Centre Diff question

[Michael Spiers <mikes@specnet.com>]

Last week when I was working on the TQ, I needed to move the thing about six
inches backwards.  The rear wheels (and every single thing related to the
brakes) was off the car, and I didn't feel like putting it back on, so I just
put a rolling jack under the rear end & moved it.  Two people pushing it didn't
work, so I jumped in, fired her up, put it in reverse (I know I could have
knocked the thing off the jack, but I was actually hoping I would, then I
woulnd't have to pay the cash to replace the rear brake pads, rotors, calipers,
hoses, cables, bearings and seals, much less repair the A/C that doesn't work
anymore, the screwed up Cruise control, the hesitation at 4,500RPM's, the
wrinkled quarter panel, the smashed headlights, the destroyed grill, the
scuffed bumper, the gas cap I can't unlock, the list goes on) and low and
behold, the car didn't move!  Clutch all the way out, and the rear axels just
spun.  No, I didn't lock the diff.  I thought the centre diff was only capable
of splitting 70/30?  This was 100/0, the car didn't move an inch.  Gave it a
little gas too.  I know it works, I had it in a foot of snow this weekend (had
to have a FWD Eclipse tow it out, how embarrasing) so I know all four wheels
will spin if on equal footing, so wassup??

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-Mike
mikes@specnet.com
mks107@psuvm.psu.edu
87 5000CS TQ-Metropolitan Washington, D.C.
84 5000S - Boulder, Colorado
90 80 - Bethesda, Maryland