oreillys said it'd be $50 plus $30 freight shipping and the afore mentioned 3-4 week wait, autozone said "$80 and $80 core charge", with no timeframe

got a quote from a new parts supplier, who said something like $535?

where are you able to get a reman for $55?

-dfws2k

 

Factory Motor Parts- got it in 3 days

Cardone "brand"/reman

 

if one axle goes, wont the car still move forward? i thought thats how a lsd worked, power to both wheels, not just hte one with least resistence?

 

That is how a LSD diff works, but ours isn't an LSD.

It is a 'torque sensing' diff.

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/differential6.htm

 

well then, that makes sense now. learn something new everyday.

 

You still will just barely be able to move with an LSD. I've broke a few axles with the R200 and you can just barely get the thing to move. You give it any gas and it just free revs.

 

thanks i'll give them a call, I want to get a spare/do something with mine

 

We most certainly do have an LSD. There are two main kinds of LSDs: torsen (geared like ours or clutch based) and speed sensitive type (viscous couplings and those other weird electronic ones and stuff)


hopefully you did not just "learn" that a torsen diff isn't an LSD, lol. Better go ahead and forget that


If you don't have an open diff then you have either an LSD, a spool, or a locker

 

"Torque-Sensing Torsen Limited-Slip"

And a torsen will act like and open diff if one wheel is off the ground.

 

i learned that if one wheel has no resistance then the other wont spin. i didnt think that would happen.