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just like to mention your sweet english wheel .. homebuilt?

 

Yes, quite a few years ago now. Upper wheel is a crane castor of some sort. Frame is all scrap steel bits. Lowers were machined from a hydraulic ram piston rod.

 

Design was based on wheelmachines.com in the early days. Pretty easy to do, mostly from steel plate.

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Great build thread.

My grand Pop used to have one of these and I remember riding in the back seat when Nan and Pop went to town. When much older I got to drive it a few times and was surprised how well it went for a 1.3 wagon.

Guess you know by now but it had a foot pump beside the clutch for the windscreen washer.

Keep up the good work.

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Thanks - it's good to be able to drive it.

I'll have a closer look at the spaces, but a quick measure indicated about 10mm was needed, along with longer wheel studs. Technically spacers need to be certed, but if it works out OK I could just swap back to the stock wheels at WOF time.

In some ways it would be easier to weld the space to the wheel face, but that is probably dodgy too.

/I really want a set of Turbos.

Or maybe those 5-spoke Triumph wheels would look good.

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