Elementary My Dear Watson - A technical mystery!

went back and looked again,thats definitely a turbo 350,i saw a picture of a jeep with a sickle mower mounted underneith the jeep with the bar out the side,could this be the pto for it?

 

Could the blanking plate be the access for a chain drive??? Maybe the drive output for a Ramsey or Braden winch? Or a chain driven auxiliary unit?
I'll buy the trany and adapter tube to the Tnx case. Sometimes the cover plate on a PTO access has a bulge for gear clearance. The external PTO is then bolted to the Trany. It seems that the access isn't a gear to gear, it might be a gear to chain PTO. It will be "Interesting" to see the answer my dear Watson.

 

interesting arrangement indeed

 

I like the Zamboni idea, the master cyl at the rear would be the brake to 'slide' it around the corner. Would explain why the driveshaft was so short, it wouldn't move much, as well as they are geared really low, and if it is a PTO it would drive the pumps or whatever it is Zambonis use. Not to mention the automatic would be ideal for that situation.

 

It is an early version of a flux capacitor.

 

I vote for Zamboni. The rear MC makes sense, along with the linkage for the transfer case. PTO would have been used to operate the machine itself. With the MC mounted in the rear, that would tell me only the rear wheels had brakes (Zamboni). What production Jeep on the road would not have front brakes?

Obviously we would all love to see a few more pics, especially the rear end, and even the steering setup.

 

Here is a copy of the Zamboni model A that was built with a jeep drivetrain and gear.

Not sure what this thing is but I don't hink its a Zamboni model jeep. There was a Model B, C, D, E and F all with a jeep chassis. They were built from 1950 thru 1964 but there were'nt more than about 200-300 of them built in total. The E was the 1st production unit and they only made 20 of them in 2 years.

 

Is the front driveshaft even connected?

 

I don't see a front drive shaft.

Andrew

 

defenitly starting to lean tword the zamboni,that plate on top looks like where the upward chaindrive in the schematic would go,the auto trans would make perfect sense less linkages to adapt and the rear master cylinder would be easy enough to have been put back there for the pedel for the rear driver,very interesting indeed my dear watson,had never herd of a zamboni till this thred

 

Zamboni's would never have had a turbo 350 in them. Zamboni had stopped using Jeep frames before the turbo 350 was ever built.

 

Patrick, I think that fact is even mentioned on the Zamboni website.

 

this is a very interesting thread.i can't wait to see what that thing is.bob

 

I vote for a FC type of top drive pto. like you would need to drive a winch on a wrecker.

the Zamboni is a VERY close 2nd. It could have been rebuilt at some point with a turbo 350.

 

as i recall the turbo 350 was introduced in 1969,and had the same spline count on the output shaft as a powerglide,now i will be the first to admit i know nothing about a zamboni,but were the zamboni's powerglide era? if so this could have been a upgrade