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Brian Friend (Brianfriend)
| | Posted on Thursday, December 19, 2002 - 03:07 pm: | 
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I started thinking about this a couple of weeks ago, and after Adtoolco posted about motorized wheels in the IS thread, it got me thinking again.
A couple of weeks ago I was working an obstical and my ft left drive shaft was broken. I was locked in the rear to both sides and I had power to my front right wheel. (arb ft and rear) The obsticle was such that having power to the front right rather than both sides might have been an advantage because. I was stradling a sort of rock crevace and my right ft had good contact on a flat surface...the left side did not and was on a fairly angled slop. If I had power to the left front and had spun that tire, it might have caused me, falling into the crevace.
So...since we have the technology to lock and entire axle with the flip of a switch, has anyone heard of technology that alows you to select which side you want locked? I could see an advantage to locking one side only at times. The combinations you could create is interesting.
brian |
E Snyder
| | Posted on Thursday, December 19, 2002 - 05:30 pm: |
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I've heard of baja type vehicles with dual emergency brakes, which allowed you to transfer power from side to side in the rear manually.
Not exactly related, but interesting. I know guys that wheel open diff trucks and work the emergency brake (cable to rear disc, of course) to transfer power back and forth.
Basically the same concept that ETC is based on in the DIIs, using ABS, if I understand it correctly. |
Max Thomason (Lrmax)
| | Posted on Thursday, December 19, 2002 - 08:30 pm: |
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Brian, a setup used for dual stick X-fer case could be used for an axle. If it can be done to the center diff, then it can be done to the front or rear.
Max T. |
Peter Matusov (Pmatusov)
| | Posted on Thursday, December 19, 2002 - 08:53 pm: |
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Brian, you need manual lockout hubs.
if you want it done from inside the cab, here's the deal - Wagoneers and some other jeeps had really silly front axle disconnect: a vacuum-activated splined sleeve on the longer of the front axleshafts. I can see how one butt-ugly Dana 44 with two side disconnects can be cut-and-pasted together out of two.
peter |
Brian Friend (Brianfriend)
| | Posted on Thursday, December 19, 2002 - 10:00 pm: |
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HHHHmmm,
So it could be done. Probably not a real practicle solution but I was just curious. Anyone know if anyone is using it? |
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