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You can shim viscous diffs. Apparently it helps. I'm not entirely sure why, because viscous centres only really do any slip limiting by allowing slip to actually start - they work by the fluid inside resisting the relative motion between the sides. I wouldn't have thought they'd be adjustable by the amount of pre-load applied by shims.

You can shim viscous diffs. Apparently it helps. I'm not entirely sure why, because viscous centres only really do any slip limiting by allowing slip to actually start - they work by the fluid inside resisting the relative motion between the sides. I wouldn't have thought they'd be adjustable by the amount of pre-load applied by shims.

the guy at my local diff place say viscous aint shimable...now im confused :S

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viscous diffs are shimmable , the shims put more pre load onto the viscous coupling meaning the 2 plate things inside the cartridge are closer together if that makes sense?

Anyways , can anyone confirm 98-2000 manual diff ratio is 4.08?? , i'm guessing auto is 4.3?

viscous diffs are shimmable , the shims put more pre load onto the viscous coupling meaning the 2 plate things inside the cartridge are closer together if that makes sense?

Anyways , can anyone confirm 98-2000 manual diff ratio is 4.08?? , i'm guessing auto is 4.3?

What car, what engine? All listed here:

http://www.nismo.co.jp/en/products/competition/lsd/pdf/lsd_price.pdf

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