diagnosing noise in 200tqa

Peter Golledge petergg at dimensional.com
Sat Jan 18 21:03:03 EST 2003


Nicholas Lawrence wrote:
>
> Car is a '90 200 tqa.
>   I'm trying to figure out a noise in the drive train.  Is it possible to
> remove the drive shaft and drive the car?

Can't do this with a Torsen.  The Pre-89 with a manual lock you could do
this on.

> Will a short test drive do any damage?

If you can get access, put the car up on a hoist and take a look/listen
while running.

> I'm searching for info on how the torsen works, maybe I'll understand what
> is turning when.

Search the list, there are huge flame wars on this topic. Or sub to the
torsen sub-list. :-)

Cheers
--
Peter Golledge



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