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Limited Slip Diff's

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Limited Slip Diff's

Post by A1ex » Tue Jul 31, 2012 5:16 pm

So, I've done some snooping around and apparently the m2b4 box has a viscous differential and apparently (Wiki) viscous diff's after time (60,000 miles) behave like open diffs...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited-sl ... al#Viscous

Anyone else heard this, or had experience of it?
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Post by 4thgenphil » Tue Jul 31, 2012 5:40 pm

mines seems to work just fine! ;)
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Post by bristol_bb4 » Tue Jul 31, 2012 5:41 pm

4thgenphil wrote:mines seems to work just fine! ;)
+1 8-)
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Post by A1ex » Tue Jul 31, 2012 5:42 pm

good times 8-) what kinda mileage have the box's done?
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Post by 4thgenphil » Tue Jul 31, 2012 5:44 pm

A1ex wrote:good times 8-) what kinda mileage have the box's done?
31000 miles :lol:

not actuall sure mate as its jdm, 120k iirc but that'll be a mix of miles and km ;)
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Post by A1ex » Tue Jul 31, 2012 5:47 pm

OK cool, cheers phil.
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Post by 4thgenphil » Tue Jul 31, 2012 5:50 pm

even my mate had a go and asked if it had an lsd as he could feel it so its not all in my head ;)
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Post by bristol_bb4 » Tue Jul 31, 2012 6:15 pm

89K on mine
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Post by Dbo » Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:29 pm

mine just came out of a lude with 200,000+ on the clock in km's and has done about 200 miles since sunday, cause i can't stop driving it :lol:
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Post by A1ex » Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:36 pm

It's all sounding good gents :)

Can wait to get mine sorted on thursday with the new(ish) clutch and light weight flywheel :D
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