Jake's Jeep

[OnOff]

OK, as a little distraction from our daily woes I thought I

 

[steptoe]

Started off with a single motor driving one wheel through an old Landrover sprocket but estimated the speed at about 27MPH! Nearly

 

[roys]

That is superb.

 

[a1]

Absolutely great, Mate. well done. :Applaud

My Brother actually made one, or should I say, started one YEARS AGO, he kept telling my Neice that it would be ready for her to try out, and it still isn't complete. She is 16 Year old in August. :shakehead .

Anyway, I will have to pop up his garage to take a few pic for you.

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Forgot to say, I have scoobed your too.

 

[OnOff]

Absolutely great, Mate. well done. :Applaud My Brother actually made one, or should I say, started one YEARS AGO, he kept telling my Neice that it would be ready for her to try out, and it still isn't complete. She is 16 Year old in August. :shakehead .

Anyway, I will have to pop up his garage to take a few pic for you.

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Forgot to say, I have scoobed your too.

The joke in our house is that he'll be driving a REAL car before it's finished! He's nearly 14 so quite likely! Would have been nice to have resurrected it for his sister (she's 5) but time fly's and TBH they have had great fun zipping round the garden at 8MPH on the "spares or repairs" (light front end damage) mobility scooter even before I've done anything with that!

IIRC there's an American guy called Mike Mack who has built an electrically driven COPY (about the same size as my effort) of his own real Jeep and he has a video of his WIFE and 3 kids driving in that! Clever s@d has them sitting side by side on his drive. His IS finished though! I was in contact with him a while back so will see if I can find the details.

(Posting this has just made me realise that work isn't everything! OK, I've been round the world with work but should have been "bonding" with the eldest during that time AND finishing HIS Jeep. Trying NOT to make the same mistakes with Number Two!)

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

In the hot rod/American car scene 'Tot rods' had been gaining popularity for many years now. Stupid speeds and dangerous driving followed , Link here....

https://www.youtube.com/embed/8l9l3MzCTH8?feature=oembed Unfortunatly due to idiot parents (you cant really blame the kids) & health & safety rules they have now been banned from driving at shows unless being escorted as the link. Note one parent who has a dead mans string attached to his kids ride incase it gets away.

 

[m4tty]

Nice one mate interesting read thanks. My dad built a scaled down land rover 90 with a lawn mower motor. All box section welded up with mdf shell. I'll try find some photos later and post up. Cheers

 

[kerching]

Excellent, very impressed.

I feel a winter project coming on................ :coat

First wife will probably want her kitchen finishing first though, bl00dy women; you can't live with them , you can't shoot them!

 

[OnOff]

Excellent, very impressed.I feel a winter project coming on................ :coat

First wife will probably want her kitchen finishing first though, bl00dy women; you can't live with them , you can't shoot them!

If you want "simple" thus quick, then the re-bodied mobility scooter is the way to go IMHO! If you start buying decent speed drives with regenerative braking etc then it soon mounts up. Saying that this lot do some crackers:

4QD: speed control for battery operated electric motors

 

[steptoe]

Im liking the new shell on the mobility scooter idea

now, where to get a scaled down capri body,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

[OnOff]

Im liking the new shell on the mobility scooter idea now, where to get a scaled down capri body,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

I'm planning to take the mob. scooter and widen the track / lengthen the wheel centres to approximate the Capri possibly 1/2 scale. The one I have is built on a box section chassis. Then lengthen the wiring as necessary. For wheels it'll be the red centred ones as per on the Jeep - sprayed silver they will I think look like the old Ghia wheels. Half thinking convertible or at least removable roof as bigger kids (& me) can have a go too! It will also last the kids longer!

For the sizes I have this:

I've dragged this into AutoCAD and had a quick go at drawing a line around it - very rough. The "pattern" is split into A4 sheets so they can be printed off and glued onto 2 sheets of ply clamped together. These will form the two sides. Thinking to then split them lengthways possibly along the the centreline of the petrol cap so it doesn't end up looking too square like Postman Pat's van!

You do realise don't you that I've now got to build the bl@@dy thing! Now where to find a V6 for it..............

 

[steptoe]

I really wish had the the resources and ability for this sort of thing!

you could always bung a little bike engine into it!

how much HP do you reckon you need? 45BHP would be pretty shifty, but not so torquey, a little 4T 125 puts out about 27 and is pretty torquey [relatively] for what it is.

