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Subject:Re: Duals??
From:Robert Cardo
Date:Fri, 14 Jan 2005 00:26:29 -0600

No Problem.
But the wheels are going to have to be severly offset so one will go
into the wheel well the other will butt up to the face of the center of
the inside wheel with the opposite offset.
The only problem I can forsee is the inside wheel rubbng on the control
arm.
It would have to sit in the wheel well pretty deep, or have the outside
wheel sit pretty far outside of it if the offset isn't enough.
I'd like see this aborition myself.
Then a large set of flares would be necessary to cover the outside
rubber.
Interesting concept, but I'm having a hard time imagining it.

RC

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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.
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