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    Cushman based build

    Is this what you need? This is the Cushman before I changed the suspension: This is after:
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    Cushman based build

    I put the steaks on this one. It has been very handy. It is used at the metal shop and to go back and forth between shop and house. It has been used to haul many things and often loaded and unloaded with forklift. The new truck will have aluminum diamond plate bed with stake bed; no need for...
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    Cushman based build

    Thanks, I just got done welding up the steering rack. It was a rack form an MG which I cut down to the proper width:
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    Cushman based build

    Front suspension, working on MGB steering rack now:
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    Cushman based build

    I am still here. Slow as ever. I have a 100 other things I am doing so this is taking a while. I have been building automatic turn signal controller circuits which has consumed a bit of time. I am currently building front a-arms then shock mounts for the front:
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    Cushman based build

    Nothing quite like this . Just cars up to now:
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    Cushman based build

    I changed the spelling; thanks. Not too much to update. Some small things doen, getting front upright parts cut, gathered, setting up rear brakes. Mostly I have been busy with other things. Did make it out to the Pikes Peak Hill climb. Lots of electrics out there. An electric motorcycle made...
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    Cushman based build

    There is an old story about the reason the Space Shuttle Booster rockets are the size they are. It turns out they had to be transported by rail...through a mountain. The hole in the mountain determined by the size of a train and train tracks. The size of the tracks determined by Horse and buggy...
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    Cushman based build

    Laying everything out to sort out the suspension attatch points:
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    Cushman based build

    I have a kiln I converted for powdercoating. I made a circuit which automates the powdercoating. I blast the parts, spray the part, drop it in the kiln rack and hit go. I come back 45 min latter and the process is done. Makes it easy to powdercoat all the parts as I go.
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    1,000lb "Elec-tow’d” Electric Tow’d Dune Buggy Build Thread

    JD, I was treading your design objective whcih brought me back to some poitns I have always thought about. One problem in looking at reducing energy consumption in travel.....is the layout of our cities. We get in a small car, get on roads, highways necxt to large trucks (like the Ford F350 I...
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    Cushman based build

    Thanks Drew, I am going to clean out the axle this weekend and see if I can get it together. Seems like I am always one part short. I gues I will soon find out if I have all the seals and such. Gary
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    Cushman based build

    The key to reversing the 2-speed gearbox was cutting up a worm gear from an axle (ebay): Almost complete. Little work left on the input shaft/bearing housing but enough I can use it for frame mockup: Axle has been powdercoated waiting assembly:
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    Cushman based build

    Lower 4-link attatchment, Disc brake bracket, Coil over shock bracket:
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    Cushman based build

    Still waiting on a few key parts but starting on working through some of it. This is basically the plate which will hold the motor with a Lovejoy type connection. Sill waiting on a key piece which mated a Lovejoy to the proper spline. The gear box is turned around. Instead of a 1/2 reduction...
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    Homemade electric car - "The Dream Car"

    I hate to talk bad about someone elses project but...with the "strong construction" of the frame it is a perfect ramp. When a car goes up the ramp, the bumper is going to turn the cockpit into a gillateen. Remember the "Slicer" in Gone in 60 seconds 2":
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    Cushman based build

    Still gathering parts. All 4 rims are blasted and powdercoated black with the tires mounted. Got a drive shaft which is going to work in this configuration. Also waiting on some machine work for the transmission input shaft.
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    Cushman based build

    Since this vehicle is largely form scratch it takes a while to gather and prepare comonents. Some parts still on order. I have decided on wheels and tires. The rears are 22x11x8 which is in the black rim. The black rim was one of the rusty turf rims you see stacked behind it. Yesterday I broke...
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    Cushman based build

    Axle looks better cleaned up:
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    Cushman based build

    Bracket cleaned from first axle half:
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    Cushman based build

    This will be the beginning of a build based on some Cushman parts and a motor I got from Drewjet. I did not want to take his thread so I thought I could make a few post here. I am starting with an axle from a Cushman Truckster. I may use the steering box but little else. The rest of the...
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    Cushman 3 wheeled Truckster conversion Build Log

    Thanks Drew, I will send a PM
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    Cushman 3 wheeled Truckster conversion Build Log

    Drew, interesting build. I am looking at doing something similar. I have a Haulster I use here but would like to make a nicer vehicle. I have a Truckster I pulled the drive train from. I ams ourcing electric motors now so your information is quite helpful. It looks like you are using the...
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