mid-engine F150? How do you make it work?
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mid-engine F150? How do you make it work?
My brother-in-law and I started work on Baja (prerunner type) F150 and I'm thinking about balancing out the weight distribution for jumping. I want to turn the engine around and put it in the bed of the truck (the fan will be pointing toward the the rear bumper and the t-case will be pointing toward the front bumper). How do I do it and still keep the driveline rotation correct? Is it done in the transfercase? If so, who makes a reverse rotation transfercase?
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Sounds like you will need a V-drive unit from a boat to reverse the direction of the rear driveshaft after the transmission. What you're contemplating is actually more of a rear engine than a mid engine, since the engine will likely end up being over the rear axle.
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Maybe it is me, but, I would never want an engine behind me in a truck I was jumping for that 1% of the time when everything goes wrong. It was the main reason I never bought a small mid/rear engine car no matter how neat.
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I would never want an engine behind me in a truck I was jumping...
Looks like SCS Gear makes the units for the monster trucks. I imagine they are crazy expensive.
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Edit:
Hook everything up as normal then flip the diff over so it goes the other way.
*Actually if it's a 2wd baha, as most are, running the actual rear diff from the transfer case wouldn't work unless the pinion was offset so the v-drive from transmission output would probably be the best way. You still may need to flip the diff over though.
Hook everything up as normal then flip the diff over so it goes the other way.
*Actually if it's a 2wd baha, as most are, running the actual rear diff from the transfer case wouldn't work unless the pinion was offset so the v-drive from transmission output would probably be the best way. You still may need to flip the diff over though.
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I dont remember why I was thinking about doing that same setup, but I came up with the idea of building my own t-case using only two gears. That would reverse the direction of rotation, but you would only have a single speed. I already saved the sprockets from two NP 203 t-cases to try to use as gears, and then build the case around them.
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