Manco Dingo - i could use help upgrading rear wheels

[Possom Point]

These are from eBay, I bought this set for my dingo recently. Priced right for painted wheels, 4x4 bolt pattern. Yes it says a metric bolt pattern, do the conversion and it adds up. Sucks spending extra money on unaccounted for things, which I’m sure most of us do, but these things happen.

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[Functional Artist]

Many golf cart wheels use the 4 x 4 bolt pattern
...& they available in narrow & wide (~3" wide & others are ~6" wide)

I'm using these on my Sequoia kart
https://www.ebay.com/itm/165450044896

 

[Denny]

Golf kart wheels and trailer wheels have the same 4x4 lug pattern.

 

[Rat]

It seems a lot of people opt for and adapter plate that mates the metric wheel to the standard hub.

I'm wondering if this is what you guys would do?

If it came down to necessity, definitely.
I have the same issue with my Kawasaki Mule because 4/137 is a metric (and very specific) bolt pattern.

It does make a wider stance and will help accommodate the larger rear tire with the frame, but these adapters aren't exactly cheap.

Both depend on the wheel offset.
My Mule has 8" wide rims with a 5/3 offset (5" outside, 3" at the brake side) so if that puts my tires at 36" on center, a pair of 1" adaptive spacers would move that to 38" on center with more brake drum exposed.

A wheel offset of 4/4 would retain the original center to center width footprint since the 1" wheel offset difference would negate the additional offset width at the hub.

Make sense?
If I lost you tell me where, I'll try to clarify.

 

[Hellion]

NECRO-POSTING!

Horribly late to the party here but I wanted to puke out some info.

I got a kart for my nephews that i believe is a manco dingo. Someone slapped an 'American Express' shroud around the steering wheel, but the frame doesn't look like any of the american express models. It looks like a dingo. Unfortunately, the floor pan has been replaced, so i can't locate a serial number.

The way the kart is configured and has a suspicious 'American Express' shroud (or Nassau panel) on the steering column is because it likely IS an American Express. Many folks are acquainted with only one American Express model and it is the low-slung pavement racer with racing slick tires. The usual setup for that one is 4" slicks on the front, 5" slicks on the rear, no brush cage, a nassau panel and American Express graphics. There are in fact several variations of American Express and some might think an otherwise unidentified American Express is a Manco Dingo just because it has larger knobby tires and a brush cage.

The Manco 225, Manco American Express, Sears Orange Krate, Manco 285/286 Dingo models and probably countless others use the same base frame. Manco got an insane amount of mileage out of that chassis.







Kurt Cobain on an American Express which could easily be mistaken for a Dingo with the large rear tires (and maybe more so if it had a cage):



285/286 Dingoes typically had much larger tires on the rear, usually 18" to 21" knobbies.