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Originally Posted by svx_commuter
This may be the early signs of the RWD failing. This happened to me and it was a bad transfer valve solenoid assy. Be careful as there may be times when the car will pull/steer you off the road. It was rather quick, the involuntary steering that is, for me.
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Originally Posted by oab_au
I think what is going on in the US model is, as a number of people have said, is the transfer clutch not working. In this case when clutch does not drive the back wheels, for the usual reasons. The front wheels start to spin, when this happens the TCU does not turn the power down, it just applies the transfer clutch, to move some of the torque to the back wheels. Then as far as the TCU is concerned if the front wheels are still spinning, than all the wheels are spinning, we know this condition is allowed to happen, eg in snow etc.
So if the US model experiences this severe torque steer problem, then the transfer clutch is not working, as it would not be possible to spin the front wheels, under normal AWD conditions. It would be the same if the FWD fuse were inserted.
So the front diff WILL, have an unusual amount of torque shock loading under these conditions, that could cause damage to it. Thinking back, there have been a number of Front diff failures, maybe this has been the cause?????
Funny how these things all come together in the end, to show the cause.
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Thank you both for posting this. I just posted a thread 'Torque Steer' then deleted it when I saw this thread's heading in the search. I am experiencing torque steer and I was wondering why this is the case. I only experienced it the last couple of days. This was right after my last dyno session in which the rear wheels did not want to turn at the same time the front ones did.
So...this all points to the transfer clutch. I just want to say thanks for these old posts. They become very useful.
I am bumping this up just in case anyone else recently has experienced this problem. Now....I have to find out how to go about getting a bad transfer valve solenoid assy. *sigh* SUCKS!!!!
Is this part expensive?