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To: Abathar

“Most rear wheel cars use the back right tire as the drive tire, unless you have positraction. When you turn right and do it the weight of the car goes to the left, onto the non drive tire, causing the right tire to lose traction and slip free easier.”

Uh, what? Unless you have some form of LSD or mechanically locking differential, like a Posi-traction diff, you have an open differential, which means that torque can go equally easy to either rear wheel. Whichever way you turn the inside wheel will be unloaded and tend to spin. Probably, though, the side of the car you’re sitting on (if you’re by yourself) has a little more weight, so in a straight line the right tire is probably more likely to break loose.


91 posted on 07/20/2007 1:12:43 PM PDT by -YYZ- (Strong like bull, smart like ox.)
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To: -YYZ-

My right back tire would be replaced 4 times over my left back tire, it spun if I dumped the clutch in reverse, the back right was the only tire that would spin under power in my car.


98 posted on 07/20/2007 1:34:53 PM PDT by Abathar (Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
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