Battery powered landy

Hi, at a few shows I have been to in the past I have seen children driving about in scaled down battery series and 90's. I'd love to build one for my two and wondered if anyone had any plans to build them or where to get the plans?

Cheers Bub.

I've seen the plans for sale on e-bay.

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Personally, I'd build a simple ladder chassis out of box section and take the steering from something like a go kart. Don't bother with suspension and stick a 12v motor in powered by a car battery. Then you can charge the battery with a normal charger. Get the pedal from a golf cart then it should have the variable speed you need. Then it's just a case of making a body, which will probably be the hard part.

some of them are old ride on lawn mowers with a body placed on top.

khaos said:

Personally, I'd build a simple ladder chassis out of box section and take the steering from something like a go kart. Don't bother with suspension and stick a 12v motor in powered by a car battery. Then you can charge the battery with a normal charger. Get the pedal from a golf cart then it should have the variable speed you need. Then it's just a case of making a body, which will probably be the hard part.

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or do everything you said except use a moped engine and autobox... makes it more fun

G-man said:

or do everything you said except use a moped engine and autobox... makes it more fun

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yep - twist n go is the way to go

my mate jess is doing one for his lad, he got a mobility scooter. dont know how far he is with it tho.

get a jimny and some cardboard and duct tape for the body

i did contemplate fitting a battery bank and motor to the disco.... dissconnect the front prop from the transfer box and connect it to the motor..... then youd have the choice of diesel rwd or electric fwd, might actually fit better the other way round.... then use a wind turbine for charging overnight....occasionally threten the kids with buying milk float for the scool run....time i went and earned a crust

me personally would buy a 1 cylinder diesel engine what they use in gennys. its gotta sound the part too

i have a couple of yanmars here, ideal

genny engines tend to be a bit screamy

briggs n stratton 4 stroke 5hp cement mixer engine or the honda equivalent the hardest part of making a toylander is bending the alu bonnet to the right shape and the cyrves on the front wings but the rest is just plywood

and as fer looking the part gotta use a set of 8" trailer wheels with the 4 stud hubs wich fit great on austin mini /metro hubs with the stub axles for the steering rack just shorten the arms on a mini steering rack and youve cracked it

me dad has the original toylander plans from the seventies before it was toylander its originaly indespension that did the plans to work with the alco trailer parts they sold kind of universal things really im currently looking for a decent clutch for the briggs or maybee the engine out of a kiddies quad with the disc brake for the axle

hi guys did any of you go for the toylander? just wondered how you got on and what problems you encountered??

tomo-tdi said:

hi guys did any of you go for the toylander? just wondered how you got on and what problems you encountered??

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had a few problems with building mine i need 2 more stub axles with the bearing hubs to fit an 8" trailer wheel soon as i have these parts its hi ho off to the scrappy we go for the box section fer the chassis rails and front axle

i got a suffolk 30" mower sat in the shed ready to donate an engine clutch and low range gear transfer box

Ordered the drawings last night for one so just waiting now