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Old 05-19-2009, 01:10 PM   #1
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Re: If someone wanted to drive this......

now that would be a camper in the size fit for my family

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Old 05-19-2009, 03:48 PM   #2
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Re: If someone wanted to drive this......

That would be the ultimate conversion! Back roads would be tough tho...clearance issues, tight roads...
Although I have seen these doubles in the city & they have the same turning radius as a single body.
I wonder if it could be titled as an rv?
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Old 05-19-2009, 09:08 PM   #3
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think it would be reasonable to make a dog-nozed modified to pull the BACK of a diesel pusher? can they be wired together to have the same acceleration?

now that is a great idea! Dual bus engines! very redundant, and plenty of hill climbing power.....you'd need 2 rear axles i think....or perhaps you could just swap an axle from a a semi truck truck that has drive shaft inputs on the front and the back....On a tandem axle truck it would be the axle closes to the front. The drive shaft from the trans connects to the front of the axle, then a driveshaft comes off the back to feed power to the rear axle.



it's a terrible idea...but seems very appealing to me for some reason. it's completely unnecessary, but would be an oddity. The better option is just to put a more powerful engine in a bus.
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Old 05-19-2009, 09:30 PM   #4
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i didn't realize you meant 2 engines in a bus that hinges in the middle.......that might be more problematic, since the hinges are the weak point in those buses. Adding more hp/torque to the equation is probably more trouble than it' worth.
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Re: If someone wanted to drive this......

push/pull configuration like a cat 621 pan scraper/earthmover?
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push/pull configuration like a cat 621 pan scraper/earthmover?
like this one eh? one engine in front, one in back



here is a 60 footer that just ended on ebay for $3,300

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lapeer you could have put 2 jaccuzies in there.
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lapeer you could have put 2 jaccuzies in there.
2 large jacuzzi's full of babes and then go 4 wheeling
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