Recent content by Kasea

I'm im the same boat with my kart gonna watch this thread closely and soak up all the info I can .

To be completely honest I have no idea about gear ratios and what would be ideal for my kart the only reason I used the snowmobile engine was because it was laying around in my dads garage for the last 30 years and it was free and still in good working order I got a few ideas for a design and...

So quick update I took the kart out for a quick ride this evening and had no issues I only ran the kart for 15 min or so due to limited space and I dont wanna upset the neighborhood however not sure if just a minor tweeking to the alignment of the 2 sprockets was the issue the tension in the...

Hey thanks for the input about the jack shaft flexing its a 1 In shaft I will come up with a new design if all else fails ill attach 2 pics of before and after running it for 20 min for a comparison of the chain stretch

Yea i chose 530 because that is what the original sprocket measured out to. Ive check the alignment and its straight also made sure the pillow block berrings haven't shifted. I had some carborator issues i had to work out yesterday i will take it for a run today and report back .

Thanks for the quick responses yeah the chain got pretty chewed up on the jack shaft when I shortened the chain i took the link out that got the worse of it i added a half link or offset link to get the tension just right ill add some additional pictures of the chain

hey all new here and looking for advice on my build. I started out with a kesea adventure buggy and stripped it down stretched it, and repowered it and now in the final stages I'm running into problems. To start I cant seem to keep the chain on the sprocket. Now reading up on new chains they...