I can't really lie about it anymore

"No, I don't thank you for the fish at all" (notindetroit) 12/03/2015 at 11:11 • Filed to: None

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When I first heard the term “welded differential” I thought it meant this and wondered how the hell did it make your car better or even go anymore.

AkursedX > No, I don't thank you for the fish at all 12/03/2015 at 11:15

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I won’t lie. I wondered the same thing too. Then I found out what it really meant and I was like ‘Yeah, I’m dumb.’

For Sweden > No, I don't thank you for the fish at all 12/03/2015 at 11:18

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So you thought the descriptor “welded differential” was accurate.

Shame.

6Cylinder > No, I don't thank you for the fish at all 12/03/2015 at 11:18

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I’ve always wondered if that picture is a joke or someone seriously welding the ring and pinion.

It also appears to be outside of the diff case, so it would be off anyway.

Matt Nichelson > No, I don't thank you for the fish at all 12/03/2015 at 11:19

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Don’t worry. We all have our moments. I just got a reply from a comment I made in another post saying the paddle shifters in my car do shift down, you just have to push them forward. I’ve had it since September and had no clue, just thought I could only shift up with them. Such. An. Idiot.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > Matt Nichelson 12/03/2015 at 11:22

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Amoore100 > No, I don't thank you for the fish at all 12/03/2015 at 11:33

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I’m a bit sheepish to say I still don’t know what it means...anyone care to explain?

Matt Nichelson > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 12/03/2015 at 11:33

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Hah! That one got a laugh. Eh, at least I will own this one. I shoulda got better edjumuhcated.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Amoore100 12/03/2015 at 11:39

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The spider gears in a differential (what makes it a “differential”) are the gears in the middle which, through wizardry, allow one wheel to move faster and one wheel slower around a curve. Welding those gears in place that means the wheels go the same speed around a curve, which means breaking traction and doriiiifto.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > 6Cylinder 12/03/2015 at 11:40

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It was an elaborately orchestrated forum trolling.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > Matt Nichelson 12/03/2015 at 11:49

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You did get better edjumuhcated. You only learn by asking questions, or perhaps reading the owner’s manual :)

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > For Sweden 12/03/2015 at 11:50

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The part that makes the two sides actually “differential” *is* the part getting welded. “Welded ring and pinion” is totes different.

Amoore100 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/03/2015 at 11:52

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That’s what I thought...so I guess the point is just that the picture at the top isn’t of a differential?

HammerheadFistpunch > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/03/2015 at 11:53

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Coming to say that. This is a welded ring and pinion, had this idiot been literal and welded the differential he would still have a driveline.

HammerheadFistpunch > Amoore100 12/03/2015 at 11:54

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ring and pinion, which connect to the differential

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Amoore100 12/03/2015 at 11:57

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People use the phrase “differential” to refer to the whole unit, which on a RWD or AWD/4WD rear axle is typically a ring and pinion gear with a gear carrier, the spider gears, and the supports/bearings for all that. The picture comes from an elaborate forum troll - a guy pretending to have heard the phrase “welded diff” for welding spider gears and to have subsequently welded the wrong thing in his differential *unit*. The pic at top can’t turn, because no power can be transmitted through the ring and pinion. Rather than having a differential unit that is now just a change-of-direction drive box to the axles (welded spider gears), the above makes a lump of scrap iron that is utterly useless because the vehicle can’t be driven that way.

RallyWrench > Matt Nichelson 12/03/2015 at 11:58

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No, no, no. You’re doing it wrong! This is the internet, where you’re supposed to berate the person trying to educate you with a run-on sentence of profanity and insults, not learn from them! And you admitted that you were wrong!?!??

Matt Nichelson > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 12/03/2015 at 12:16

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This is true!

Matt Nichelson > RallyWrench 12/03/2015 at 12:20

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Hehe true! I failed all around huh? I’ll try harder next time. ;)

Urambo Tauro > No, I don't thank you for the fish at all 12/03/2015 at 12:25

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I used to think that any four-wheeled automobile that wasn’t 4WD, was therefore a 2WD.

Then I watched a guy try to pull a stuck trailer out of the ground, and realized that “1WD” exists (on a pickup truck of all things). BLEW. MY. MIND. Open diffs suck.

Textured Soy Protein > No, I don't thank you for the fish at all 12/03/2015 at 13:33

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Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > No, I don't thank you for the fish at all 12/03/2015 at 14:46

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Technically, that IS a welded diff.