William's Wheeling Wagon

[toy4xchris]

So I decided that since I have a little man on the way I should start building him his first wheeling rig.

Every little one should have some sort of a wagon and after helping a few other friends build wagons for their kids it is finally my turn.

here is the start I ordered a Northern tool red all terrain wagon for basically the tub and handle.


My wife got excited when she saw the box and wanted to put it together in stock form to see what it normally looks like


in all her stock glory

 

[toy4xchris]

Now for the list and plan:

4 link front and rear
coil-overs
slightly taller tires
longer wheelbase
wider trac-width
new wooden stake sides
custom frame
key lime green paint
bed liner inside
spare tire mount on rear?
rear tow point to pull his friends wagons out lol

more pics


Coil-overs


new wheels (white rim) old wheels (silver rim)


steel

 

[toy4xchris]

Disassembled the stock wagon







Started building the new frame



basic frame is laid out now need to make one more x-member for the center

 

[toy4xchris]

About the stance I hope to get out of it.

 

[HammerHead]

Toyota Wagon

Say this one on another site.

 

[Hepar]

I opened this imagining something completely different. But stoked to see how it comes out!

 

[toy4xchris]

Thanks I had a feeling that would happen to people I'm excited have so many ideas I need to try and make sure it's done before he is here at the end of feb

 

[Minnesota Yota]

Congratulations! and very cool idea!

 

[toy4xchris]

planning on going by a buddies autoparts shop today after work to look into bushings and or rod ends for the links trying to make something functional and cool with out being ridiculous priced and etc...

 

[snivilous]

This is awesome!! It'd be cool if you had it setup so you could modify it further down the road and add a little motor and driveshaft but maybe that's for another project

 

[toy4xchris]

This is awesome!! It'd be cool if you had it setup so you could modify it further down the road and add a little motor and driveshaft but maybe that's for another project

Haha ya I already have a few dirtbikes waiting for him and have plans in my head of how to build a mini rock crawler for him. Like you said thats for anther project :evil:

 

[Hyde802]

Whats the spring rate on those shocks? Hows she gonna flex? haha. Cool project.

 

[toy4xchris]

The springs are super stiff 750lb rated so with these on there is wont do much found some other like 90lb springs i want to swap on but have a bunch of other stuff that came up so those will have to be a later update mod.

 

[toy4xchris]

Bored at work so I started playing in Inventor

 

[toy4xchris]

So I know this thread has been dead for a while but life got pretty busy with complications and then having a little baby around the house so I'm over 6months behind my finish date but I got some more work done.
Front axle

Steering knuckle

Rough stance

 

[toy4xchris]

Ended up ditching the original springs and my brother came up with a great idea and put rc car springs on the inside of the shocks now they look fancy and are actually a useable spring rate (well hopefully)

 

[toy4xchris]

Here is a pic of the future owner

My favorite pic of him telling me to get back to work lol

 

[toy4xchris]

Some other pics to kinda fill the gap between the previous posts and now lol

Frame

Link ends

 

[toy4xchris]

Rear axle cut and sleeved to make it wider

 

[toy4xchris]

And it's rolling