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That could work, I wonder if those have a name

This question is about the throttle cable on my gokart, AND about two chute adjustment cables on my snowblower. All these housings have tight bends in them, like 90° turns that cause excess friction and accelerated wear and tear on the housing. Now I'm actually a mountain biker, and back in...

Here's the youtube video for the repair: It's not a go kart centric channel but I'm kind of desperate for content since we're having a snow drought. The video definitely could have used more and better "driving around" footage at the end but technical snafus prevented that. One thing I...

LOL yeah thats the technique I'm currently using but if i got a little better, I could do a lot of really cool projects. I just don't have the time. Plus I suspect my 20 year old harbor freight machine sucks and thats probably half the problem.

I can't do customizing like that until I acquire some decent welding skills.

I actually thought of that when I was looking at it, and then I even realized what you said second, that it would reduce the turning radius. Maybe I should drill a new hole anyway though and actually test it out and see how I like it.

I have a Manco Dingo with a very rudimentary stearing system. It has a very fast turning ratio, so you don't have to turn the steering wheel much to turn the front wheels a lot. And by the same token, feedback up through the wheels turns the steering wheel very easily. Are there any steering...

Well I will agree that under just the right circumstances, they can be a lot of fun in the snow. Like if you have a thick layer of old snow that has turned into some pretty solid ice-snow, then you get a few inches of fluff on top of that. That combo will get you a pretty good time in the snow...

I'll only be driving it on snow blowed driveways and plowed streets to anything will work. This thing has about 3" of ground clearance so theres no hope of driving through deep snow, regardless of the tire tread.

The rears are original, the fronts are a few years younger. But honestly all the tires look really good, they don't look dry rotted at all! The machine was kept in a shed for much of it life so maybe that helped prolong them? That said, I was thinking of getting new tires anyway, something with...

I should be good for another 10 to 15 before the new tank starts rusting :D Also if I run it out of gas before Iet it sit for 6+ months, that should also help. And I guess I should try not to fill it while it's raining or snowing, so that water doesn't slowly collect in the bottom of the tank...

So I got my kart running today for the first time in years. I was psyched! Once it was running, I grabbed my pump to pump up the tires so I could go spin around in the thing. But taking the pump off one of the valves, it actually broke it. I'm a mountain biker and I've never seen a valve stem...

For about 4 years now, give or take, I've been posting threads about my kart. The engine, which has been rock solid reliable for the first 15 years I owned it, started to get unreliable. It dragged on for so long, I don't even remember everything that happened or everything I tried to do to fix...

If its a "gearbox" i'd be using with a comet, then I wouldn't need shifting on the fly. I'd be more than happy to have a setup where i can stop and shift from reverse, to low to high, then hit the gas and have fun. And being able to log or unlock the diff, also while stopped, would also maximize...

So i was poking around the Pearless website and found a different item they make that looks very interesting: https://www.peerlessgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/855-Series.pdf Open differential, with a locking option. Input shaft and axle parallel so you can run it in a go kart...

So I've been thinking about this and this gearbox is out as far as being a primary transmission. But the gears/gear ratios could be customized right? So could I buy that transmission and configure it as a low range reverse, low range forward, 1:1 forward 3-speed gearbox, connected to the comment...

Gotcha, well that kills that idea. I guess ill be keeping the commet. I have seen many forward/reverse mini gearboxes where the reverse is a lowered 3:1 gear. Are there any simpler gearboxes like that that have a 1:1 forward, 3:1 reverse AND a 3:1 forward? A 7 HP motor to a commet 30 to a 3:1...

I was reading about the pearless 100 axle which directed me to the pearless 700 transmission and i have many questions about it. I was going to start a new thread but I guess I can just post them here? How does this thing work?? There's no clutch! Do you have to add a clutch? Can it be shifted...

A torsen or tru-trac style LSD should more or less fit in the same size case as the pearson 100, be more or less the same weight, and be the perfect solution! For people that do crazy off road stuff anyway. The more I think about it myself, the more I think an open diff will be just fine.

Would a cheaper solution simply be this: A peerless 100 open diff. Two rear brakes, one on each side. Two master cylinders that would both be activated at the same time by the brake lever. But a pair of other levers located on the little control panel somewhere that would let you hit the brakes...