Advice on Limited Slip Differential

K3WE wrote:

JimM68 wrote:

Fulltimer50 wrote:
LSD is not turned on and off with a switch.

AGAIN, That is a totally false statement. Switchable axle lockers are made and available, both factory and aftermarket. I'm mostly familiar with them on Jeeps, but if they exist there, they could exist anywhere.

Punch the button on the dash, the axles lock. Standard on Rubicon model jeeps for many years. available from aftermarket companies such as ARB on almost any vehicle. Unknown by me on most else, but that means nothing as I am not an expert on everything.

Ok...perhaps there's a terminology battle of what Webster says words mean versus what "common terminology" means.

For almost all the trucks I've seen, 'a limited slip differential' is a self contained deal that senses big speed differences between the axles and automatically locks out the differential.

Now- a system where you flip a switch and lock the differential...yeah, I guess that's gonna limit the slip a little bit too ;)

...and just because I've never seen such a system on 'typical' trucks doens't mean it doesn't exist and whether the wording "limited slip" vs. "locking" is defined by some sort of standard...I can't say.