Hillbilly trike build

[Anonymous No.1656007]

im not good with words ok

[Anonymous No.1656009]

>>1656007
so I's done come up with this here peices of flat to hold the rattly box, vroom vroom.

[Anonymous No.1656014]

>>1656009
the powertrain is a 5 speed lawn mower transaxel that I was told the axels are welded together so it aught to kick dick in the shit
motor has an auto clutch on it.

[Anonymous No.1656016]

>>1656014
picturized of the motor mount if you giving a shit.

[Anonymous No.1656019]

>>1656016
now I'm putting that frame down low and I'll probably put me a lawn mower chair right there on that flat bar there.

[Anonymous No.1656020]

>>1656019
this is how I'm leaving her for now, gunna add some steal piping for the frame and hopefully finish the rolling chassi tommorow

[Anonymous No.1656023]

the motor is a 6 horse honder overhead cam
I think the little fella is gunna get around real well.

[Anonymous No.1656147]

>>1656007
Use a car engine instead

[Anonymous No.1656149]

Bumping cletus's death cycle.

[Anonymous No.1656153]

and how can you control the speed when running and stopping?

[Anonymous No.1656166]

>>1656153
why would you ever want to slow down? the ride never ends

[Anonymous No.1656168]

>>1656153
>how can you control the speed
Coward

[Anonymous No.1656180]

>ctrl f breaks
>0 results

[Anonymous No.1656186]

>>1656180
>breaks
Breaks is what happens to a dish when you drop it.
Brakes are the things on the bus that stop it.
These are the brakes.

[Anonymous No.1656205]

>>1656153
It has "go" and "not go", what more do you want?

[Anonymous No.1656208]

>>1656205
Im gonna need me a "go faster" mode too. Some kind of hairspray injection into the carb.

[Anonymous No.1656209]

>>1656205
Corinthian leather and bucket seats.

[Anonymous No.1656252]

op here
>>1656153
i havent even started on throttle cable routing nor the brakes but the transaxle has a brake lever on it
>>1656205
>>1656180
sorry for phoneposting but im back to busting stones this morning
you see in the picture the flat lever on the lefrmt is the gear selector but the one on the right is the brakes

[Anonymous No.1656270]

>>1656209
I aint no greek faggot

[Anonymous No.1656301]

>>1656270
im op and i did not post this particularly mean post

[Anonymous No.1656302]

>>1656301
also im thinking of having a lawn mower bucketseat but with a steel bar behind it that has a headrest bolted to it

[Anonymous No.1656429]

>>1656270
>I aint no greek faggot
Neither is Corinthian leather, nothing but a marketing term used by Chrysler in the 70s.
>>1656301
This place does not care if it was and no one actually takes offense, just ignore such comments or roll with the punches, have fun with it.

[Anonymous No.1656430]

>>1656429
yeah i know ive been around its just I dont want people thinking im gunna get all pissy at their suggestions for no reason
i wanna be a nice anon

[Anonymous No.1656636]

okay so the front frame is coming along ok

[Anonymous No.1656639]

>>1656636
i'd be proud of this if it wasnt for the fact i just noticed a hole burned through it

[Anonymous No.1656641]

>>1656639
so I was about to get rained on and i had a retard moment and decided to shove a u-bolt in the gap and weld it in
I think I can torch the studs and bend them inward and weld them to the strut there

[Anonymous No.1656643]

>>1656641
sorta like that there

[Anonymous No.1657076]

>>1656641
>>1656643
naw i done thought about it
im gunna grind that ubolt down smooth and put two flat steel gussets against the flat peice

[Anonymous No.1657199]

i done welded some seat rails on that son bithc and she looking alot closer to done

[Anonymous No.1657200]

I think her frame may be too long but Im no short cunt so im not worried

[Anonymous No.1657209]

>using a transaxle on a drift trike

[Anonymous No.1657218]

>>1657200
That bike rim wont hold up.

[Anonymous No.1657224]

>>1657218
If it is an alloy rim and the spokes are good, tensioned proper and all, it will do alright, a double wall rim would do better though. That front end is light and all the weight is on the back, it will pop up over obstructions easily.

