Micabay
Land Dweller
WA state just made those legal. I still haven't figured out how they work.
Power divider/axle interlock
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WA state just made those legal. I still haven't figured out how they work.
Duck
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Looking at the pictures, I guess you can say it's like a condom for your tires.
Gives new meaning to the term "slippery when wet".
Hey, it's slippery out there, better use protection.
Copperhead
Well-Known Member
Well, the pictures don't do Autosocks justice. Look at the videos showing the Colorado DOT testing. They put chains to shame. I have no real clue how they work as well as they do, but they do. The testing was with autos and semis in the hill country.
AutoSock a Revolutionary Invention - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIBk94_WMqA&playnext=1&list=PLB9B682B4327C2045&feature=results_main
AutoSock a Revolutionary Invention - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIBk94_WMqA&playnext=1&list=PLB9B682B4327C2045&feature=results_main
Tazz
Infidel
Trojan already filed copyright on "Anti-Slip Cover":neener:
white sock, black sock, argyle sock, hand sock......
it's all in the way you "look" at the sock at hand.....
Duck
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White socks suck.
Oh wait, ... it's the Cubs that suck, ... I get them mixed up all the time. Why does Chicago need two baseball teams anyway?
Micabay
Land Dweller
Just read the "owners manual" on this Cornbiner, and found learned the "off road enable" button is to activate the ATC (Automatic Traction Control?) I'd doesn't say anything about which speed to flip this switch, only if your wheels are spinning, faster than the road, the use said bubutton
the other one "PDL Lock", (Power Divder Lock Lock?) The manual says to only engage at low speeds and not when the wheels are spinning (not gripping?) now to define "low speed".
Fageol
Old acid hauler but not too caustic
Isn't "same as yours", slippery when wet", the standard reply when one of the opposite sex asks a trucker his ("his" used generically of course) astrological sign?
Les2
Hobbie Trucker
Haha!
Marc Letourneau
UN 1203
I have heard a couple guys on the CB asking the other what that switch that said engine brake means... Or what it does..
they "could have been" clowning around and trying to get someone into an argument..???
Marc Letourneau
UN 1203
Lol I thought the same till the other guy started explaining how it works and when to use it.
Duck
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Maybe he happened to come across Justin Barnes, .. AKA: CRST Nightmare and about a million other troll accounts of his that we've banned or deleted.
well when i used to run to Newburgh, NY every night, i had to go onto I-694, then to I-84. somewhere's along the way on/off I-91 (???), there was or still is a Yellow terminal. there was a driver there that ran with a buddy, they would start all kinds of stuff, asking mostly what exit to take to get into the area they just came from..!!!
both guys sounded convincing enough to cause such a ruckus.
Thats pretty inaccurate...You're thinking of a diff lock that essentially make a non posi rear end into a posi rear end.
A power divider on the other hand, engages the second rear end so that BOTH rear ends are used to transmit power as opposed to im stead of just one as it is under normal operating situations.
Let me make myself perfectly clear, if I may. May I?
Tandem axle road tractors like the kind we all use to haul freight are built with three (3) (thr33) differentials. The rear rear has a set of spider gears forming a differential. The front rear has a set of spider gears forming a differential. The power divider has a set of spider gears forming a differential.
There is no "drive wheel" in a vehicle with a differential carrier. The spiders transmit torque equally between the left and right wheels. At the same time the spiders allow for the left and right wheels to turn at different speeds. That is the purpose of the differential. Neither the left or right wheel is "a" "drive wheel". Both wheels are drive wheels, equally.
In a vehicle with two axles operating in tandem, like the road tractors we drive, it is necessary to provide differentiation between the forward axle and the rearward axle in the same manner provided between the left and right wheels of both of those axles.
There is no "drive axle". The forward axle and the rearward axle are driven equally through spider gears in the same manner as the left and right wheels are driven equally through spider gears. Just as the shortcoming associated with the differential becomes problematic when either a left or right wheel is on ice, the same shortcoming leads to the same problem when any of the four hubs of a tandem axle tractor rest on ice.
If only one of the four hubs is on slick ice, the entire vehicle can be disabled, because of the shortcoming inherent in differentials, and road tractors have three (3) (thr33). However, road tractors come manufactured with one of those differentials subject to control from the cab, with the throw of the switch, and that differential is the mechanism known to us as the power divider, or chunk, or inter-axle differential. Upon the throw of the dashboard switch, the power divider is locked, no longer performing as a differential. With its spiders locked, the inter-axle differential forces both axles to turn at equal speeds. The effect of this is to allow greater opportunity for the disabled vehicle to free itself from its predicament. With the chunk locked, and either of the two axles having both its hubs in a condition of positive traction, the vehicle may experience the desired movement in either a forward or rearward direction.
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