cjames235

****to start off im going to say that i know my tranny is open diff and not lsd****

ok heres the prob. my right wheel is the only wheel that EVER spins and it is damn scary to drive in the rain no matter what tires i put on it. it just totally spins through 1st & 2nd no matter how hard i try to start off easy. it is totally IMPOSSIBLE to get the left wheel to ever spin. i was told that it was a suspension tuning issue. i have gc's on agx's with st sways. do i need to losen up one side of the sways? is it kinda picking the wheel off the ground and making it spin so much?
any help is appreciated. thanks

cjames235

oh yea im going to contradict(spell?) what i said kinda but i know the left will spin if greatly encouraged by the ice that we have on the street but thats it.

delslow94

i seriously doubt its your suspension. i would say you need an lsd, i run the same setup as you except i have skunk 2 coilovers and i experience the same problems in bad weather also. i doubt your suspension would actually pick up the tires durring a situation like that because more people would experience that same problem.

g_man80

Double check the GC coilovers and make sure that they are all set to the same ride height (mainly the driverside rear). If you are running front and rear sway bars, a fairly high spring rate, and the driverside rear is sitting lower it will tend to take weight off of the pass. front.

Just a thought. Good luck,
G

cjames235

ill measure them out and see. my rates are 380r and 350f. thanks for the help.

kommon_sense

sounds like you chassis is tweaked. This happens when you don't have even weight distribution on the wheels. With an open style diff, you will have power transferred to the wheel with the lightest load, or the one with the least amount of weight on it (or least amount of traction).

You can usually fix the tweak by adjusting the wheel on the opposite corner of the car. So if the right wheel is spinning, then adjust the height of the rear left wheel. Raise the height on the rear left and it will put more weight on the right front.

This is the simplest approach. The best approach is to get the car corner weighted.

Yes, you could get an LSD, but while it will solve the problem, it is not the correct solution to the problem.

You should also check tire pressures to make sure that they are not out of whack.

Also, you should disconnect your sway bars while you are adjusting the height on your springs. Once you get the spinning problem solved, then reconnect the sways.


[Modified by kommon_sense, 1:55 PM 2/26/2003]

cjames235

thanks for the clarification(spell?)

.Ryan

Sounds like your car is to fast for the streets now...and should be Race only.

cjames235

shut up ^^^ someone always have to follow with stupid comments