From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Mon Mar 10 2003 - 19:28:19 PST
At 8:52 PM -0800 3/10/03, Patrick Jankowiak wrote:
>That is one of the best ideas I have heard. The issue of balancing
>such a carefully made and rugged/heavy assembly would be a mechanical
>design engineer's job all right.
It's certainly possible. Could there be something out there already
that's adaptable?
>How about a two piece interaxle shaft which has a central axle inside
>it, fixed into to the front half, and free to spin in the rear half as
>with a pilot bearing, and two halves of a large dog clutch, one fixed
>on the front half and one sliding on external splines on the on the
>back half of this interaxle shaft. Lock by sliding the rear half of
>the dog clutch to the front, unlock by sliding it back? The only
>question is how to match up the dogs if they are out of sync when you
>have stopped and are crawling under the truck to do this. Lockout hubs
>seem to have some kind of spring action which helps them work once you
>have set them. i don't know how it would work with a shaft.
If and when I get the 5 ton M54, I'd be interested in a larger type
for that beast.
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Ryan Gill rmgill@SPAMmindspring.com
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