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Old 02-16-2008, 03:48 AM
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Still seems a little funky to me, cone or clutch it's the same forces needed to activate either.Since the slip shafts are intended to allow for wheel travel (grow / shrink with knuckle travel), it would also cause the same action against the carrier as horizontal load shift (taking a turn). Granted one is a brief force compaired to the other.

Even a hard launch would cause a "crouch down" of the rear and activation on let-up, so I can't see a pre-load on the slip shafts of any kind, they have to free-float. Has anyone noticed an inside tire chirp when taking a curve?

Sorry if it seems like nit-picking, but this can easily cause differential heat / failure. Obviously a standard spider gear carrier would not be effected, perhaps this was a compromise on the original sc cars when they dumped the rear leaf spring?

Glad to hear the Pass bar is available, from what pictures I found it looked like a tough add-on to do after the fact. From what I could see each attachment point required added brackets of some kind.
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