Recent content by wobbulater

Yea I always wear glasses, I've got a Arc flash rated face shield, but it mounts on my hard hat.which is a little cumbersome. I went out today and bought a some ansi rated glasses that have a rubber lip seal around the outer perimeter of them,to prevent this from ever happening again. And yes...

Hopefully it all works out, Front rear Suspension is off of a quad,wich was all aluminum. Wich why I did what I did with the front end. To keep from having to make, swing arm mounts. There arn't any Vertical frame supports in place yet. I was Trying to get the main pieces of the frame made...

Been Making some progress, Not much but it's coming along. Gotta buy some more frame seeing how I ran out. Made The pedals,pedals stops, and return spring mounts (after the pic was taken today). Still much to do, and much to tidy up.

On the kart I am working on I am having issues determining how to position the shock for the rear swing arm. On the Kart the Engine will mount above the swing arm pivot point, wich will interfere with a normal swing arm shock that has the top end of the shock leaning towards the front of the...

More Pics: Also for those who May be wondering how I am gunna be getting the power to the axle , there is a cheesy paint illustration of the rear swing arm mount, and chain oreintation. The Engine will be mounted (eventually) on top of the swing arm mount/jackshaft box.

Hi all, it's been some time since ive posted on here, and ive finally got around to the build i've been wanting to do for some time. Now that my duaghter is a little older, ive freed up some time. And now that Ive paid off alot of my debts, I have a little play money! So It has began. The build...

hah, that exactly what happened to me ML-toys, I had purchased a running Cannondale cannibal engine, and started building a kart frame around it, shortly after I was given a Complete cannondale cannibal, with a milked engine in it. I just this past weekend, finished it, and can give you much...

Oh man, your bringing back memories!!, I knew it was an 80's Vg from the "TURBO 3000" top plate on the engine. Man the 300zx's were fun little cars.Often reffered to as the "poor mans porsche" I owned an 84'Turbo 5Spd,and 87 NA Auto, and 87NA 5Spd,and an 88 'Turbo 5spd. They were all junker...

yup, the all the safety features are programmed into the control panel, Overspeed Lop Hwt,etc I've seen a couple rods hanging out of blocks in the field,(seen them but wasn't around during the failure, thank god). But man I've never seen one as bad as the one in your link.That's a pretty...

25years old, Lived in tampa,fl my whole life. In a band, Field service technician for a Caterpillar Dealer,and building things on the side... The pic with the long hair is about a year old ive since then cut my hair off again.It's just to darn hot to work in the field with long hair

The engine in fowlers link is a Cat 3516, Rated rpm is 1800. These engines on Generator sets, have a safety featured that shuts them down if engine rpm reaches 2124rpm, to prevent this sort of thing..... I guess the off road trucks dont have this safety feature.

Sounds like you took great precaution,and it came out awesome. Good work man :)

No,you grinding the base circle down with sand paper is not the same as buying an aftermarket cam. An aftermarket cam has been tested and manufactured to a certain spec,and will not cause valve-to-piston interference (wrecked engine pretty much.) they have machines to grind cams that will make...

Here's some short videos of it my friend driving it, and me starting it and taking off,before (of course) the camera died.

Thanks man:cheers2:, It easily climb over smaller logs and stumps at crawling speeds. But man not having suspension makes for a bumpy rideat higher speeds! Also the reason we removed the cage, was for safety. We didn't want to run a cage with out a seatbelt. A rollover at a high speed, could...