Tot rod wheels

Go-kart wheels with wet weather tyres.

Cheap if you look around and ask about.

I got two sets free, (traded favours) and gave one set to a mate.

I've found some wet weather go kart wheels nearby for £40. I'll go pick them up Friday. I'm not sure they're really what I'm after, but they'll definitely do for now!

I've found myself looking at casting my own alloy wheels. It's entirely unfeasible, but would be a lot of fun!

I saw Vespa split rims, which you can get quite cheap, but they're 10", so with a tyre they'd be far too big for the body I've got. I couldn't find any other type of scooter wheels that were split and smaller. If I can find something then all I need to do is cut a thick piece of aluminium/steel and bolt them together.

I can't seem to find the original listing, but it looks to be the same body as this one;

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/303826804868?hash=item46bd7d2084:g:OBAAAOSwpkpf6Rov

The go kart wheels look great on the red single seater you built, hopefully they'll go well with the body I've got. I think I had a thread somewhere, just after he was born!

Once I get going with it properly I'll start updating it again.

That was my initial concern over go kart wheels. Far too wide, but I've found some almost as cheap as two sets of the sack barrow wheels that the yellow one has on it would be, and they don't look too good either, so if I go with the go kart wheels, at least I'll have them for the next iteration of it.

Plus, wider is always better, and while I might just be pushing him round a car show you never know when you're going to want the extra grip. You never can be too safe.

Yeah, the go kart wheels are dead on, top work grizz .

I had looked previously, but all I could find were ridiculously wide ones. I looked again after you suggested them and these were the first result.

I've mocked them up very roughly where they're going to sit. It might end up sitting a little higher than this, but I'm hoping that it won't be too far off. Just doing all the drawings tonight for the bits I need laser cut. I'll be making a solid axle over the weekend, and the beginnings of a chassis. Deadline is the 25th for the Oh So Retro show in Margate. Plenty of time!!

Looks like the inner diameter of the bearings on the front wheels is 17mm - I had planned to make the stub axles out of threaded rod, but it'll either be 1mm too big or small. Are there any imperial sizes that might do? I've not got easy access to a lathe, otherwise it'd be rather simple!