Battery powered landy
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Trewey
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I've seen the plans for sale on e-bay.
Pikey
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khaos
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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.
thought it was mine!
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some of them are old ride on lawn mowers with a body placed on top.
G-man
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or do everything you said except use a moped engine and autobox... makes it more fun
yep - twist n go is the way to go
livers
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get a jimny and some cardboard and duct tape for the body
ricc
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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
disco2shaun
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me personally would buy a 1 cylinder diesel engine what they use in gennys. its gotta sound the part too
johnny curt 1
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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
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
johnny curt 1
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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
