it's just make it worse to the point of unlivable ,
can also point that 165/55 on 12*6 doesn't need that much castor/camber/toe out.
I would go back to 1/16 toe out / 1° neg camber std castor and see if it need alteration.

I will give that setup a try and get back to you cheers

Put the car back to standard settings today and still it wont steer well which brings me back to the diff is the there anything that i can do to check the new diff before a make some phone calls cheers rob

Put the car back to standard settings today and still it wont steer well which brings me back to the diff is the there anything that i can do to check the new diff before a make some phone calls cheers rob

Well, stick some standard 'steelies' on it and if it is still bad, then one final check you can do is maybe to jack it up, and see how hard it is to spin individual wheels- maybe work with Nic or anyone else with a quaife to compare.

done that ,when its jacked up on one side the wheel is very difficult to turn if at all .....? it winding me up now