« on: Apr 08, 2005, 07:33:38 PM »
During cornering, the outside tire has to travel farther than the inside tire to end up at the same place when you straighten it out. The only way to do this is to have the inside wheel turn slower than the outside wheel. That is the point of an open differential. When you weld the spiders to the case or to themselves, everything turns as one unit at the same speed. So both wheels turn at the same speed. Now when you turn the inside wheel has to break traction because it is spinning too fast. You will get chirping and bucking from this on pavement. On the flip side, it greatly increases offroad ability. So its a toss up between how much street driving versus how much off roading you do.
wot he said
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2008 Tacoma regular cab, 4.88s, ARBs, crawl box, manual shift FJ case
