In our stock open differential which wheel is the power delievered to? Isn't it the driver side?

Joel Baldridge, ASE Certified Master Technician, Audi Certified Expert Technician

I always thought that it was the driver wheel, but when I do burnouts I lay rubber with both of 'em.

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I belive there in no specific drive wheel. The reason there seems to be on rear wheel cars especially is because the torque motion from the drive shaft creates a reaction force which causes more weight on one side of the car which would allow the other to spin more freely with high power. I dont know if it applys the same on FWD seeing that the torque is more front to rear instead of left to right

-Travis

Just because it's an open diff does not mean that only one wheel will spin. Jack your car up and start it, throw it in gear, see what happens.

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If both tires are getting equal traction, OR you get one tire spining really fast then both will spin. When I jacked my car up after the swap, the drivers side tire turned fast and the other just turned a little.

-Travis