The debate of gear and ball diff begins again. First off, a lot of people that run a gear diff run it with insanely light oil so they don't even get the same 'feel' as a ball diff. With that in mind you can't make a direct comparison in less you run thick enough oil in your geared diff to give it the same 'feel'.
I've ran both, for similar periods of time. I started on 3000wt CST oil and have moved thicker to 5000wt. This makes the geared diff have the same 'feel' as a ball diff so you are then able to make direct comparisons on how each one functions differently.
For the record a gear diff isn't a nightmare in the wet. It handles pretty much the same as a ball diff if you have it set-up to feel the same. It's difficult to tell in less you change it back to back on a race meeting as the change is very subtle, they just work very differently. People that think the difference between a ball diff and a geared diff is like night and day are wrong because they've been running a completely different set-up on their gear diff to compare.
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