Date:         Sat, 15 Jan 2005 15:42:37 +1300
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:      Re: Duals??
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>  > Subject: Duals??
>>  An acquaintance is going to modify his 2WD camper to a dual wheel rear
>>  after his brother in law did his and found his off road traction greatly
>>  increased and didn't sink into soft ground as much.
>>  Has anyone ever tried this on a vanagon? My only dual experience is with
>>  military vehicles and on those the rims were specialized with extreme
>>  offsets so that one could be reversed and bolted through the other and
>  > they butted up against each other.


With an IRS setup I doubt "ordinary" dual wheels will work well. If
these vans have any camber change over the length of wheel travel,
this would wear one or both tires rapidly along the outer edges and
also stress the wheelbearings, possibly causing premature failure (a
chronic problem with Subaru's Alcyone SVX).

You COULD use narrow duals such as were an option on some Japanese
vans, but these are very small in diameter. They would however
probably fit inside your Type 2's wheelarches.
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut

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