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Brian (Rover_Wannabe)
| | Posted on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 11:51 am: | 
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I have searched the messages and found out about getting the CDL to work in newer disco's, and how to engage the CDL in the older ones, but I have not found out what exactly the CDL does. So my question is what does the CDL do, and why is it not recommended to use on dry pavement?
I assume that the CDL locks the two driveshafts similiarly to what ARB lockers do. But why not engage it on dry pavement? Won't the front and rear differentials take up the slack of the wheel spin? |
John Moore (Jmoore)
| | Posted on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 12:02 pm: |
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Go to the discovery section of this site, and then to basics. Explains it pretty well.
-John |
Brian (Rover_Wannabe)
| | Posted on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 12:28 pm: |
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Thanx
Brian |
irish_nv
| | Posted on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 04:16 pm: |
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hypothetical: without the diff locked if you jacked up the rear of the car so both rear wheels are off the ground and only the fronts were would the car not go anywhere. |
John Moore (Jmoore)
| | Posted on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 05:09 pm: |
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The CDL gives equal power to front and rear. The car would move. If you needed to remove either drive shaft or blew a diff on the trail, you would have to lock the CDL.
-John |
Axel Haakonsen (Axel)
| | Posted on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 08:46 pm: |
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It would not move unless the CDL was locked. And it is enough to have one wheel off the ground with the CDL unlocked for the car to be immobilized. |
chris C
| | Posted on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 10:11 pm: |
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That is of course unless you have ETC in which case the tourque would be transfered to wheels which had traction. |
Axel Haakonsen (Axel)
| | Posted on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 10:42 pm: |
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True, but the initial question was related to how the CDL works. ETC uses the ABS system and is independent of the CDL. Of course if you bring ETC into the equation, or front and rear lockers, or a viscous coupling, the behaviour will change. |
RJ Clayton (Tozovr)
| | Posted on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 11:35 pm: |
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From what we saw a few weeks ago on the trail with a Bone Stock DII with no CDL and the ETC...it seemed as though it took some serious spinning fo rthr etc to "kick in"...when it did it certainly helped but it was odd to see...CDL SOON!!!!!! Jeeeesh the things they engineer into cars these days!!!
RJ |
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