I guess that maybe I'm a bit anal about doing things like setup. I believe for a setup to be of any value, you must be able to duplicate it with as much precision as possible.
One aspect of the Xray that seems to defy that notion is the Diffs. When asked, most people will give you a recommendation that the Diff should be this way or that way, looser or tighter and that how much is a matter of experience and trial/error. Manuals are the same.
That's not good enough for me. If something is to be "so tight" then that degree of tightness should be quantitative. IOW, in the best of worlds we should be able to say precisely how much. to say simply that the diff should be "so tight" is relative and without the requisite experience, "so tight" will be utterly meaningless.
There is a means of measuring tightness in degree and that is the amount of torque applied to the device in question. With the diffs and even the layshaft it should be possible to tighten the diff to some setting in a given torgue range by using a torque wrench or screwdriver. This setting may not be the same for all diffs, but a starting place/baseline could be established, in say Nm (or some fraction therof), and fine-tuned from there using the same system of measurement. That measurement could be recorded, stored and recalled for future reference. That would take much, if not all, of the guesswork out of adjusting diffs and layshaft one-ways.
So am I the only one to have considered this (I doubt it) or has someone actually gone out and used a torque device to set their diffs. If so, what have you found or established?
Or, am I simply being overly anal and barking up the wrong tree here?
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