[Anonymous No.1657240]

>>1657209
its not going to be a drift trike its gunna be what I use to drive around with my friends who have minibikes
they all have colemans and little 50cc hondas and I wanted to ride with them
>>1657218
i dont care
if the fork doesnt fail I'll just find another wheel

[Anonymous No.1657254]

>>1657240
You should keep the axle with the diff open, you are going to have a hell of a time turning it with that small front tire and the huge side tires.
Have you figured out how you are going to shift it?

[Anonymous No.1657271]

>>1656014
> so it aught to kick dick in the shit
I liked this thread from this post on.

[Anonymous No.1657273]

>>1657200
is this a bicycle? does it have an engine or how do you put it into motion? by pushing it downhill? anyone riding shotgun with you?

[Anonymous No.1657274]

>>1657218
Well he better go out and buy a 200$ fancy pantsy cnc milled wheel, huh? It would look right at home between the welded to shit frame, the sawzalled bike forks and the riding mower rear end that will explode if pushed past 23.2 MPH.

[Anonymous No.1657294]

>>1657274
Masturbate.

[Anonymous No.1657303]

>>1657273
see
>>1656023

>>1657254
the axel has already been welded by the previous owner who was using it to offroad his lawn mower.

[Anonymous No.1657304]

>>1657254
>Have you figured out how you are going to shift it?
He's going to select a gear before starting and stick with that.
Or he's gonna try speed shifting the weak-ass five speed with no synchronizers a couple of times then start looking for a replacement.

[Anonymous No.1657305]

>>1657304
the motor has an auto clutch on it, it should be just like shifting a fourwheeler.

[Anonymous No.1657308]

>>1657305
>it should be just like shifting a fourwheeler.
>>1657304
>no synchronizers
I'm sure it will be fine...

[Anonymous No.1657429]

>>1657308
it'll work or it wont, i havent spent a dime to build this shit other than maybe 10 bucks worth of flux core wire doing the frame
everything on it has been scavanged from the scrap iron pile at work

[Anonymous No.1657461]

>>1657308
also i dont actually know that it does or doesnt have syncronizers

[Anonymous No.1657491]

>>1657429
Those are some first class welds for flux core wire!
I get splatter everywhere, spend more time grinding.

The front wheel is maybe too skinny to push those wide back tires to turn.
The lawnmower that this came from had two small wide wheels to take the stress the back wheels push. It might taco the bike wheel in a turn. It's the force you need to balance, bicycles don't have that kind of stress that a trike has.
If you could find a wide wheel with a solid hub, you could make a wide fork to fit and not have to think about it.
Also the bike fork angle has too much "caster", the angle of the fork is too far down, it stresses the wheel and makes it hard to turn.
A more upright fork angle is better.

Great job so far! I'm too anal to make something like this, I sweat every detail.
I've had those same back tires in my garage for 5 years waiting for a project like this!

Good luck, looks like so much fun!

[Anonymous No.1657625]

>>1656007
Bump for excitement! I got a chibeese moped gram that is 150cc. Or was. Makea it titled as a motorcycle. Got the rear end and electric motor. Need some way to control a 12v 1.5hp motor with a throttle. And batteries and I'm ready to rip along with u.

Keep us updated!

[Anonymous No.1657626]

>>1656009
If that's a mower axle you better get mud tires for fun. Tall tires for speed. Or swap some pulleys

[Anonymous No.1657627]

>>1656208
KEK. Small motor and fuel injector. Now can full of ad gas or racing fuel.

My fucking sides

[Anonymous No.1657633]

>>1657199
Protip for the future. I mount all my seats the square tubing. Just drill holes and bolt them on where you like. Then you can just weld the square tubing whoever it needs to be.

If you ever run out of junk mowers that is.

Bonus points for mounting stock springs under hinged seat for added her has bouncybounce

[Anonymous No.1657635]

>>1657209
Drift.jpg
What do you mean drift?

