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What is a dizzy?? It's something on top the motor?
Sorry if this has been suggested before (I havent had time to read all posts right through) why not move the engine back a little bit and have one longer and one shorter drive shaft to give you room to fit the seat lower?Depending upon how short you have to go it might give you extreme angles on the UJ's but this will only be momentarily and its not as if the beast is ever going to do 160,000 miles is it?
I am waiting to see the hydraulic schematic for how to run four wheels?
do you think it will still turn like a swarther with extra wheel on each side given the wheels are about 85" apart ?
Like this.
Baloo, Almost did not bother when I logged in and saw the 2 pm,s about banning me for being naughty Thats all water under the bridge now, here I am, see how it goes. Think of it as a strong mudguard (or fender) mount
NO....IMO that will not work. The swather works no problem because the other wheels swivel freely. A skid steer type loader works because they are almost square. usually the wheelbase is shorter than the track width. In any kind of ruts the skid steer will not work, it will just spin tires on one side.Because with the skid steer you have to drag half of the tires to turn, I think that you will limiting a vehicle that needs every bit of drive possible. Not to mention the wear and abuse of the frame when dragging it around.For steering with the trailing arm design, instead of the linkage I would use hydraulics. One cylinder on each side. The cylinders need to be the double rod end variety so they don't gain or lose displacement when they move. I think that they could be run in series to get equal movement. Change the toe in by bleeding a little oil?Your idea or running the wheel motors in series is very interesting. I don't know what the pressure drop would look like across them. I believe with any series circuit each would see 1/4 the power, however they would have to run the same RPM, so if one was trying to freewheel, it would consume no power or pressure drop, and the next motor would have more power. It just might work. Because the motors are bi-directional the back pressure shouldn't hurt anything...... I don't see a case drain in the pictures..... is there a small third port somewhere?I agree articulated steering is no good mainly because of the CG issues someone mentioned earlier.