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If you haven't bought the sprockets and chain yet, move up to #40 chain but keep with the #41 sprockets. The heavier chain helps out when your sprockets are not perfectly aligned plus it is a much beefier chain. #41 and #420 chain is the same thing but the #420 has been prestretched. A #40...

The 98L belt was 30.250 outside circumference of the belt fitting a center to center distance of 7.375" to 7.500" All the series 20 belts measured 3/4" at the top of the "V" Belts are not cut with a knife but ground so they can be +/- .015 depending on who the manufacturer was. We used three...

Education is free. Yes, it is a copy of Comet's series 20 but improved on all the failure points of the series 20 by Comet. They had no reason to make improvements since they were the only unit in production back in 1996 when we collected all the returns from the various manufacturers of go...

Some of the things said about belt drive are true but if you look at Pfeifer Industries web site you can get a good education. Why yes, same address as Max-Torque. That is my son's company. Belt drives are used on enduro karts (lay down karts) going FAST but on very big tracks. Also all the...

The clutch in the picture is a Max-Torque "SS" (six shoe). The description on the old style clutch was a two shoe clutch with the material riveted to the shoe. I have one hanging on my wall and I have bead blasted some to bring them back to life for some people but they are very rare to find...

TNThomas -- back in the 60's several of the racing kart manufacturers used the rear sprocket for the brake using either hydraulic or mechanical brake. But like you indicated, over oiling the chain made this set up nearly useless once the sprocket got coated with oil. But it was better than a...

Thank you for the drawing ezcome-ezgo better than a picture. That is how the brake band works, so that is how you have to set it up if you want yours to work properly. One end of the band HAS to be fixed, if is not then it would rotate around with the wheel.

There is only one pin with the cable through it, the first opening is for a FIXED pivot point, the cable is pulled towards the fixed point which is what puts the pressure on the brake band. Normally on the kart there would be a bracket welded to the frame that had a 3/8" bolt welded to the...

More than likely the brake drum is FINE. The band will wear out several times before you ever have to think about replacing the drum. We use to make brake drums before the insurance company came in and told me we don't care how fast a go kart goes but if you make any device that stops them...

You have a brake band which was used by a lot of mini-bike people and still used on the small 120 snowmobiles. Do you still have the pin that goes in the back hole of the band brake? It has a hole that the cables passes through and a set screw to secure the cable in the pin.

With those size tires you will need a torque converter, Series 30 will be fine, just make sure when you order you tell them a 10 tooth sprocket on the jackshaft for the #41 or #420 chain. Your rear sprocket will be fine.

After talking to the gentleman and giving him several options we have re-thought the project and he is sending back the engine. It is a Ken-Bar kart and what he is going to use it for makes better sense to get a 212 engine and a series 30 T/C. I would also go down to a smaller tire not to...

Denny, you know 22mm is just a number that means nothing to a machine. I just need to know the length of the crankshaft, if it is drilled and tapped and if so what is the metric thread size. A clutch like that has to be a 2 piece clutch--separate shoe assembly from the drum and sprocket. But...

Denny has some good points but since you are not looking for any speed but what kind of terrain are you going to be riding on--flat or hilly and how much load are you talking about? Live axle or stub axle? Are we talking #35 CHAIN 0R #420 chain? with you 12/60 you would be going 23mph with...

Your original picture show an asymmetric driver and a symmetric driven so no belt is going to work for very long based on the driven unit. By the way the driven unit is also facing the wrong direction it should be inboard mounted.

I have no clue what you mean by "it's broken in now" . Max-Torque only dealt with symmetrical belts because they are easy to measure when it was time to replace them. I can only give good advice on symmetric belts but I can try and do a little cross over help for what it is worth on an...

With the floating sheave off the engine check the clearance under the belt. I like to have the thickness of three business cards. You don't want it tight and you don't want it sloppy. Sloppy it slams into engagement which will shorten the life of the t/c. You said yours unit was a series...

Murray used both Comet and Max-Torque for their karts. Does your kart have the rack and pinion steering which they used on their rider lawn mowers? How about a picture of that unit? The Honda 270 is a 1" crank so you will have quite a lot of hole drilling in the motor mount plate.

Denny - over in Mayberry you have time to research the dates when the first question was asked but I just looked at the recent post where someone was offering a wing. I will try and get smarter the next time and check the history.

You might want to rethink the larger wheels. You will have to change gearing and most like switch from a clutch to a torque converter and there isn't much room in back under the body for a torque converter. Most of the body karts made by Manco and Bird were just a single clutch system. Action...