[Anonymous No.1657637]

>>1657224
Op butcher a mirdercicle wheel and forks if you a big ol boy

[Anonymous No.1657638]

>>1657304
Ok needs junk hydrostatic mowers for real gains

[Anonymous No.1657639]

>>1656639
WTF are you welding with? Welds looks like you are good at welding, but using shitty gasless fluxcore LIDL arcmaschine

[Anonymous No.1657640]

>>1657491
They dryrot at 8 m8

[Anonymous No.1657645]

>>1657639
this little fella
but im using that little adapter that came with it to plug it into a house socket

[Anonymous No.1657653]

>>1657491
im not so much worried about that wheel because I know a friend of mine whos got a few old bicycles he dont ride no more in a junk pile
as for the uprightedness of the forks
Im probably going to have to have them rake back a little just to reach them comfortably but hopefully not much.
thanks for posting in this here thread

[Anonymous No.1657658]

can i get a dui on this here three wheeler

[Anonymous No.1657697]

>>1657274
kekekekeked hard

[Anonymous No.1657709]

dern tootin you lollygaggin derp u done goofed. i hear tell you need some sort of pedals to spin them wheels. and this frame here is flimsy. i rickin ain’t no way it moving lickety split or it gonna tilt all kaddywhompus, ya hear?

[Anonymous No.1657736]

>>1657709
ok

[Anonymous No.1657759]

[Anonymous No.1657778]

>>1657759

if this works and you post vid of you drifting or whatever, you are the king of /diy/ for a few days

pls succeed. too many have failed.

[Anonymous No.1657794]

>>1656636
that reflector is a nice touch, very handy while chasing mad max through the australian desert

[Anonymous No.1657803]

seems funs as fuck, but i reckon that the front wheel seems a bit flimsy for the speed and force of the rear train.
where are you going to rest your feet, anon?

[Anonymous No.1657804]

>>1657778
I tried pushing it around in neutral and it doesn't like to turn on pavement but it doesn't seem to mind as much in dirt I will upload video when it's finished.
>>1657803
footpegs will be put in probably after it's first test drive

[Anonymous No.1657988]

>>1657804
Its because of the thin ass bike tire and literally zero weigh distribution on the front tire

[Anonymous No.1658051]

>>1657736
Diff should be horiz or it wont lube properly...

[Anonymous No.1658053]

>>1657988
>Its because of the thin ass bike tire and literally zero weigh distribution on the front tire
combined with the fact that the differential isnt limited slip anymore
Eat A Tree OP

[Anonymous No.1658126]

i need me a dang 27 inch vbelt and they had to order one at the napa
for the test drive im going to just put it in gear and rig the trottle to a string

[Anonymous No.1658130]

>>1658051
it aught to be fine

[Anonymous No.1658312]

>>1658130
nice grinder

[Anonymous No.1658341]

>>1657658
YUP! Guy who used to be married to my aunt got one on a riding mower. Buddy had a drug and alchahol class. Bitch got one on a fucking horse! I kinda figured he was jocking then 12 years later by random chance I wound up in the same class with her husband. Were all bitching about being there and someone suggested we tell the dumbest duo stories and I piped up that I already won. Her husband kinda smirked and said he had one better. Then I said a lady got one on a horse and he died laughing. What are the odds. The class is in a town 50 miles away that nobody ever goes to.

[Anonymous No.1658345]

>>1657988
Well. Also its positrack so...

[Anonymous No.1658380]

>>1658312
i used the cutting wherl a bit to delete sone studs i used to fill in gaps on the tubing

[Anonymous No.1658383]

>>1658312
i cut that there ubolt off

[Anonymous No.1658387]

posting this weird dog in thread

[Anonymous No.1658439]

>>1658130
>it aught to be fine
the lubricant level is designed to ride in the bottom portion of the ring gear which slings it upward on the rest of the mechanism. On its side is a fail ....like your mother and uncle dad

[Anonymous No.1658450]

>>1658439
>like your mother and uncle dad
wait, does it mean the mother would also be your aunt?

[Anonymous No.1658451]

>>1658450
i mean the uncle's wife not sister, right?

[Anonymous No.1658487]

I'd want a little more length on that frame mahself. If ya get the gearin right you can get some speed on that sum bitch no problem... untill that trans nukes from not being oiled properly

[Anonymous No.1658489]

>>1658439
>>1658487
i got a solution for that there problem
pour more fuckin gearbox oil in it

[Anonymous No.1658557]

>>1658489
fillerup!

[Anonymous No.1659038]

>>1658557
https://youtu.be/fc6n3hvIzj4
video of test drive
it slipped the drive pulley off the shaft but idgaf

[Anonymous No.1659040]

>>1659038
>I want to keep up with my friends on minibikes
>literally 1mph

[Anonymous No.1659048]

epic fail tard
get a fuckn haircut

[Anonymous No.1659059]

wastes all that time and no concept of gearing
get a job son you are the nightmare neighbor If you lived by me you would have a hunting accident

[Anonymous No.1659100]

>>1659040(You)
>>1659048(You)
>>1659059(You)
I put it into high gear (I snatched the shift lever as far as I could)
and it did like 20 going down the street.

