Accuride Announces Fabco Product Enhancements
EVANSVILLE, Ind.--Today, Accuride Corporation announced that its Fabco business unit has enhanced two of its product lines to offer solutions for its customers. Fabco’s new Split Shaft Power Take Offs (PTOs) eliminate the need for an auxiliary engine, while Fabco by Sisu’s 58,000 and 70,000-lb tandem drive truck axles have been updated to allow for higher torque and load.
“By eliminating the need for an auxiliary engine to run stationary field equipment applications, such as well drilling, an owner is able to reduce both initial vehicle cost and maintenance costs,” explained Al Sunderland, President of Fabco. “In addition, our customers were looking for methods by which they could increase their payload but decrease downtime surrounding specialized heavy hauling. The redefined Sisu Tandem Drive Axle allows for higher torque and load while allowing the driver to operate at highway speed.”
Fabco released the new family of Split Shaft PTOs for energy, well drilling, and municipal service markets. The new model PTO-175 is available in 16-inch and 23-inch nominal shaft centers. A broad offering of popular declutches and direct pump mounting interfaces are available.
Additional features of the PTO-175 include:
- Forced lubrication of critical bearings in both road and PTO modes
- New proprietary lubrication pump
- External PTO declutches allow easier replacement of other makes of gearboxes
- Helical drive gearing and tapered roller bearings throughout
The new PTO-175 offers customers enhanced flexibility by using modular design to ease reconfiguring PTO types in the field. The PTO-175 also shares extensive service parts commonality with the popular Fabco TC-170 and PTO-170, allowing easy integration into existing fleets.
The Sisu planetary hub reduction axles have been established for over 15 years in North American severe service applications such as oil field, mining, heavy haul, logging and construction. The tandem drive axle family has a nominal high-speed load rating of 70,000-lb., a standard slow speed rating of 90,000-lb. with a gross combination pulling capacity of 330,000-lb. A broad range of gear ratios are available from 3.78:1 to 10.55:1.
Updates include:
- Hot formed steel axle housing with increased housing wall thickness
- Larger wheel hub bearings with larger hub spindle
- Unitized, cartridge type oil seals on all hub & differential positions
- Larger wheel-end planetary gearing with increased oil capacity
- Larger diameter axle drive shafts
Sisu model FR2P-26-S 58,000-lb. and FR2P-32-S 70,000-lb. axles are available factory installed today by several North American trucks manufacturers. The tandem axles also enable customers to produce advanced all wheel drive vehicles when integrated with Fabco Transfer Cases and Front Steer Driving Axle systems. Fabco Automotive Corporation is the exclusive distributor of Sisu Axles in North America. Fabco has one of the most complete offerings of steerable and rigid drive axles, transfer cases and specialty gearboxes for commercial vehicles. For more information, please call Fabco at 800-967-8838 or visit us on the web at www.FabcoAutomotive.com
Accuride Corporation is one of the largest and most diversified manufacturers and suppliers of commercial vehicle components in North America. Accuride’s products include commercial vehicle wheels, wheel-end components and assemblies, truck body and chassis parts, seating assemblies and other commercial vehicle components. Accurides’s products are marketed under its brand names, which include Accuride, Gunite, Imperial, Bostrom, Fabco and Brillion. For more information, visit Accuride’s website at http://www.accuridecorp.com.
