robert weeks wrote:
> Well, it just figures that as soon as I resubscribe to the spridgets
> list that something major would happen to my Midget. While taking off
> from a light I heard a loud crunch and then no power to the back wheels.
> I can put the car in gear with the handbrake on and the driveshaft
> spins but that's where it ends. I figure I fried the differential or
> I snapped an axel. But then again if I snapped an axel, shouldn't one
> wheel still spin??
Not unless you have a limited slip differential. I learnt this lesson on the
streets of Montreal one icy February. The whell with the least resistance
gets the power, so if you have ice under the rear right, and pavement under
the rear left, the rear right spins like mad and the rear left just sits. One
trick was to simulate resistance by putting the parking brake on part way.
Witha broken half shaft you're going put all the power to the bad side 'cause
it has no resistance, and the good site will just sit there.
Greg
> Maybe I snapped both half shafts??? Or maybe I
> somehow angered MOWOG and snapped both half shafts and fried the diff.
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