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Do you think if I were to put the front tires on the rear and new tires (either same size or smaller) on the front? Would that fix the problem or just make it less crappy and not up to a decent standard..

thought so... the smaller tires were going to be my next change... was just doing my research on a jack shaft. I have plenty of room for it, any suggestions on which gears for it, or just try and get to a 8:1?

thanks all for the input.. After a quick tire swap onto a new rim and mounted, Replaced the chain with a new one and gave enough slack but not enough to fall off, It still smoked.. so i would have to agree with the gearing.. any suggestions on how low to go?

pictures think i figured it out

pictures to help solve the problem This is my Craigslist buy. long way to go though. 200$ for it all, minus the 30$ for a spare tire and new chain.. thought this would help.

I will check the chain.. after all this i had to drag it back to the garage and lost my last connecter for my chain... back to northern tools.. a third time.

yes its exactly like that. Didnt want to be jerk of the forum being lay and asking before searching.. but yes its identical to that with out the spacer.. (or what looks like a spacer to me.. new to this all.)

about the clutch being backwards, Wanted to see if clutches can run backwards? Not to sure on that. Thanks

sp i decided to build my first kart. I bought a set up that I thought needed very little to get off the ground. ran into a problem today. I finally got a chain on and started it up, when giving gas, it would not move and the clutch started to smoke a little. I checked on the forums and found a...