I was watching the show How It's Made on Youtube, and this video was in the sidebar. I already understand how a differential works, but I know that it can be a pretty confusing thing to wrap your mind around sometimes. This is by far the best explanation/demonstration video I've ever seen, and hopefully someone can make use of it here. I wish I had seen when I was trying to figure it out, spending hours just staring at a differential trying to piece together how any why everything is there.



Skip to about 2.5 minutes if you don't wanna watch the motorcycle crap.

 

Cool video! Explains the basics very well.

 

Very informational video. Good stuff.

Differentials confused me when I first purchased my ranger, but its actually pretty simple.

Thanks for the post!!

 

Great vid! Now I actually know how it all works. So I can make it better!

However, I think this one is just as good!

http://youtu.be/QqTToQcb-5c

 

thanks for sharing that. I never understood how it worked, until now.

 

Yeah but everyone understands modial interaction of magnetoreluctance and capacitive directance, especially when there's panendermic semi-boloid slots in the stator. Differentials are far more complex haha

 

Cool video!