Recent content by Benmatthews

@ landuse Yes buddy, i tried it initially and it was bolted to the column so it would potentially follow your hand but as i don't have a welder the lever was pointing the wrong way so i moved the clutch over to a new shift lever which should be in the next update post when i get round to it! :)...

Yes fabroman i agree, will change things like that if i get it to a driveable state by the time i have to go back to uni! Haha i have thought about moving it to a position like the racing karts generally have them but the pedal isn't like ones on normal karts, i believe they have a spring on...

Still going with the kart! Not got much time to get the progress thread caught up but have some exciting news! Got the engine started today! After 3 seperate carb problems that were caused by me putting it back together wrong! Haha :cheers2:

Next i decided to push the project forward a bit and get the frame painted. Proper DIY job.. i got a couple of tins of black gloss metal paint from a little shop called 'thing-me-bobs'. £1.29 for a couple hundred ml x2. The result of this pleased me a lot and gave me the drive to get the...

The fuel tank is a tricky choice between the motorbike one (full of rust... the rusty old mower one that came with the kart or just buy a minimoto one and be done with it. In the end i did, but not before trying to solder up the mower tank and also trying to clean it out with first WD40 and a...

The gear shifting being quite a major part of this kart was next on my list. I went through a few variations on shifter handle and settled on a chopped up bit of the handle bars off of the CG. i figured as i'm never going to use the bike again i would use what i could from it for this project...

The seat has been a fair cause for concern due the amount of holes and cracks in it.. a new seat is about £30ish but id rather try and fix mine up as this is a budget build after all!:thumbsup: My dad has a lot of experience working with fiberglass due to our old wooden enterprise sailing...

Now i had the engine i began looking at how i was going to mount it. I think the kart originally had a Honda c90 bike engine so there was a bike type mount already in place.. not quite big enough, but something to work with. The engine mounts that the foot pegs used to be attached to have been...

Next with the frame rubbed down i moved on to sourcing the engine... i had a couple of initial ideas involving lawn mowers which were quickly dissolved due to the fact they pointed drive down and not out the side.. then it struck me that i had a motorbike sitting in the garden with the wheels...

The cg125 kart build begins! Righy'oh, finally found some time to get this project thread up and running! The first job of the build was to strip off of the components that i got with the kart and decide what could be restored and what would need to be replaced/bought. Next all of the old...

Hi all, thanks for the welcomes! Yes sorry i am from Suffolk/Essex in England. Fabroman, what would you recommend i do to test the frame? I didn't actually think about the fact that it could snap while I'm on it. i have stood on the frame all over whilst it was on wheels and it barely moved at...

Hey thanks for the welcome Kelly :) ill try and get the build thread up to date over the next week or so, and am looking forward to hearing people's comments! :cheers2:

This is the picture from the advert on gumtree, i have a LOT of pictures which i will dig out over the next few days. The kart came with: 4 wheels - 2 which are battered and 1 with an unrepairable flat. A heavily cracked seat A rusty poorly painted frame A random exhaust All of the steering...

Hey all, just thought I'd start a build thread on my go kart now that its drawing to completion, to share my project and maybe get some pointers on a few things that pop up in the final stages of the build! Ill post some pics of the transformation so far. It started with an old wreck that i...