From: Employee@MilVeh.com
Date: Thu Jul 03 2003 - 12:04:32 PDT
Keep in mind when you have 4 rear wheels tracking
outside the front wheels, it means you are cutting new
ground and likely hitting different obsticals in
addition to the obsticles already in your 6 wheel
track. Also, and a very minor point, but the further
out from the center of your diiferential to the
furthest extention of your axle, i.e. that outter
wheel, the more horsepower it takes to turn that
wheel. I doubt you could notice the difference, but
its there.
Physics also says its true that the ground pressure is
less with 10 wheels than 6, but tests show the in-line
wheel system is overall the better system for the
reasons mentioned. More recent tests show that 4
wheels up to 1.5 tons is probably better yet and I
guess that is why the military is dropping the old
deuce for more European style truck.
As to the safety issue when getting a rear wheel flat,
seems to me that the remaining 1 good rear wheel
should give enough support to keep pressure off the
flat wheel to at least get it to a spot where fixing
could be done safely and without risking much damage
to the flat tire. I'm not sure on that, it's just my
dumb opinion after looking at how its set up.
-Jack
> It looks like the singles would be easier to get
> stuck off road, due to
> losing a lot of surface area and having more ground
> pressure.
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