RE: another quattro goes down in its element

[Michael Williams <daserde@ucla.edu>]

glen powell decided to speak these words:

>>This is what i thought.  Because of the lack of a limited slip system 
>>anywhere in the center diff...once the rear wheels would start slipping, 
>
>You have locked that rear diff as well? (might have made the spinn worse as
>it makes it easy to lock up both rear wheels under braking)

No, i only had the center locked


>
>>any and all power that i had attempted to deliver would have instead gone 
>>straight to the rear wheels, and wouldhave most likely caused me to spin 
>
>Not with the center diff locked. With the center diff locked you guarantee 
>power
>to a minimum of both one front wheel and one rear wheel.
>
>Please don't take this as personal criticism and I do feels yer pain. Sux!


No problem, that is what i meant, that condition that you quoted me 
describing would have happened had i not had my diff locked.  I only had 
the center locked...

I must not have been clear enough, my appologies

Michael Sheridan Williams

My new one: 1985 4000 S Quattro
175,000+ miles, and going like a new car
Well, went like a new car.....right into a guard rail :o(

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