Re: a yaw'ning chasm....

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <67ce21c0.2479765d@aol.com> JustaxPHX@aol.com writes:

> Needless to say, I respectfully disagree with Dave's comments above.  And if
> anybody figures out how a "locked" diff can transfer torque, please be sure
> to drop me a note before I go offline for the summer at the end of the
> month...

Erm ...

It can't do anything else.

[Sorry, Dan.]

Consider the situation of a locked centre differential under power.  The
car hits a hump-back bridge (switch-back) and the front wheels leave the
floor.  The 'locked' differential means the front and rear wheels
continue to rotate at the the same angular velocity, but _ALL_ of the
power goes to the rear - there is no resistance for it to act against
at the front, and there is thus no expression of 'torque' at the front.

I suspect in this, and in many other of these discussions, you are
confusing the concepts of force and power.

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Phil Payne