Test 7.5" limited slip / where do I weld??

[AllanD]

I've never heard of a welded diff being illegal anywhere.

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[gwaii]

I've never heard of a welded diff being illegal anywhere.

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same with me.

 

[heptofite]

I've never heard of a welded diff being illegal anywhere.

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spools are not street legal, welded diffs are not street legal by extension.

 

[Surrey]

spools are not street legal, welded diffs are not street legal by extension.

how would the cop prove shit? There is like 3 turns from here to stave lake, and I will be driving a truck without sway bars, I'm nit doing corners at 60... There is a crap load of things I would be more worried about, like having to get a VI if I do more than 10cm of lift (cause that's gonna happen...lol) or shit, speeding on a straight stretch.

 

[ozziemo27]

just going to go ahead and point out that it's illegal to have a welded differential on public roads in most places.

spools are not street legal, welded diffs are not street legal by extension.

Got any sources for that or is it just word of mouth?

 

[gwaii]

Got any sources for that or is it just word of mouth?

this is exactly what i was thinking.there's nothing at all about it in the bc regs,as far as i've been able to tell.i would post something,but since it's not mentioned,there's nothing to post.

i've run welded diffs and spools on trucks for decades,never had anyone say anything about it.nor has anyone else i've known.and i'm not talking about occasional weekend warriors.i'm talking drive-it-every-day-cause-it's-all-you-got rigs.

having said that,i'm sorry,surrey.....i'm very familliar with the route to stave lake.a couple or three more turns than you've implied to get there

 

[Surrey]

this is exactly what i was thinking.there's nothing at all about it in the bc regs,as far as i've been able to tell.i would post something,but since it's not mentioned,there's nothing to post.

i've run welded diffs and spools on trucks for decades,never had anyone say anything about it.nor has anyone else i've known.and i'm not talking about occasional weekend warriors.i'm talking drive-it-every-day-cause-it's-all-you-got rigs.

having said that,i'm sorry,surrey.....i'm very familliar with the route to stave lake.a couple or three more turns than you've implied to get there

I guess it depends what you count as a corner... If you count coming off Hwy 1 to get to the Mary Hill bypass as a corner, and getting off the Mary Hill bypass onto Lougheed as another corner, you could stretch it to 6 or 7... But from my view, its left onto 10th street, right onto 8th ave, left onto Braid street, merge onto highway, change highways (2x) and the left from Lougheed onto Dewdney Truck Road...

So 3 turns at light-controlled intersections, 1 stop sign, and some on/offramps and merges and shit, starting in New Westminster.

Besides, Maple Ridge cops have better things to do (chase down jibheads) than harass people going to Stave, unless its a long weekend during the summer. (at which point they just road block the gravel road in, and even THEN the only way you get in shit is if your truck has no insurance, or you have open booze in the truck.)

 

[Toms01PSD]

spools are not street legal, welded diffs are not street legal by extension.

 

[mhughes165]

lolol, see, where ur wrong about the spools not being street legal is when u take a truck for inspection in NJ u HAVE to list the modifications for the truck, and they never hasseled me EVER for runnin a spool

 

[Surrey]

lolol, see, where ur wrong about the spools not being street legal is when u take a truck for inspection in NJ u HAVE to list the modifications for the truck, and they never hasseled me EVER for runnin a spool

Yupp. I think we have a case of someone regurgitating hear-say as fact...

Now, trying to get back on topic... Does anyone know how to reliably test the LS? The axle is currently sitting on the ground beside my old truck, no tires, but otherwise complete from drums in.

 

[gwaii]

I guess it depends what you count as a corner... If you count coming off Hwy 1 to get to the Mary Hill bypass as a corner, and getting off the Mary Hill bypass onto Lougheed as another corner, you could stretch it to 6 or 7... But from my view, its left onto 10th street, right onto 8th ave, left onto Braid street, merge onto highway, change highways (2x) and the left from Lougheed onto Dewdney Truck Road...

So 3 turns at light-controlled intersections, 1 stop sign, and some on/offramps and merges and shit, starting in New Westminster.

Besides, Maple Ridge cops have better things to do (chase down jibheads) than harass people going to Stave, unless its a long weekend during the summer. (at which point they just road block the gravel road in, and even THEN the only way you get in shit is if your truck has no insurance, or you have open booze in the truck.)

ya,that's a point

i was counting everything that wasn't straight road as a corner.


as someone who had a 4x4 shop in mission,stave was my second home.if you go down the freeway to cross at the mission bridge,then approach stave from the east it's nothing but corners.

anyway...i was just razzin ya

 

[Sunk]

This is how not to do it.

 

[gwaii]

This is how not to do it.

but that's what i've always done


still can't figure out why the driveshaft reliability's been less than optimum though.

 

[Sunk]

Check the u-joints. They may need to be re-welded too.

 

[gwaii]

Check the u-joints. They may need to be re-welded too.

that must be it.

thanks,bud