Created ATVs

A great popularity among people trying to improve their lives, uses the theme of creating light vehicles that can move in off-road conditions. ATVs have their own characteristics, conditioned by the capabilities and inclinations of their creators, which leads to the individual appearance of each car. Within the framework of this article, we will consider the basic elements and types of designs of the samples being created. The main scheme for the execution of driving parts are cars with a wheeled or caterpillar drive.

Wheeled ATVs

They are most common among beginner homemakers, which is due to the lower costs of designing and creating a machine. Previously, most of them were all-terrain vehicles with a tricycle layout, with the leading rear wheels. Currently, the most common steel vehicles with a wheel formula 4x4, 6x6. This is due to the opportunities to create more comfortable conditions and increase the mass of the cargo being transported.

Caterpillar structures

Such self-made all-terrain vehicles are more complicated with respect to wheeled vehicles and require a lot of money to create them, but the operational capabilities have a number of advantages compared to pneumatics. The main ones, of course, are better maneuverability and maneuverability, as well as reducing the risk of damage to the chassis elements.

How to make a snowmobile by yourself

To begin with, it is necessary to clarify to myself the purpose of the future all-terrain vehicle: to determine the passenger capacity, the maximum mass and dimensions of the goods carried, the time and operating conditions. This will allow us to work out the concept of the apparatus and its prospective possibilities.

The next step is to choose the type of propulsion - wheel or track. In addition, to determine its design solution: on the wheeled chassis - the number of leading and controlled pneumatics, cross-country vehicles on tracks - the type of tape, the number, location of the leading and guiding stars.
After preliminary work, one or another diagram of the created sample is finally selected, creation of working drawings of the future machine begins.

Engine Selection

Sometimes financial issues impose certain restrictions on the choice that leads to the use of what is. Often they are engines from old motorcycles or cars.

In the absence of problems with the financing of the project, all-terrain vehicles can be equipped with a variety of power plants, and experienced homemakers recommend the following options:

- For pneumatics, modern motorcycle engines are preferred, it is only necessary to select the motor of the required power and corresponding to the operating conditions. A good choice is an installation that has forced cooling, since there will not be adequate conditions for the normal cooling on the ATV.

- Apparatus with caterpillar drive should be equipped with motor motors with high torque and sufficient operational reliability. When choosing a carburetor or diesel engine, you should pay attention to the possibility of launching them in conditions of severe frost, since for a stable operation it will be necessary to install a pre-heater. At the same time, diesel has a greater economy.

Elements of mobility

Manufacture of wheels on low-pressure tires, as a rule, is carried out by fastening two disks, which have bridges between them, onto the bushing. Top of the dress the camera and fix it. As an additional measure of protection against external damages, an additional camera protector may be used. ATVs on the caterpillars can use the removed caterpillars of commercially produced snowmobiles or made independently. In most cases, this propulsion device is a piece of conveyor belt with fixed grooves and holes for passing the teeth of the drive element.