Limited slip differential (LSD)

[Toby Erkson <Toby_Erkson@ccm2.hf.intel.com>]

I have no need to buy a T181 tranny since my T3 is a custom built unit, 
so...  Can I just pop in a T181 LSD into my T3?  The nose cone is for 
shifting, not controlling differential slip, so I don't see how it concerns 
me (unless I install a complete T181 tranny, of course).  Also, what is the 
mechanism that the T181 LSD uses to control slip (there are two ways that 
I've heard of, maybe more?) and can they still be purchased?

     Toby Erkson
     air_cooled_nut@pobox.com
     '72 VW Squareback 1.6L bored and stroked to 2.0L
     '75 Porsche 914 1.8L for sale
     Portland, Oregon, USA

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Subject: Re: Anti-sway bars?  Two thumbs-up!
Author:  type-3-errors@umich.edu at SMTPGATE
Date:    4/30/97 11:21 AM

The Thing did have the OPTION for a limited slip diff.

But not ALL of them had it.  If you find one, make sure it's from a
NON-reduction-boxed Thing and you can use it... WITH the nose cone.

A reduction-boxed Thing has the same reduction boxes as a bus, so to use
it there will have to be the same gear switching as you do to use a bus
tranny in a bus with the reduction boxes removed.

confused yet?

Big AL
awpresley@earthlink.net