tandem rear?

[BFB]

anyone ever build or see a buggy with tandem rear?
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[Brian]

Tandem rear, you mean like a "dually" dual tires on each rear side? I saw a picture of one, once
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[BFB]

no not dually, tandem...

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"how am i supposed to torque the rear wheel nut to 250 ft lbs??? " - clonebug
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[oprn]

Back when I was a kid Dad was buddies with our neighborhood welding shop owner, Frank Dietz. The two of them built a similar thing out of an old English Ford Prefect. It was a little 4 cylinder car, they cut the body off at the A pillar leaving the windshield in tact, lengthened the frame, added a second transmission and two more idler wheels to each side. Then they made tracks out of flat belt and small U channel iron to go around the wheels.

It worked ok but lacked steering authority so the next plan was to build skiis for the front and steering brakes for the rear but some hunter came along and had to have it as was at offered a price they couldn't refuse.

I have been kicking this idea around for my sand rail for hunting and winter use. The easy way is to adapt the tracks made for side by sides but after pricing them out it would be a luxury beyond my budget!

Some day in the future when I get other projects caught up I intend to do a home made track setup similar to that one Dad and Frank did but with just one wheel ahead of the rear driver.
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[cbeck]

I see the second axle as just a idler as the easy way out. Leave the original as the drivers.
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My cut in half and rebuild thread
www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=647779

[BFB]

well I wasn't really meaning to ask about tracks just posted those pics because that's the best I had of a tandem axle, I should've figured the tracks would become a topic just because they'd be what I talked about too! heh heh

I just saw a tracked rail for sale on skeezbay, I saved some pics and I'll post them later
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