Anyone modify their kids power wheels, ?

[njdriver04]

We found a peg perego john deere gator on the curb! score... No battery first mod is an 18v battery. lol . Planning to put some flashing lights, Just trying to brain storm what I use the switches from some old transmitter, thoughts? Was thinking of using an hold cordless drill for the gear box if the 18volts mashes it up.

[flipwils11]

Hah, I have read the modifiedpowerwheels.com forum and am amazed at the builds guys do but never did much myself. We have a Peg Perego Gator and a power wheels f150 truck in purple.

[klavy69]

put a deepcycle marine 12v in an old quad cycle once...just enuf cutting to weaken the 'structure' enuf to only make it thru one cycle of the battery

its fricken unreal how much the want for batterys for those things...

Todd

[shodog]

On my Sons power wheels quad I ran a 24 volt NiCd battery. Thing would go like hell for about 5 minutes. He was really too little for this much power. On his first ride with 24 volts he pushed the foot switch and it lunged off spinning the wheels. He made a huge sweeping arc in the backyard then crashed into the plastic patio chairs and table breaking a few pieces. He got off saying,"Dad I don't think I want to ride this now." He eventually got used to the power and had fun with it.

Klavy's, your right about how expensive those batteries are. Make them uneconomical to run if you need to replace the battery. I found a power wheels Jerp by a dumpster once with a dead battery probably for this reason

[jwscab]

yeah, the batteries are terrible on both cost and capacity. I'm going to convert the boys' police car to a lawn mower battery or something similar, but those are also up there in cost now. wth.

[scr8p]

i used to race r/c's with a father/son duo that lived a couple doors up from me back in 91-92. son - driver, dad - mechanic. anyway, the dad was always building custom stuff. well when the kid outgrew his bigfoot power wheels, he took the motor assembly and stuffed it into the back of a tamiya king cab. he used it as a pulling truck. i don't remember how much weight he said it would pull, but it was a cool looking truck.

as for modifying a power wheels, my kid had a dump truck but i never messed with it.

[DMAT]

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48 volts and still on the plastic wheels.

[ChisaiKuso]

I'll leave this here just because it always makes me laugh.

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[THUNDERSTRIKE1]

We did a bigfoot one and used a weadeater motor in it til he ran it into a concrete parking slab an bent the rear axle. DON

[njdriver04]

I wish cozy coups came with motors..

Any ideas for mods on the gator? Electrical tape on the wheels for grip? Walkie talkie, how can i make it hands free?

[THEYTOOKMYTHUMB]

how can i make it hands free?

Have someone else drive...

[RC104ever]

No but I wanted to mod my kids Razor electric scooter. I watched some videos and read some threads on modifiedelectricscooters.com and can't believe what some guys have done. I've seen lipo conversions and all kinds of cool stuff.

[RC10th]

Who said you need 12v+ to have fun.

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[Halgar]

I wish cozy coups came with motors..

Any ideas for mods on the gator? Electrical tape on the wheels for grip? Walkie talkie, how can i make it hands free?

Tape isn't going to work, especially electrical tape. You could try duct tape because as the shiny wears off, you've got fabric and sticky that would help a bit. Trouble is, it's going to fray and pick up all kinds of rocks, gravel, and small children when it's driven.

As for really good mods, there are a bunch of forums and vids on YouTube about these mods. Just like with RC, you're only limited by your pocketbook!

[THE H.P FREAK]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lwLYHrqPYw