customs question

I've been thinking about this a while and I don't know. If I were to build a custom, ratrod, whatever and wanted to put two dually rear ends under the back how could I link them to put power to both rear ends like you would a big rig.

 

So you want to make it a tandem rear axle?

 

Yeah. I think it would look good but what's form without function. It would be like adding speakers to a car and never running the wires

 

Looks heavy, a weight of a 4dr V8 Maverick heavy.

 

I thought you were shipping something over the border

 

very interesting considering the black and white 4 door maverick with the 400 big block is almost done. guessing i could put it across the scales later

 

You need tracks!

http://surferjerry.com/machines/end-of-the-world/

 

Do a search on 18 wheelers, use to have a belt that connected both axles and ran between the wheels.

 

If you do this on a ratrod of such,,, 99.99% of the time the ONLY function of your tandem axle will be looks,,,

 

Looks cheap....

 

if you do that chances are you wont have enough weight on the front end. this will cause steering problems. have you ever tried to move a tandom axle trailer by hand and try turning it. it binds. those two rear ends with wheels and tires will be well over 1000 lbs. to over come 1000 lbs on 8 tires all pointed the same direction is very hard to do.

 

It's too bad the big three never made a non-commercial tandem axel truck. Seems only the big semis had the dual-drive rear axels set-ups, and they're really too heavy for street applications

Would work well with a monster truck though

 

It is a cool idea...

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I found an 80's Ford medium/heavy truck shop manual that had the 2sp rear axles in it. I have a friend who wants to install one in his F450. I thought that was a stretch. Tandems are a little over the top for me.