 

[m4tty]

Heres a picture of the one my dad built. It was for my eldest but hes now 11 so the youngest now 4 loves it but the eldest (in the picture) still goes in it but its bit small for him. Engine pulls it no probs but surface has to be quite flat as if driving wheel loses contact it goes nowhere lol.

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[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

I know this guy from many car shows. He has built some amazing cars just to beat records.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/6GBwWodOIs0?feature=oembed

 

[OnOff]

I really wish had the the resources and ability for this sort of thing!you could always bung a little bike engine into it!

how much HP do you reckon you need? 45BHP would be pretty shifty, but not so torquey, a little 4T 125 puts out about 27 and is pretty torquey [relatively] for what it is.

I think if they're little'uns then electric is the way to go. Lets be honest Toys R Us sell loads of those 6V plastic jobbies but they run down quick. The mobility idea will give about 8MPH for a good long time which is the key I think and with decent tyres be good for the garden. I've a 4-stroke petrol engine off of a Suffolk Punch which me and my lad were playing with - to couple to an old go-cart frame - another unfinished project. Intent was just for chugging round the garden in and hauling a bit of garden waste /building materials. Also got an old MTD ride on mower where the cutting deck has rotted away - about 5.5HP from memory. But petrol and kids, hot exhausts etc??

For the older kid this is good:

Product: Build Your Own Off-Road Buggy

125cc and upwards bike engine I think!

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I know this guy from many car shows. He has built some amazing cars just to beat records.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/6GBwWodOIs0?feature=oembed

I saw this and thought..........this has got to be a WIND UP! :coat

 

[a1]

Heres a picture of the one my dad built. It was for my eldest but hes now 11 so the youngest now 4 loves it but the eldest (in the picture) still goes in it but its bit small for him. Engine pulls it no probs but surface has to be quite flat as if driving wheel loses contact it goes nowhere lol.View attachment 3901

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Brilliant mate - Thanks.

 

[steptoe]

I think if they're little'uns then electric is the way to go. Lets be honest Toys R Us sell loads of those 6V plastic jobbies but they run down quick. The mobility idea will give about 8MPH for a good long time which is the key I think and with decent tyres be good for the garden. I've a 4-stroke petrol engine off of a Suffolk Punch which me and my lad were playing with - to couple to an old go-cart frame - another unfinished project. Intent was just for chugging round the garden in and hauling a bit of garden waste /building materials. Also got an old MTD ride on mower where the cutting deck has rotted away - about 5.5HP from memory. But petrol and kids, hot exhausts etc??For the older kid this is good:

Product: Build Your Own Off-Road Buggy

125cc and upwards bike engine I think!

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I saw this and thought..........this has got to be a WIND UP! :coat

lets be honest about this,

the capri isnt for the kids!!!!!!!

deffo battery for the little ones, like you said, much safer in comparison.

as for those plans for buggies etc, its really not that hard for the likes of you to design your own, the big thing I would say is DONT use box section,

round bar all the way, there just isnt enough give in box, round will flex a little and not crack the same.

 

[OnOff]

Heres a picture of the one my dad built. It was for my eldest but hes now 11 so the youngest now 4 loves it but the eldest (in the picture) still goes in it but its bit small for him. Engine pulls it no probs but surface has to be quite flat as if driving wheel loses contact it goes nowhere lol.View attachment 3901

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They do reckon you spend more time on your grandchildren than on your own! What a fantastic job he's done there, his own design? What engine exactly? Couldn't view the first attachment but that paint finish looks good too.

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lets be honest about this,the capri isnt for the kids!!!!!!!

deffo battery for the little ones, like you said, much safer in comparison.

as for those plans for buggies etc, its really not that hard for the likes of you to design your own, the big thing I would say is DONT use box section,

round bar all the way, there just isnt enough give in box, round will flex a little and not crack the same.

You might be right there......maybe if I build the kids a scale one they'll get the bug & help me finish my two real ones!

 

[steptoe]

What engine exactly?

looks a bit like something out of a suffolk punch. [?]

 

[m4tty]

I'll post some more pics tomorrow as I'm going round there and find out all the details but yes all his own design scaled from his landy 90 but me dad was a mechanic, welder & sprayer so gave him something to do. Unfortunately now he can't lift it as he's terminally Ill so I get it out for kids and also stick it in back of transit and take it round park. Always waiting for the plastic police to turn up and have a go but as its a law mower motor it's not too loud and it's not like theyre flying around. It's geared down so not too fast. Was originally chain driven but been converted to belt driven now.

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Is Suffolk something steps could be colt ??