Wild idea

[DJonezy13]

I need some help, not sure if it's real or not. I'm looking to find a make that had a 4wd front axle with a center pumpkin but am starting to doubt it's existence. Needs to be steerable. Or! A steerable rear axle with center pumpkin

 

[Curious Hound]

Most that I know of are offset to either driver side or passenger side, because the transfer case output shaft is off to one side. Even many rear axles are slightly offset.

 

[Brain75]

I think if you go way way back into the ancient stuff, custom aftermarket conversions like the marmom-herrington (that is F1 1948 -1952 ish) were perfectly center. That said, M-H are more rare than diamonds, if you find one DONT cut it up. there is a host of guys who will beg for it. Past the first gen of 4x4 aftermarket when you get into factory OEM, I think that almost all are off center. Might check early Jeep - that's just a guess.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I think if you go way way back into the ancient stuff, custom aftermarket conversions like the marmom-herrington (that is F1 1948 -1952 ish) were perfectly center. That said, M-H are more rare than diamonds, if you find one DONT cut it up. there is a host of guys who will beg for it. Past the first gen of 4x4 aftermarket when you get into factory OEM, I think that almost all are off center. Might check early Jeep - that's just a guess.

Pretty sure early Jeep is offset.

There really isn’t much that isn’t offset until you get into the heavy truck stuff.

Oh and diamonds aren’t rare at all, just there’s a huge market control inflating the prices. A lot of other gemstones are far more rare.

An enterprising fellow with a fat wallet could custom build a center diff steerable axle by shortening one axle tube and lengthening the other then getting custom shafts…

 

[pjtoledo]

I need some help, not sure if it's real or not. I'm looking to find a make that had a 4wd front axle with a center pumpkin but am starting to doubt it's existence. Needs to be steerable. Or! A steerable rear axle with center pumpkin

GM put some of those on full size pickups a few years ago.

a centered front diff/pumpkin/driveshaft would be directly under the engine. that would need a lot of extra room.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

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John Deere, CNH, Agco etc... all over the country.

 

[don4331]

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John Deere, CNH, Agco etc... all over the country.

I'm not sure you'd want that in your Ranger

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I'm not sure you'd want that in your Ranger

He never said what it was going into

 

[Brain75]

Never thought of going Ag, but yeah that opens a ton of options... Like I said, jeep was a total guess. There was a lot of snow plow, and other forms of aftermarket conversions done in the early days, Marmom was only the first name on my tongue, problem is these guys ordered "cab and chassis" (no bed, sometime no cab, just a wooden bench sitting on a frame and motor) from Ford, disassembled and rebuilt em how they wanted, then sold em... like 500 units a year.... fast forward 80+ years now and 480 of those have been crushed and there are 5 or 6 specimens "known" about with a max of probably 20 per model year even remaining. I even spent a ton of time hunting down one that "might" have been used in a movie in 1954-1958. Turns out it wasn't, but it's an interesting story on Glenn Ford and the movie Cowboy (1958)... this brought me back to one of the pix, and I can tell ya even Marmon-Herrington's didn't have centered pumpkins in 1951 (we are 99.9%) sure that is a 1951 shown courtesy of the guys over at ford-trucks.com - that's a big truck by the way F2 and the M-H adds a couple inches height, although it was titled by the thread owner as being a 1951 M-H Ranger so hey it has ranger in the name...:

 

[Jim Oaks]

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