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I agree. My uncle (the person who taught me to weld) recommend that I upgrade the helmet before anything else

My adapter is finally here! That means I’ll be able to start welding. I need to do a little bit more practice before I actually welded anything onto the kart but that should be relatively quick

Good to know

I fully understand the concept of camber and its pros and cons but if you’re saying zero, that’s what I’ll do. You do after all, have far more experience than me

Caster sounds right but 1° of negative camber? I feel like I’ve seen quite a few karts with far more than that but perhaps not 🤷‍♂️

I cut off the *insert name of the piece that holds the spindles* and well, rust thankfully it seems to be almost exclusively surface rust and after examining the rest of the pipe that I cut off the metal seems pretty healthy, I guess we won’t know 100% until I strip the paint. how moisture got...

Designed the *insert name of the piece that holds the spindles* in CAD. that was the easy part, now I just have to figure out how the hell I’m gonna make it. Right now it would have 15° of negative camber which may or may not be excessive, I don’t know. I just used it as a placeholder number...

I mocked up the the new pm arm today… and realized when I was originally designing my steering system I forgot to account for the existence of tie rods. Therefore, to make this work I would have to chop my feet off which I think I’ll avoid if I can. I went back to the drawing board and decided I...

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Here she is, fresh of the drill press! this is a whole new level of fabrication for me and I think I’m starting to get a taste for it :devil2:

Making up a new Pitman arm It’s 4” long and will have four points of adjustability. Hopefully I’ll have it at least cut out by the end of the night

There’s a little mock up. It’s looking good:thumbsup:

Old plate is out! Now for the new one to go in… As soon as I get an adapter for my welder and do a little bit more practicing

Sad to see a piece that I spent half a day fabricating go to waste but happy to improve the kart and learn stuff. Does it matter and or make a difference how long/wide the triangular Pitman arm is? And to space out the tie rod bolts so they clear each other, would you recommend using nylon...

Not sure I follow. Do you know where I can find a diagram of this?

Steering shaft has been “decapitated“

Right on! I swear that chair is cursed. We were cleaning out a distant friends place and among several other things I took that chair (when it was much less rusty) to hopefully sell at an upcoming yard sale. Sold everything else but that damn chair didn’t go. Every single other time I’ve tried...

After a lot of hammering and WD-40 the steering shaft is out!

She’s done! A little crude but I’ll get ‘er cleaned up. Big improvement! (Pardon the purple miniature chair that I’m using as a jack stand 😅)

Awesome thank you. I think I actually learned something about that back in my days of building RC cars out of Legos