Limited slip in '84 Brumby?

[KiwiBrumby]

Too lazy to do a practical test so can anybody tell me if I was in four-wheel drive mode and got in a slippery area and and one wheel started to spin would I be stuck?

 

Or would I still have traction with the other three wheels and be able to drive out? 

[jono]

Where do you propose this one wheel to be? Are you asking about if you had a rear LSD?

[Gloyale]

Too lazy to do a practical test so can anybody tell me if I was in four-wheel drive mode and got in a slippery area and and one wheel started to spin would I be stuck?

 

Or would I still have traction with the other three wheels and be able to drive out? 

 

One wheel spinning, you could keep moving.  as the 2 wheels of the other set woudl still drive (front or back, whichever was not spinning.

 

this is not limited slip, just a lock 4wd....no center differential

 

if you had one wheel at each axle spinning, you'd be stuck, the other 2 would get no drive.

[jsyme]

I'm not familiar with the 1984 Brat (NA/USA) specifically only drivetrains generally.

 

Consider it actually a 2 wheel drive... one of the two front wheels will always pull, and one of the rear two wheels will always pull. presuming the opposite wheel is off the ground or has not traction.

 

(as long as you aren't in reverse where is may bind)  

(as opposed to say a Honda civic "front wheel drive" where only one wheel actually pulls.)

(as opposed to say a Toyota HiLux, (that I want so badly in diesel) with differential lockers, and front-axle lockers, and rear-axle- lockers... that actually is 4x4 and all 4 wheels are pullers.

 

Check out Jeeps Solid axles and Limited Slip differentials if you want a diff-erent experience.

[Gloyale]

I'm not familiar with the 1984 Brat (NA/USA) specifically only drivetrains generally.

 

Consider it actually a 2 wheel drive... one of the two front wheels will always pull, and one of the rear two wheels will always pull. presuming the opposite wheel is off the ground or has not traction.

 

(as long as you aren't in reverse where is may bind)  

(as opposed to say a Honda civic "front wheel drive" where only one wheel actually pulls.)

(as opposed to say a Toyota HiLux, (that I want so badly in diesel) with differential lockers, and front-axle lockers, and rear-axle- lockers... that actually is 4x4 and all 4 wheels are pullers.

 

Check out Jeeps Solid axles and Limited Slip differentials if you want a diff-erent experience.

 

When the vehichle is flat....it is either 2wd or 4wd.  With 2 wheels or 4 wheels all providing drive.

 

It's not that only one wheel per axle drives.  Both wheels drive as long as there is weight and traction at both tires.  A front wheel drive honda is still 2wd.  both front wheels drive whenever both tires are on the road.

 

Reverse has no effect on this action.

[KiwiBrumby]

One wheel spinning, you could keep moving.  as the 2 wheels of the other set woudl still drive (front or back, whichever was not spinning.

 

this is not limited slip, just a lock 4wd....no center differential

 

if you had one wheel at each axle spinning, you'd be stuck, the other 2 would get no drive.

 

That's the answer I was looking for!

 

I asked the question because I remember being in a Daihatsu Rocky (I think, long time ago!) that ended up with a rear wheel hanging above a hole - and unable to move as all the power went to spinning the rear wheel that was in mid-air.

[Henpecked]

With respect I'd like to hi-jack this a bit I have a Brumby/Brat with a LSD from a "L" series, does this mean that when in 4WD either rear wheels can "drive" even if the other is without traction ?

 

That is to be "stuck" with no power to the grounded wheel, l'd need to have lost traction at either of the front wheels AND BOTH of the rear wheels?Thanks

[Knucklehead Saloon]

As I understand it Henpecked, yes. You got the nail on the head there.