Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 17:24:14 -0800
Reply-To: Daryl of AA Transaxle <daryl@AATRANSAXLE.COM>
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From: Daryl of AA Transaxle <daryl@AATRANSAXLE.COM>
Subject: Re: Peloquin torque biasing differential
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I have personal experience along with many customers reports about the TB
Diffs..and by the way, Quaiife never finished the patent process, so never
had a lock on them..Gary & everyone else took advantage of that small
detail...Yes, you can overdrive and spin wheels or get stuck with the TBD
style diffs..Yes there are some situations where they will just plain not
work...The reality is that under most non rock crawling serious off road
situations, they work slicker than snake snot to KEEP you going past the
point where you normally would be a spinnin the rr tire and stucker than
said snake snot...
I have locking LSD's both front and rear in my own Syncro..Went to Mogfest
and did the same Jeep trails as 19 other syncro's without locking up either
end...
Gone skiing wihtout coupling the front end and made it all the way to the
ski area lot with just the 2wd LSD function..Never ever would happen without
the LSD back there.
Customers call and tell me how it drives like their front wheel drive Jetta
with the LSD in the front diff...
Put way over 75 or 80 of them in without any issues whatsoever..(to my
knowledge)
The automatic tranny version L.S.Diffs's were all bought by GW and some sold
to German Trans for the time being. No different in basic operation that the
manual trans version..A definite improvement over the open diff...
Any other questions??
Daryl of AA Transaxle
425-788-4070
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Anderson" <wvukidsdoc@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: Peloquin torque biasing differential
Yeah, though Troy's point needs to be well taken about Quaife style
(Peloquin being the biggest oldest ripoff of such) differentials. They are
torque biasing, but you still need traction with both wheels. Not a lot, but
some. If one wheel is in the air, it ain't a locker and you won't move; you
will with a full locker, you might even with a strong clutch pack limited
slip, but not with a Quaife. But for general purpose slick or high power low
grip conditions, the one's I've had in FWD VWs have been very nice.
Now if the T2 market was only big enough to force price down like the FWD VW
market was. (When Peloquin first started making them, the price war drove
Quaife and Peloquin down about $500 from where Quaife had been prior to the
war.)
Anyone running one in the front differential of a syncro BTW, I've wondered
how handling would be, I assume it would fit in the carrier fine?
John
> Just wanted to give a report of a Peloquin limited slip differential, or I
> guess more correctly called a torque biasing differential. I have an 89
> automatic, and German transaxle out of Bend did the rebuild. As long as
> you
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