Recent content by rog8811

Garden ride on to mini Jeep My right hand drive mini jeep came out of a long felt want for something that I could drive and looked cool, I don't buy things, I build them!. The mechanicals started life as a Westwood ride on mower This one came with an 11HP B&S engine and a 5 speed + reverse...

PDF's Here are the last ones, You will need to do a lot of cross referencing and calculations to get it sorted but good luck to anyone who has a go at the build :) Regards rog8811

Drawing PDF's I have had a couple of requests for drawings for the Jeep, the ones on my, now defunct, website are poor quality so I will attach better quality PDF's below. . I will say at the outset that the drawings are not fully dimensioned as I had a lot of the info in my head and never...

All finished at last! I have been working on this for far too long but at last I have finished my mini jeep. I took it out for its first run this week to test all the mechanicals, it passed with flying colours. As I was on my own for the test drive here is a self shot video of the happy event...

up and running A little update, I fitted all of the bodywork today and ran up the engine and went through the gears up on axle stands... time to refit the seats so that I can test the brakes.

Nearly there It has been a while but the jeep is nearly done, over the last months I have fitted out the interior and finished off the metal work. I tried out a bench seat from a land rover but was not happy with the look so I plumped for a couple of old stacking chairs, last week end I did...

It was seeing those other builds that decided me to post my one :thumbsup: B.M.800 said I want to try a hydro as it will make it a bit more user friendly to drive and to be honest the 5 speed is quite old. I had to shim up one of the shafts to take up a lot of wear (see photo's) I hate the...

I am now down to the bits and bobs to get it finished...But! I am awaiting a hydrodrive to replace the existing 5 speed transaxle so still some major head scratching yet to do.

Hi folks, I just came across your forum and thought you might be interested in my very long winded project...started at least 3 years ago, work keeps getting in the way!:mad: I will upload a selection of photo's over the next couple of posts to show how I got to where I am at the moment, enjoy...