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Old 05-27-2019, 06:02 AM
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Originally Posted by fyrstormer
That is how the RC-Monster.com "Slipperential" works -- or worked. It was a fearsomely complex piece of kit to assemble just-right, and it apparently didn't sell well enough to justify continuing to manufacture it after the initial production run. Slippers and diffs are just too complicated to assemble into a single unit, and it's more practical to have them as separate transmission stages, when space allows.
I still think it can be done. RC-Monster.com's problem was they tried to make everything fit in the existing space of the center diff. I reckon this caused all kinds of compromises.....
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