differentials - good or bad

[Walter Keller]

Has anyone used the Northern Tool differential in a build?

 

[Kenny_McCormic]

Has anyone used the Northern Tool differential in a build?

The only time would think about a diff would be for a golfcart or yard kart that i didnt want tearing up the lawn.

 

[redcali]

yea it would depend on your application of the go kart.

for offroad/dusty trail i wouldnt use one

 

[I like karts]

Yeah, I was thinking about getting one of those, but I have the feeling it might slip a little too much in hard acceleration. I like hard acceleration.

 

[Walter Keller]

Diff

I was thinking using on a street cart - all the carts I had as a kid were single wheel drive.

 

[kibble]

Haven't used the Northern diff, but I did put a diff on my kart. Gives you insane control. Not good if you want to do donuts or peel out a lot though.

 

[Kenny_McCormic]

Gives you insane control. Not good if you want to do donuts or peel out a lot though.

 

[Walter Keller]

the diff

The kart will be a street kart - a coffin kart to be excact - pine box style.

 

[Roy Vanas]

 

[sayre315]

just do a single wheel drive kart

 

[newrider3]

Holy complicated mess batman.

 

[jr dragster T]

How is that limited slip if the 2 sprockets off the wheels is locked onto a solid jackshaft? The only thing slipping there is the wheels on the pavement.

 

[Kenny_McCormic]

If you replaced the secondary clutches with freewheels it would work.

 

[redcali]

the jackshaft is not solid, it rotates?

note the brakes on the jackshaft. so it is rotating..

 

[jr dragster T]

I know its a rotating jackshaft. Theres NOTHING to slip there though. No free wheels or clutches so thats aint gona slip.

 

[Roy Vanas]

when the inner wheel slows in the corner its clutch disengages & the outer that is spinning faster doesnt!..... the brakes could also be sprotors=(sprocket rotors) "safer" for cheap band brakes use an oil filter wrench! revised diagram

 

[GoAlterBridge]

A while ago I was planning a street legal kart, for fun, and if I ever actually made one I thought I would probably use a differential.

 

[2or3wheels]

i have a diff, not northen but a diff at that on this lawn mower thing(yeas pics comming), and it seems to work fine, all be it it will not break tires loose even if on ice, but its nice, it helps you get speed through corrners because one wheel isnt chattering.

 

[Roy Vanas]

flip the motorclutch & chain lenth change = 2 speed!

 

[GoAlterBridge]

That's pretty sick!