From: kuhrick (kuhrick@comcast.net)
Date: Wed Jun 11 2003 - 23:54:26 PDT
At 08:29 PM 6/11/03 -0700, Jim Newton wrote:
>Hi All...
>
>A while back I saw a write up on an experimental HMMWV being evaluated
>by the military that was fitted as a hybrid...electric generator
>connected to the diesel engine, and a powerful electric motor at each
>wheel.
>
>Since there were no drive lines or drive axles, all four wheels could
>mechanically steer, and they could steer really tight...all the way to
>90 degrees each way! This was great for parallel parking!
>
>The really cool part was that it could also pivot about its center
>like a tank by reversing the motors on one side and forwarding the
>motors on the other. It just spun right around with the wheels all
>pointed straight!
>
>I believe it had the same standard 6.5 diesel engine connected to a
>generator instead of the transmission and transfer case. No batteries
>were needed that I can remember, so the weight was comparable to a
>standard HMMWV.
one i seen on tv had a vw rabit motor a 4 banger any way
>I just looked on Google and found this one, but I think it is
>different than the one I saw but similar specs:
>
> http://www.pei-idt.com/hmmwv1.htm
>
>I don't see anything on GL right now. ;)
>
> >> But seriously, whether somebody has tried it or not, it might be much
> >> easier to do on a HMMWV than on the typical truck, because the rear
> wheels
> >> are already mounted on ball joints with CV joints on the half-shafts, and
> >> are held in place by adjustable radius rods, which could
> hypothetically be
> >> attached to some sort of steering mechanism instead of directly to the
> >> frame. Maybe a hydraulic steering cylinder, slaved off the front steering
> >> system in some fashion, would be a way to do it.
> >
> >My point exactly. And thinks about the reduced turning radius and diagonal
> >parking. I've seen a movie of a hmmwv with 4ws at www.amghummer.com, but
> >that seems to be a "2 steering wheels" implementation.
> >
> >Now that some of the new GM trucks have 4WS, I would imagine there'd be some
> >newly-inspired interest in it.
> >
> >Vadim.
> >
> >
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>
>Jim "Ike" Newton
>
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>
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