[Anonymous No.1659102]

>>1659040
like, in the video I had basically just shoved it into first gear and yanked the starter and hopped on it because it has a fixed throttle on the motor because it came off a pressure washer.

[Anonymous No.1659108]

>>1659038
It moves and you rode it - you win.

[Anonymous No.1659115]

>>1659038
noice

[Anonymous No.1659290]

cot

[Anonymous No.1659307]

Based, but also get a better engine that can go faster, swap out that bike tire with an actual tire, and rebuild that frame using new, non rusted metal.
I wouldn't trust that thing to hold me up let alone going at speed that shit would probably break apart.

[Anonymous No.1659315]

>>1659290
Based Katty Cleetus , where did you steal the front wheel from ?

[Anonymous No.1659316]

>>1659307
admitted he 600lb here kek

[Anonymous No.1659358]

>>1659307
nah man its good

[Anonymous No.1659362]

>>1659315
well it was off some womans bicycle i had
i had painted it black and put a bmxhandlebar on it when i was 12
about 4 years ago me and my buddy tried to chain the bicycle to a fourwheeler and ride it at 60 mph
doing that and using the pedal brakes cooked the grease off the bearings and the rear end exploded and locked up
i threw the bike in the scrap and left it there untill now

[Anonymous No.1659365]

>>1659362
Have you sister called Daisy

[Anonymous No.1659366]

>>1659362

[Anonymous No.1659378]

[Anonymous No.1659379]

>>1659059
>>1659040
>>1659048
Says the fags that only come to diy to larp and talk about tools and safety. >>1659100
Posting in epic bread, also checkd.

Now comes the slow process of troubleshooting and making it better.

[Anonymous No.1659483]

>>1659379
>slow

[Anonymous No.1659573]

I really don't give a darn fellas.

[Anonymous No.1659592]

we have liftoff
weirdly enough it feels like it has no torque in first but in second it will literally walk wheelies

[Anonymous No.1659863]

>>1659592
go away trailer dweller

[Anonymous No.1659873]

>>1659592
You look like Steve Brule.
>no torque in first
your clutch is slipping

[Anonymous No.1659875]

add a support here
>t. structural engineer

[Anonymous No.1659889]

>>1659875
will do if i find a pipe that length
i need to make gussets to strengthen the motor mounts

[Anonymous No.1659899]

>>1659875

isn't that support called a nut cracker?

[Anonymous No.1659921]

>>1659899
Yes, which is why he needs to add foot rests like pic related. It can be made out of the same pipe.

[Anonymous No.1659922]

>>1659921
forgot pic

[Anonymous No.1659946]

>>1659038
what a great thread.
great job op, fuck all the faggots in this thread that are hating on him

[Anonymous No.1659950]

>>1656007
I work with a hillbilly that has a can-do attitude like you do man, this trike is fucking awesome keep up the good work!!

[Anonymous No.1659954]

>>1659038
I subscribed to your channel hillbilly, keep it going and make sure not to get that long mane stuck in that exposed pulley setup there.

[Anonymous No.1659956]

>>1657274

[Anonymous No.1659982]

https://youtu.be/6ZE3ceS5Jdk?t=85
I genuinely beleive it would have went faster if it the tires on the rear axel weren't flat becuase I remember hauling ass on it the night before when I did have air in them.
but I couldn't find an air chuck this morning.

[Anonymous No.1659989]

[Anonymous No.1659998]

I hope you have a full face helmet, if that front wheel collapses at speed you'll do a header teeth first into the handlebars, and if you're as hillbilly as you play up you probably haven't got many left to lose.
Other that that, good shit.

[Anonymous No.1660095]

>>1659982

tell us about the car, with pics.

[Anonymous No.1660109]

>>1660095
its a reliable car.

[Anonymous No.1660162]

>>1660109

seriously, OP, this thread is a classic.

[Anonymous No.1660168]

>>1659982
>avoiding the speed bump
cheater!

[Anonymous No.1660170]

>>1660168

lol. nobody rides speed bumps.

