Re: Boating with an S4

[John Cunningham <johnc@together.net>]

aaaargh.  not another torsen thread.

Avram Dorfman wrote:

> started back in May. Don't remember who supplied then answer, but it is
> essentially this: Torsens distribute x% of *torque* to the gripping axle. If
> the rear wheels are spinning free in mud, then they are requiring zero
> torque to do so. x% of zero is zero, so that's how much torque goes to the
> front axle to help out. Remember - just b/c the engine *can* put out 200+

if this was the case, torsen's wouldn't work and we'd still have diff lock
buttons for the torsen diffs.  what you describe is what happens with std. open
and limited slip diffs - they equalize or near equalize the torque down to zero
when one wheel has no resistance. your reference sounds like a mis-paraphrase of
something i posted back then... now the truth is that the torsen distributes up
to a percentage of the torque, so something like 30% of the torque applied at
the front wheels will go to spinning mud...


> work with. So, the trick he might have been able to use is... Put the
> emergency brake on, thus providing resistance to the rear wheels, x% (what

again, that's the std. open diff method.


> But one of these kids having a trailer hitch on an S4 doesn't make the hitch
> wrong. It's still the snotty kid that's the problem.
>

yeah.  a little towing ain't no thing.  abusive towing antics is.

JC

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John J Cunningham                     Project Managment & Analysis
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