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Old 06-30-2014, 01:16 PM   #11 (permalink)
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You could just put a double shafted electric motor inline with the XMSN.

A word of note my 1989 diesel suburban with a 5sp manual gets mid 20's out of the box.

If you want/need a suburban consider a low powered diesel motor (like the C-code 6.2 or 4bt), couple with a manual transmission, high rear end gears.

Get that working and learn to hypermile then add your electric drive, a 4wd t-case like they used in the old days with lockup should be able to allow you to clutch and unclutch the ev side safely, just a lot of gear noise from having the splines the wrong way.

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Ryan

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