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Originally Posted by lm6y
Easy Lubey, AWD has a differential in the transfer case that will allow the front, and rear tires to spin at different speeds, usually allowing the torque bias to go to the tires that are gripping the most. 4WD sends torque equally to both front, and back all the time.
Flatbutt, I've never heard of 4X4 CAUSING a flip over on ANY type of surface. Now can it make someone with a less than optimal grasp of physics ten feet tall and bullet proof? I've seen that many times, and it never really ends well.
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Yup, that help thanks! I explained that the 4X4 was fixed while AWD wasn't. He asked me to draw it out and thats when things got dicey. Prolly the site 'How it works" would be a good pictorial instead of my scratches
I did a decent job explaining torque convertors though, used the idea of two fans facing each other and instead of having air between them they have oil. One is driving the other driven and the fluid is pushing the blades. While the idea that fluid could transfer such power is difficult to understand until you start messing with hydraulics and what not.
I gotta get a good gear set up to explain it better - using a real gear box would be pretty heavy and costly. A working plastic model of different transmissions would be cool. I gotta look into that.