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it's been done.. do a search on xt6.net

thanks for the cotter pin idea guys... I'll be using them all the way around so axles are easier to change now... although I've made the perfect spring pin punch

I drove to Oswego New York (few hours trip) and back to pickup my first car... sight unseen, with no knowledge of subarus whatsoever... that little beat up FWD XT6 served me well.... but I have a lot of interesting stories about getting it stuck, and having it break down, and me towing it with a 4dr '89 toyota camry and a 5ft rope.... among many other things... then I was in this junkyard and found an xt6 with a rotten bottom that had been hit on the side... spent a very long time haggling with a mean old junkyard owner to get it released into my custody... THEN, being the smart-rump roast guy that I am.. I drove 20hrs continuosly, only breaks being picking up my new xt6 with a bad transmission that I paid $500 for, and stopping for gas in the gas guzzling truck.....needless to say I was very tired after this one, but happy to have another xt6

if it's an automatic just get a tranny oil cooler from parts of africa for like $40 and you will sleep a lot easier at night

I'm worried about streetability though.. this will be my daily driver..

I suppose that's possible, yes.. not sure I'd want to go that route though.. I'm wondering if I can just put the gears from my diff into the housing for the audi.. but I still have to take them apart and see what's what

not with AWD.. that's bad for it I guess...

I think it would be a major step as well... I'm contemplating just throwing in a 4.11 tranny as there are _TONS_ of audi locking rear diffs with this gear ratio.. but I refuse to give up my locking center..

"The Torsen center diff appeared after the 1988 model year. Prior to that, there is a open diff with manual locks. In either case, the center diff is integrated into the transmission and you don't have to worry about it with respect to driveshafts. The rear diff on most Audi quattros (except the V8 or the Haldex cars) are open diffs, either with manual locking (some with auto-unlocking at speeds above 15mph), or with EDL via the ABS system on the post-96 cars." http://www.audifans.com/pipermail/quattro/2003-December/085560.html from the way I understand it... this means that it actually _IS_ a locking rear, not just an LSD knock-off.... "Now there is still the problem of slip. If one wheel in one of these cars is spinning, nothing else moves. So the first generation Quattro cars have what are called "differential locks" for the center and rear differential. When the lock is activated the two axles connected to the differential *cannot* rotate at different speeds, they are locked together. So if one rear wheel is in mud or on ice and the other has traction, locking the rear differential makes the tire with good traction spin at the same speed as the one without - and you drive away. These locks require driver input and knowledge, however (ie, you must know when they are appropriate, to engage or disengage them). The "Torque Sensing" or "Torsen" differential is a slightly different animal. Rather than having the ability to let one axle spin and the other not move at all, it allocates the "push" to whatever axle is actually "using" it. Most of the time this is unnoticeable, but in our hypothetical of one wheel spinning, the Torsen limits the spinning wheel to 75% of the amount of power going to that pair of axles - and the other tire gets some "push" and you are out of the slipperies. That's what a "Torsen" is. A differntial that does not require locks to deal with very slippery ("low Cf" - Coefficient of friction) situations. " http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi/torsen.htm if you have an impreza with 4.11 gears you can pick up a 4.11 locking rear diff from an audi with 90k miles for $250 here: http://www.sjmautotechnik.com/usedparts/S4_Parts2.html and here is a link to all the information I have compiled so far: http://eagle.bsd.st/~dertow/links/audidifflock.txt

yes it's a torsen from an audi quattro. but it does lock... my daily driver is an audi that has this locking rear, and when I lock it and drive on dry pavement or in circles it binds just like a regular locked rear....

I'm in the process of seeing how viable it will be to put a locking rear diff from an audi into my xt6... will let you all know how it works out

yeah that's what I thought... I'll be setting mine up that way for winter hopefully <edit> sorry for hijack just thought it was useful info </edit>

FWIW I don't think Qman is using any body lift at all

well you're pretty OT too man... how wide are your tires, I'd like to know? (seems others would too)

my '88 xt6 fwd auto could light up the tires... when it felt like it

no show

looks like I'm headed to Harry's in Hazelton next weekend (probably friday night then sleeping in car as it's a 6 hour drive and the sale ends saturday afternoon) for their $65 engine sale to pick up an EJ22 for the legacy...hoping maybe some of ya'll will be able to meet me or make a run down there around the same time?

make one. with the resources from the board it'll probably only take an hour or two?

make one. with the resources from the board it'll probably only take an hour or two?

sorry I just left dallas so I could make it to the party at your house on time!

I like having the inverter for things like charging camera battery (no car charger) plugging in/charging laptop, etc, etc

so it goes

that's a real nice avatar you got there mudduck...