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Old 12-10-2017, 09:11 AM   #29
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Doesn't torque steer usually apply to front wheel drive because the drive shafts are unequal in length due to the transmission sitting off to one side of the engine compartment? Since they are different lengths they twist at different rates and one wheel gets a bit more torque than the other. I believe the engineers compensate for this by making the unequal length shafts also unequal thicknesses so it compensates for the metal when it binds under heavy acceleration.
But what do I know, I fix computers for a living.
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