Dual T'cases on a GQ/Mav shorty
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 10:35 pm
Just a mental exercise here since I don't have any actual plans to do this, but I was looking under the SWB maverick thinking about dual transfer cases and clearly there is not much tailshaft to work with!
So I thought - you only need about 8" more room there... but moving the rear axle back would (though awesome) be a bit of a hassle because of the shape of the chassis rails, not to mention the shape of the cabin.
Then I thought - there's a massive unarticulated handbrake assembly right after the original transfer case and the tailshaft doesn't start articulating until AFTER that.
So *if* you were thinking of putting in a second transfer case in a shorty, what about eliminating the handbrake assembly?
You'd be able to engineer a cable based handbrake at the rear discs fairly easily, I'd think, and while it wouldn't be as good as the original, well, just park it in 1st-low-low and it's not gonna roll anywhere anyway!
Am I stupid? (This is not a poll. Don't answer that one.)
Jason
So I thought - you only need about 8" more room there... but moving the rear axle back would (though awesome) be a bit of a hassle because of the shape of the chassis rails, not to mention the shape of the cabin.
Then I thought - there's a massive unarticulated handbrake assembly right after the original transfer case and the tailshaft doesn't start articulating until AFTER that.
So *if* you were thinking of putting in a second transfer case in a shorty, what about eliminating the handbrake assembly?
You'd be able to engineer a cable based handbrake at the rear discs fairly easily, I'd think, and while it wouldn't be as good as the original, well, just park it in 1st-low-low and it's not gonna roll anywhere anyway!
Am I stupid? (This is not a poll. Don't answer that one.)
Jason