Free 1989 Club Car
 

Last night we took the kids trick or treating and one house had a golf car on a trailer with a bunch of trash.

I asked and got it for free. Needs alittle work. I got all the batteries. Good for the scrap value. He said it was rolled over a few years ago.

My plan is to install a gas engine and use it in the yard.

More fun for the kids! :tup:

The battery value alone will bring happiness. So, you don't care to keep it electric?

I don't want to deal with the batteries and not knowing the condition of the electrical parts. Batteries are expensive.

One thought I had is to use a gy6 engine with reverse. The output shaft can run a chain to the input shaft of the differential. Will take the electric motor off. My other option is to install a GX Honda clone engine. Both of these are less expensive than the new batteries. I can sell the motor, controller etc. The old batteries are probably worth $50-75 in scrap.

I think we will put a dump bed on it.

Also possible to make it hydraulic drive. I have a 14hp kohler with a put and motors from the jacobsen machines. Motors go forward and reverse. Direct drive the input on the differential with that. Dumpster parts.:tup:

This sounds like another fun project. :tup:

Hydraulic drive! Do it!

I have everything to make it hydraulic drive. My only concern is that is may be too slow. I think the golf car rear end is about 12:1. The drive motors I have are designed for direct drive on golf car sized wheels. I only need one motor to drive this so I think that I may be able to increase the flow to get more speed. I may just need a faster motor with less torque.

I can also install larger diameter rear wheels to increase ground speed.

Hydraulic drive and we can also put the snow plow on the front.

I have to more some things out of the shop so that I can back the trailer in and use the shop crane to unload it. Then we can start the design process.

Can you attach a sprocket to the rear end, and connect the hydraulic drive with a chain? If so, you could compensate for that very low rear gear.

Weld, I was thinking about that. We should be able to install a large gear on the motor. These mowers don't go very fast.

Do you think #40 would handle it?

I think so. #40 or #50 is easily found at the farm store along with a selection of sprockets.

Do they have a good selection of weld-on hubs? Do you think they'll have a hub ID that will fit the shaft?

We have lots of farm stores to pick from. The store in Independence has alot of sprockets. Tomorrow I hope to move it into the shop. I need to move some things out and clean.

We unloaded it into the shop using the Ford tractor and the shop crane.

Remove the motor and it has a shaft with 10 splines. About 3/4 diameter. I need to measure it. Has 10 splines.