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Originally posted by spitty12
EDITE: The clutch type you made should slip when power is going to the rear wheels causing your power to go no where and just make noise. If it is tight enough to make all the power reach the rear wheels then it would be so tight it wouldn't slip at all around corners. I think that's how it would work but let me know what experience told you.
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with the 1st type it was like that. etheir power was wasted slipping the diff or the diff was too tight causing it to be locked. i started getting frustrated but the locked diff let me slide around without diffing so i was happy so far. and then i went to office depot and found a nice single hole punch (1/4th inch) i found that the punches moved around too much for the 1st one. then i compared the size to the space between the 3 center gears. perfect fit! so i put together a 2nd type. the 2nd type is much more effective as you can go with lower amounts of lock and not waste power. lower amounts of lock also make it act less erratic because of the roughness of the paper. i found plastic not to be a good material because after a while the plastic binds against each other and ends up acting like paper. my friend gave me some washers from a 4wd tamiya and they are the exact size as the smaller punches. i stuck 1 on each side and put lubricant in the diff. i tightened the diff to a reasonable lock and it works much better then the paper or plastic. so far im happy with it. much more consistant drifts and more percise gripping
oh yeah the little ring on the gear side on the side gears are wearing out. theyre ending up flat but they add more surface area. i think after a while i might need a new diff. to mess with. yeah and on another note these diffs act more like 2.0 way diffs.