Hey folks. I've been working on a concept for a few years now to turn my 28+year old john deere lawn tractor into an off-road machine. The concept(pipe dreamut is to keep up with the atvs at the local dunes. Now if I fall short of that goal I don't care, its the atvs who are defending their superiority. Now I have a question for those experienced with transaxles. Suspension is a must out there and while the frontend is simple the rear had me stumped. Finally i thought of independent swingarms off each output shaft. If I support the original outputs with a pillow block against the trans case and another on the end of the shaft will it have enough support to take the abuse(outputs are only 3/4 inch diameter)? I have 5 inches on both outputs to work with. Can I fit the 3-4 bearings I'm thinking will be necessary onto each shaft plus a sprocket to transfer power to a 'stub' axle on the other end of the swing arm?