Miata Mailing List: June 1996, Message #45
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   From: Joseph F Guerrero 
Subject: LSD or not LSD
   Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 21:05:52 -0400

 I am curious.  Are there definitive ways to distinguish 
 whether you have a limited-slip differential?  (Other 
 than peeling out on wet or dry pavement)
 
 Today, while changing the shocks on my 92, I turned one of the 
 rear wheels and the other one turned in the same direction.
 Now I keep hearing that if you turn one wheel and the other
 turns in the same direction, you have LSD. If it turns in 
 the opposite direction, it is non-LSD.  When I bought the 
 car used, I assumed the car did not have an lsd, and from
 driving the car, I don't think it has a limited slip diff.
 
 Can someone clear these rules up.
 
 If you turn one wheel, and the other wheel
 a.  turns in the same direction, you have...
 b.  turns in the opposite direction, you have... 
 c.  does not turn, you have...
 
 Thanks for putting up with my ignorance,
 Joe G
 '92 Silver A