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    my plywood speedster

    fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me
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    Wood you?

    the only thing that could make that kart design any worse wood be if it was made of metal
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    homemade clutch question

    top speed is 12 miles per hour engine is a rato 212 cc 7hp gear ratio is approximately 14:1 wheels are approximately 17" diameter
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    homemade clutch question

    here is a picture of my karts belt tensioner and the engagement lever. push the lever forward and left into the notch to engage you need a belt trap/guard that is the same circumference as the outside of the belt to hold the belt off the pulleys, mine is a little off on the front pulley but...
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    my plywood speedster

    trundle kart a plywood speedster no caps no punctuation no problem
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    Poboy "I wooden....if I were you build"

    here a vid where i've hung a wooden go kart over my shoulders on suspenders and am running around my yard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZn-tFqckbA
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    Little rocket engine kart

    http://www.tunersgroup.com/tunerwire_live/turbonique.html
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    my go kart

    ya ya, I'm just being overly sensitive cause my go kart is plywood. I generally drop 20 or 30 trees out about a half mile behind the house, buck them up where they lay and haul them back in a trailer with a lawn tractor. i'll easily burn whats there in the rows in a single winter. doing the...
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    my go kart

    yer talkin bout my go kart arnt ya... arnt ya but if I told ya I can juggle chainsaws, you'd prolly have to believe it eh?
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    my go kart

    pylon racing around the stumps and rocks in the front yard, no throttle, no brakes, just teasing the belt tensioner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuiAEBTXHnQ pat
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    my go kart

    still needs some work, plywood unibody 14:1 ratio 16" tires on 8" rims 212cc 7 hp engine belt tensioner clutch 12 mph top end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXB12p4LGO8 pat
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    Newbie Looking for Some Guidance & Advice

    Canadian tire periodically puts Rato 212cc 7hp clones on sale for $150 or something like that.
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    What type of pictures do you like?

    well if that dont beat all, considering i did delete the pictures from photobucket today and marked the album private. well i'll ask now that robertdjung undo or delete my image from this website. i guess any photobucket using poster should expect the same from this place then? you seem to...
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    What type of pictures do you like?

    i use the photobucket option i rescale my pictures to 640 x 480 and try to compress them as much as i can without chunking them up... current trundle kart pics are under 90KB... some would prefer i dont post them at all if i dont thumbnail them? using photobucket also allows me to quickly...
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    trundle kart progress

    the steering wheel is from an early '70's speedboat... a 14' cutter calypso trundle kart is nowhere near structurally finished. Pat S
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