[Anonymous No.1660171]

>>1660109

roll bar
deer bumper
no fucking windshield

jesus fucking christ on a stick with cheese where did OP come from

I love him

[Anonymous No.1660173]

>>1660171

this is aussie level cool

[Anonymous No.1660182]

obligitory

[Anonymous No.1660511]

>>1660182

[Anonymous No.1660512]

>>1660511
based lets see som vidya

[Anonymous No.1660588]

>>1660512
yeah i play the video games fren

[Anonymous No.1660641]

>>1656020
>two wheel in the back instead of the front
Make sure to livestream your death on that thing.

[Anonymous No.1660656]

>>1659982
you dont need an air chuck leroy...just shove the female end of the air hose on the valve stem...thank me later

[Anonymous No.1661155]

>>1660656
And plug my hose up full of dirt and shit.

He is right tho

[Anonymous No.1661157]

>>1660170
Not with that attitude you dont. We call them ramps. The city instals them for free near the schools so we can get air while hitting tripple digits in school zones.

Gotta practice defensive driving for my trip to Europe

[Anonymous No.1661158]

>>1659982
Was that the fucking belt? Get some belt dressing and build and idler pully if it was

[Anonymous No.1661164]

>>1659059
Lol. Passive aggrassive faggot hates fun. Try bringing a can of pop outside and making a friend instead of a passive agressive cuck

[Anonymous No.1661210]

>>1659059
If you were my neighbor i'd break into your house at night and forcibly shove hot glue into your ears untill you were so stone deaf you couldnt hear yourself screaming.

[Anonymous No.1661304]

>>1661158
yeah it was the belt but it only squealed because the tires were flat and it was taking off in high gear from a dead stop

[Anonymous No.1661313]

>>1661304
>because the tires were flat

they didn't really look flat. I love this thr3ead but I'm starting to think you are austistic a bit.

[Anonymous No.1661322]

>>1661313
well they don't look flat when theres almost no weight on them but I swear they go down over night

[Anonymous No.1661343]

I enjoyed this

[Anonymous No.1661358]

>this thread
>this build

[Anonymous No.1661421]

>>1661322
I put some liquid nails in those cracks and my tires lasted 7 more year.

[Anonymous No.1661575]

>>1661421
No fucking way. Really?

[Anonymous No.1661576]

>>1661358
They've tried that.


:D

Shall not be infringed etc...

[Anonymous No.1661578]

>>1661322
Tubes bruh. Get tire size and get om amazon. Throw the ass end on a cinderblock. Get some real soapy water and some bars and a hammer. They go on and off easy enough. And if not its fucked anyway. Tires are cheap even tho this looks like a bidget build. Dump a can of fix a flat in it if you want to get slimed. Dont fuck with spray foam or something. It just beats down in 4 minutes. When people say foam feeled tires they nean drill holes in the sidewall and fill full of solid plastic. I had a pair of golf cart tires done and they were fuck near 100 pounds each!

[Anonymous No.1661580]

>>1661322
Better yet fuck it. Find some car wheels to weld to the mower wheeles. Cut the middle out so you can pin them on or build adaptor plates. Shit will inevitably wobble some but if you use a common tire and wheel size or even a couple donutes they are a dime a dozen at the junkyard.

Fuck op. Widen amd stiffen them forkes and use a donut

[Anonymous No.1661581]

>>1661304
Lol. Good work.

[Anonymous No.1661596]

>>1658341
Yeah, well a DUI is any vehicle, anything which meets the definition of a vehicle under law is valid. Never heard of anybody getting one on a horse though.

[Anonymous No.1661611]

>>1661596
what if the horse is balls drunk and im sober

[Anonymous No.1661633]

>>1661611
That's no DUI, but you probably made some bad judgment calls if you ended up riding a drunk horse.

[Anonymous No.1661752]

>>1661596
Can confirm, got a dui on a bike, along with tickets for speeding and running a red light.

[Anonymous No.1661774]

>>1661633
It litterally was a dui man. They faught it and lost.

See >>1661752

>you have control of the vehicle.

I actually built an fpv remote control electric wheelchair to ride 4 blocks to a buddies house but it would cost more to fight the dui than be worth it.

As you can clearly see officer fuckmeat i have abaolutely 0 control over piloting this here american redneck engineeed shit so lick my balls.