How does an LSD work?
Honda-Tech Member
Joined: Oct 2001
Posts: 1,756
Likes: 0
From: Eindhoven, Netherlands
Re: How does an LSD work? (Adampops)
I don't think anyone knows how a helical one works. I've heard explanations and all sorts of descriptions, but it just seems like regurgitated info that nobody understands. I looked at diagrams and even took one apart. Maybe I was missing something, but it just went right over my head. Good luck with that one.
The clutch ones are easy to explain, but I don't know how to and so I'll leave that to someone else.
The clutch ones are easy to explain, but I don't know how to and so I'll leave that to someone else.
Joined: Nov 2001
Posts: 264
Likes: 0
From: Upland, CA, USA
Re: How does an LSD work?
getting back to the situation in which one drive wheel is on the ice and the other one has good traction: With this limited slip differential, even though the wheel on the ice is not able to transmit much torque to the ground, the other wheel will still get the torque it needs to move. The torque supplied to the wheel not on the ice is equal to the amount of torque it takes to overpower the clutches. The result is that you can move forward, although still not with the full power of your car.
[Modified by dynamite C1, 3:15 AM 1/22/2003]
Joined: Apr 2002
Posts: 280
Likes: 0
From: Pittsburgh Area, PA, U.S.A.
Re: How does an LSD work? (Adampops)
Go to this site! It is better that one of us trying to explain it, and it has good illistrations of how the differentals work.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/differential.htm
http://www.howstuffworks.com/differential.htm
Trending Topics
New User
Joined: Apr 2001
Posts: 1,326
Likes: 0
From: Washington, DC, US
Re: How does an LSD work? (Lsos)
I don't think anyone knows how a helical one works. I've heard explanations and all sorts of descriptions, but it just seems like regurgitated info that nobody understands. .
The clutch types are pretty straight forward though.
New User
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 4,941
Likes: 0
From: Arlington, NoVA, USA
Re: How does an LSD work? (Muckman)
Whats the difference between a 1.5 way LSD and a 2 way LSD?
Re: How does an LSD work? (DunReit)
ok so it sounds like a 2 way is clearly better. whats the catch? Howcome most aftermarket LSDs are 1.5 way - Quaife, Spoon, well even OEM too.
New User
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 4,941
Likes: 0
From: Arlington, NoVA, USA
Re: How does an LSD work? (Muckman)
For a FWD car, a 1.5 is better. For a RWD car, that's a different story... I started a thread yesterday regarding this issue: https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=427817
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
