Dual Transfer Mounting Options

[antt]

i'm looking to do a dual transfer setup in my vit with a sierra transfer behind the standard (married) vitara transfer. thanks to wes i've got the sierra transfer and hopefully tomorrow night i'll have a vitara transfer to mess around with.

but what i'm mainly after is peoples opinions/experiences/links etc. with different methods of mounting the second transfer to the first.

eg, is it better to have them mounted as a solid unit like in the following pic?



or is it fine to mount to the second transfer on a completly different crossmember and use a short jackshaft to connect them?

keep in mind at this stage this is still a daily driver, so high speed vibs are a concern

[bubs]

my personal preference would be to have them solidly mounted together

dont know why, just would

[hypo]

i wood solid mount them like in the pic prolly stronger and less vibs

[Wheeler]

i'm looking to do a dual transfer setup in my vit with a sierra transfer behind the standard (married) vitara transfer. thanks to wes i've got the sierra transfer and hopefully tomorrow night i'll have a vitara transfer to mess around with.

but what i'm mainly after is peoples opinions/experiences/links etc. with different methods of mounting the second transfer to the first.

eg, is it better to have them mounted as a solid unit like in the following pic?



or is it fine to mount to the second transfer on a completly different crossmember and use a short jackshaft to connect them?

keep in mind at this stage this is still a daily driver, so high speed vibs are a concern

I mounted that set up married to avoid to loose available space using U joints and drivedhafts.

At this stage its has being working very well, with no any problem.

The previous option that I though, was joint them using Mercedes Benz's rubbers joints, but prefered this challenge.-

[1MadEngineer]

had a vit/zuk dual setup in the buggy for 2 years and i am not putting it in the new chassis, so up for sale? I did a shorty conversion on the output side of an early vitara 3spd auto/tcase so the auto has only the reduction unit attached (and is locked in low - now). I also modified the auto to accept a 6cyl holden or v8. i am supprised the sierra box has copped a healthy 202 with a 4000+rpm stall and 1.8:1 input for so long.

although its an easy conversion, i wouldn't bother again!
Antt please explain to me why you need duals and not just reduction gears and a horsepower injection?

[antt]

had a vit/zuk dual setup in the buggy for 2 years and i am not putting it in the new chassis, so up for sale? I did a shorty conversion on the output side of an early vitara 3spd auto/tcase so the auto has only the reduction unit attached (and is locked in low - now). I also modified the auto to accept a 6cyl holden or v8. i am supprised the sierra box has copped a healthy 202 with a 4000+rpm stall and 1.8:1 input for so long.

although its an easy conversion, i wouldn't bother again!
Antt please explain to me why you need duals and not just reduction gears and a horsepower injection?

greg, i dont exactly need duals, but the rockhopper gearset for the vitara doesnt' give any reduction in high range and there's the $1700 price tag for the gears. another option i've thought of is simply removing the vitara transfer all together then running a sierra transfer with a series 3, but this would end up damn near the same price.

there is another reason behind going the duals, and thats front & rear output location from the transfer case. eventually (hopefully january) i'd like to go bundera diffs, and isn't the rear bundera diff offset to the drivers side? whereas the lux rear diff is centre'd?
with the duals and where the outputs would end up, would be nice and close to lining up with the bundera axles.

let me know more about the setup you had in the buggy, i'm very interested