From: Nelson Fortson (tfortson@telocity.com)
Date: Thu Feb 06 2003 - 16:30:03 PST
Ignore last Post,,,Me not to observant.
Nelson
Capt. Thomas N. Fortson III
Columbia Fire & Rescue Services
Station 13 Engine 13
Columbia SC
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan M Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Replica vehicles
> Does anyone have any overt problems to pose when converting a Front
> engine'd drive chassis to a rear engined drive chassis set up?
>
> I just spent about 5 minutes drawing out a drive train that has a
> transfer box and two diffs that would have to be the same kind of
> diffs front and rear. The only trick I can figure is that if you move
> the engine to the rear, you then have to flip the transfer box around
> and then you have the resulting issue of all your shafts turning
> everything backwards. This can be solved if you flop the diffs end
> over end.
>
> Are Dodge Power wagon/M37 Diffs the same front to back? And if you
> flip them over, are there drain holes in the bottom that are also the
> same as the filler hole in the top? Would you have to rebuild the
> differential backwards in the pumpkin to get everything going
> forwards with a rear engined configuration?
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