How does tod work?

[don moore]

want a real wierd feel ..try the cruise control and give the e-brake alittle pull.... watchout....keep your finger on the button..

[r2m]

I added Aussie Lockers to the front and rear of my very stock 89 Toy P/U and 31" bias swampers (read: LOUD) and the thing will climb trees now! The lockers were about $250.00 for the front and about $260.00 for the rear, tires (new) were about $550.00 for four. so for a wee bit over a grand, I have a vehicle that handles great off road.
Sorry guys, I don't presently have a VX to relate to, but I'm scraping together the cash and looking! But I do have a few years off-roading experience wheeling and building them.
R2M

[AlaskaVX]

Can't understand why the LSD wasn't turning both rear wheels together ?

Limited slips still slip quite a bit it only transfers "X" amount of power to the other side by using a sping pack and clutches.

Quoted from rom Howstuffworks.com

The spring pack pushes the side gears against the clutches, which are attached to the cage. Both side gears spin with the cage when both wheels are moving at the same speed, and the clutches aren't really needed -- the only time the clutches step in is when something happens to make one wheel spin faster than the other, as in a turn. The clutches fight this behavior, wanting both wheels to go the same speed. If one wheel wants to spin faster than the other, it must first overpower the clutch. The stiffness of the springs combined with the friction of the clutch determine how much torque it takes to overpower it.

Getting back to the situation in which one drive wheel is on the ice and the other one has good traction: With this limited slip differential, even though the wheel on the ice is not able to transmit much torque to the ground, the other wheel will still get the torque it needs to move. The torque supplied to the wheel not on the ice is equal to the amount of torque it takes to overpower the clutches. The result is that you can move forward, although still not with the full power of your car.

In this case there wasn't enough torque created to turn the other rear tire with our limited slip system.

The rear limited slip can be manipulated with a slight application of the E brake.

I've never heard that before, could you explain?

Now with an e-brake you can apply more restriction to the spinning wheel enhancing the torque tranfered to the other side. Since the e-brake is only hooked to one rear wheel this only works when trying to transfer it one way. And since I think it is the rear left it could have helped you in this situation, but if you chose other side through the puddle it wouldn't help at all.

And you need some mud tires.... that alone could have got you through this IMO

[BigMeatVX]

The E-BRAKE acts on BOTH rear tires, not just one....

[JAMAS]

I agree with everything that's been said here. But it looks like you could use some tires with a bit more bite as well, especially if you will be doing a good bit of that sort of riding.

Took the words out of my mouth.

[BigMeatVX]

Back to the topic...here are some pics of the TOD internals...