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If one of the wheels is on ice or hung up in the air, the differential sends 100 percent of the power to that spinning wheel. TOM: You can see how this can be a problem. If you're driving a car with two-wheel drive and one of those wheels gets stuck on ice, that's the only wheel that will get traction, so you're done for.
RAY: So what a limited slip differential does is it fixes that differential oversight. When one wheel is spinning, a set of clutches inside a limited slip differential shift some of the power to the other wheel, so the wheel that's not stuck has power, too.
RAY: So what a limited slip differential does is it fixes that differential oversight. When one wheel is spinning, a set of clutches inside a limited slip differential shift some of the power to the other wheel, so the wheel that's not stuck has power, too.
...I quit in the early 70's... I saw dead people...
go here http://www.howstuffworks.com/differential5.htm
go here http://www.howstuffworks.com/differential5.htm
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Jan 24, 2003 05:14 PM



i know its a stupid question
