Patent ID: 6089340
Filing Date: 2000-07-18
Classification: B60K

Abstract:
An off-road vehicle having a steerable front axle and a front power take-off (PTO) drive coupling mounted for movement with the steerable front axle and connected by a transmission train to a PTO drive shaft projecting from the vehicle engines the PTO drive coupling and the engine PTO drive shaft being vertically offset from one another, wherein the transmission train comprises a gearbox fixedly mounted in relation to the vehicle engine and having vertically offset input and output shafts, means connecting the input shaft of the gearbox to the engine PTO drive shaft and a telescopically extendible propeller shaft connected by way of respective universal joints to the output shaft of the gearbox and the PTO drive coupling, wherein the gearbox output shaft is substantially level with the front PTO drive coupling.