Dodge ever make chain drive heavy trucks?

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Somebody posted this over at YB...........I'm not talking about the TIRE chains, look at the sprocket inboard of the front duals...........

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I knew some of the big old heavy / off road / logging etc "stuff" was chain, but never knew Dodge........or is this something homebrew?

 
dirty white boy said:
some rear suspension/drive set up's for big trucks were produced by different company's than the truck brand, such as hendricks and rockwell and eaton and page & page an marmon-harrington! if you really want to know more in detail post your pic and ask here American Truck Historical Society - ATHS
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Yeh I'm aware. What I was thinking is this likely is not a factory setup, maybe "home done"
 
Del, FWIW I looked through McPherson's "The Dodge Story" (Crestline Publications, 1975) pretty carefully and saw no mention of any chain-drive trucks around that period of time.
 
Wild and crazy thought...............rather than jack shaft into rear differential to drive rear axle, connect rear duel to front duel with a chain to drive............WWWAAAYYYYY back in 1962 when family went cross country in 59 Edsel station wagon(the original family truckster) on vacation I saw lots of the big trucks going up/down the road had the rear duel set driven with a v-belt
 
JBurch said:
Wild and crazy thought...............rather than jack shaft into rear differential to drive rear axle, connect rear duel to front duel with a chain to drive............WWWAAAYYYYY back in 1962 when family went cross country in 59 Edsel station wagon(the original family truckster) on vacation I saw lots of the big trucks going up/down the road had the rear duel set driven with a v-belt
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!!HUH!! Well, no kidden!!


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