Thread: How To Identify An LSD (Limited Slip Differential)
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Old 12-03-2007, 10:23 AM
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Originally Posted by junglejustice View Post
Can you simply put an Alfa Romeo transaxle car with (suspected) LSD up in the air on a lift, turn one of the drive-wheels in one direction, watch the other wheel - either remain motionless, or even tend to "want" to move in the opposite direction - and conclude that the vehicle in question does NOT have an LSD in it?
No: My budget race car has a 50% lock-up LSD (which I installed in the transaxle myself along with assembling the transaxle, and it is pretty obvious from running it on the race track - no more spinning inside rear tire coming out of turns trying to put down power), and since it is on jack stands in the garage, I went to spin either of the rear wheels. The opposite basically doesn't move, perhaps a slight tendency to wanting to spin in the opposite direction.
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