Lsd?
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PitbullRescuer
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Are you asking about a Limited Slip Diff or did you mean to ask if it is available with an e-locker?
tbst
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4wd is really a 2wd. SURPRISE!
Drcoffee
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Tell me it isn't so! Which wheels ?
Why does the front have two axles shafts if only one spins? So confused.
Yes unfortunately "4 wheel drive" is misleading. The best you can get on a stock 3rd gen is 3 wheel drive. That is a locked rear diff and power going to the front open differential.
I am a fan of installing a LSD in the front and keeping the selectable locker in the rear. If however you do some serious off roading dual lockers are probably a better option.
I am a fan of installing a LSD in the front and keeping the selectable locker in the rear. If however you do some serious off roading dual lockers are probably a better option.
IanB
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And 2WD is actually 1WD! The power goes to whichever tires have less traction when you have open diffs front and rear. The 4runners do have a locking center diff (multimode anyways, although I think the J-shifter ones accomplish the same thing) so you have 50/50 power distribution front and rear, but the front and rear diffs are open so the power goes to the tire with the least amount of traction.
Some 4runners had e-locker rear diffs, so you would in effect have as much as 3WD with that setup when in 4hi/4low w/ e-locker engaged. Some Hilux Surfs came with rear LSD's as well.
tbst
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Can't believe A.J. didn't inform you of the 4WD conspiracy.
Drcoffee
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I'm learning on the fly with this new truck. Bear with me. So this weekend when I installed new rear shocks, I lifted one side at a time and had to put it in Neutral in order to turn the wheel on both sides. Doesn't that mean its connected since one can't spin freely? Seems like its connected to the transmission somehow.
Drcoffee
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FYI: DO NOT BYPASS THE RADIATOR TRANSMISSION COOLER!
LOL
Lets try to be helpful tbst. Better yet, why don't you go to the airport and get felt up by some fat smelly TSA agent.
. Somehow I think you might like it.
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t4r4life
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why?
Drcoffee
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Private joke. Ever since I started a thread on that topic a while back, tbst has been dogging me on most every thread. It's so sad, it's funny.
Do what you want. It's your truck.
tbst
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FYI: DO NOT BYPASS THE RADIATOR TRANSMISSION COOLER!
LOL
Lets try to be helpful tbst. Better yet, why don't you go to the airport and get felt up by some fat smelly TSA agent.
No thanks. I don't want your wife touching me.
t4r4life
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oh i like this!!
only time you get ass is when your finger Slips Through the Toilet Paper :drummer:
your move
tbst
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This is a truthful answer. You are correct that you had to put in in Neutral. Think about it, if you didn't have to put it in Neutral than when you put the cark in Park, it wouldn't do anything.
However, when you are in Drive, the vehicle powers the wheel of least resistance. For 2wd (rear wheel drive) the drive shaft is only giving power to the rear wheels. And then to the wheel that has the least resistance. NOW, if you had a locker back there it would power both wheels the same, theoretically.
Now lets move to all wheel drive. When you press the button (on 99+ I believe) you are giving power to both the front wheels and the back wheels, however they can move independently of each other. And an equal amount of power it NOT going to the front or the back.
If you press the button to lock the center diff, the power is distributed. However, in this case you have one tire in the front that is able to move faster than the other, the one of least resistance. In the back you have the same scenario as 2wd.
So that is why I said you really only have 2wd, because if you had two wheels off the ground (one front and one back) only two would be turning (in "4wd"). If you had a front locker and a rear locker ALL wheels would be turning. Or if you had a rear locker and two wheels off the ground, same scenario as above, both the back wheels and one of the front wheels would be turning. Or if you had a front diff lock and not a back, same scenario, both the front wheels and one of the back wheels would be turning.
Someone correct me if I am wrong.
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Drcoffee
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So is it a limited slip or and open differential then? An open differential has no ability to spin the drivers side wheel, with or without resistance. Am I wrong? It sounds like a Torsen differential to me where it is a one wheel drive until it slips and then it distributes power to the other wheel.
My truck has the J-shifter T-case or watever its called. I have the shifter, not the button type like the Limiteds have.
My truck has the J-shifter T-case or watever its called. I have the shifter, not the button type like the Limiteds have.
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