Originally Posted by Ridley

I think the point he was trying to make, is the original comment is, well, an attempt to baffle in bullshit to dance around the question of why the driveline isn't straight

If one wanted to increase power delivery to the rear wheels under acceleration, you just up the center diff fluid. There is never a reason to have a center drive system bind. EVER.

I'm sure most of us with the current truck have had the front center coupler wobble out and bind even more than it does stock, and it's an obvious detriment to performance when that starts to happen, and is immediately recognizable. To claim that it's an engineered into the truck on purpose, is an insult to their engineers. It's obviously a cost saving measure as to not have to retool the rear case and ring gear to run conventionally, as is the fact that the center diff is plopped down precisely with the front and rear driveshafts swapped around so they can use the same parts. It may work, and maybe the engineers were instructed to do it like that, but it's far from ingenuitive. In fact, it's probably the very first thing any eyeball engineer would do in their garage to start the same project with.

The most saddening part of the truck, is it still apparently, uses the same soft stub axles. Those wear and start to bind up the suspension and driveline just as fast as the front coupler. The first truck was always in a state of flux in regards to how much bind the drivetrain had, and how that would effect the handling that day. 3 race weekends and they are trashed.