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[Ethel]

Pretty sure they claim the Mini one (if not all) is sealed on the Quaife website.

[R1mini]

I know what they are talking about now, they are non maintenance and sealed, but they are not sealed from oil

Cheers
david

[Ethel]

Sure I read a FAQ that suggested they are, something to do with oil recommendations.

Wouldn't it be an issue for the lifetime warranty otherwise - they'd be at the mercy of any C**p sloshing round in your gearbox or low oil level?

[roofless]

from the horses mouth.......

The Austin Rover Mini Cooper S Quaife ATB differential has many benefits over a standard open differential, including maximising traction and minimizing wheelspin, eliminating torque steer and snatching in front wheel drive cars compared to conventional LSD units, and a maintenance-free design which retains the standard oil lubrication.

[R1mini]

what can I say, I have three of all together, two of them have large holes for oil, the bike engined version is mostly sealed with small holes which are plugged with bolts, on of them is a grease nipple for filling

If they have low oil or C**p oil there will be no warranty

Cheers
David

[roofless]

what can I say, I have three of all together, two of them have large holes for oil, the bike engined version is mostly sealed with small holes which are plugged with bolts, on of them is a grease nipple for filling

If they have low oil or C**p oil there will be no warranty

Cheers
David

want to sell one? I need one for for my pro-motive conversion ( pending ) theyve quoted an extra £575.00 to supply an LSD which I believe is a quaife unit.

agree regarding warranties - it'll assume you take good care of the unit in operation.

[R1mini]

They are not for minis, fiesta/escort based I'm afriad

Cheers
David

[Ethel]

But does that imply standard lubrication of the diff or that the car it's fitted to needs no modification?

I have had another look on their site and it does look like there are some oil
ports

[Taisto]

Hi.
I have R1 engine mini and i have some proplems with generator... Too much load:lights,fan,heater,injection,compressor(pneunematic gears) and battery is dead after one day driving.
Generator pull out 14.5v in 5000rmp/min without load. I think at generator is ok , but it is too small for car? Do you have tricks to get more power from generator? Reculator mod or something?

Sorry poor english, but i am from Finland and i learn all this from McCyver....

[supermotolee]

what battery are you using the bike one or a car one? mcgyver rocks!

[Taisto]

what battery are you using the bike one or a car one? mcgyver rocks!

I have try both. Now i have 20ah gel-battery(bike). It is best of all. What battery you use? 10ah bike orginal?

[koss]

I use a 500Ah on my r1 mini with no problems.
You could easily use a car alternator by asking TTS performance parts for one of there pulleys off the supercharger kits.

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[supermotolee]

check the charging under different conditions i have worked on bikes for a while (mostly hondas mind) and vfr 800's used to not charge as well if at all when the reg rec got hot to the touch also check continuety from each wire off the alternator to ground sometimes the windings fail and short, if you get a workshop manual it should also tell you how to check the unregulaed output ... thats all i can think of at the moment

i use a car battery same as i used on my a series but i've not really driven the car properly yet

[Taisto]

Not bad idea that car alternator, but if you have get it work without that then i can too .

I have re-wired reculator + and - to direct to main. Its help lite, its ok if lights is on but when fan start voltages go under 13v... And fan is on about 80% of time. Its kill battery.

Koss ? Its that 500ah normalcar battery or bikebattery? Yamaha R1 orginal is only 10ah so that 500ah is extralarge???

My mini

[koss]

Not bad idea that car alternator, but if you have get it work without that then i can too .

I have re-wired reculator + and - to direct to main. Its help lite, its ok if lights is on but when fan start voltages go under 13v... And fan is on about 80% of time. Its kill battery.

Koss ? Its that 500ah normalcar battery or bikebattery? Yamaha R1 orginal is only 10ah so that 500ah is extralarge???

My mini

Yes its a car battery off a big diesel. I have an electric motor for reversing, that needs lots of power.
The bike battery is only good for bikes.
Another option is to have two battery's on a split charge system one for engine and one for the car.
With everything electrical going on my car at the same time it can demand more than 100A.