Why not gasser rear enging?
What is against rear engine gassers, and front engine diesels? Just wondering? Same goes for the common pickup truck diesels in the rear?
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frankdamp wrote:
Actually, Bill, I don't think there would be any major redesign to put the Ford V-10 and its existing drive train in a pusher, just the simple addition of a 1:1 pair of gears to reverse the output shaft rotation. Alternatively, the V-10 could be mated to a pusher transmission such as the Allison.
Special Interest Vehicles did theirs using a ZF transmission, as I remember.
Sure it could be done. But the problem isn't in the design. Having worked as an engineer involved with product design I know that manufacturers prefer to minimize the need to produce and stock any more parts and designs than necessary. They now prefer to share major assemblies with multiple vehicles using standardized parts that are well proven. This way they can simplify their manufacturering process with fewer parts inventories and longer production runs between change overs. And they are very reluctant to introduce new products for small markets. Given todays trend towards reduced "just in time" inventories" and minimized costs there would have to be major demand before they would make that change. Not sure the RV industry would welcome the change either. I'm sure they prefer the DP profits.
