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Not mine, but came across this. Neat looking jeep body, I dont recognize this style body. May be a good find or rebuild for a North Carolinian https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2437249633772732/?ref=search&referral_code=null&referral_story_type=post

Was lucky recently and was thankfully able to get this body. This is a fiberglass body. I was fina able to find one that was somewhat local, this gentleman saved me soooooooo much time instead of rebuilding the plastic broken body I have. I am so happy to be able to get this!!!!!!

Long overdue update, project was side lined for a few jobs that came in along with the weather. did some electrical work so far, I have the front lights ran up to the switch box and got all that back together, had to trim the switch panel window about an 1/8” on both sides for the wires to be...

Little bit of an update, got the shifter handle, throttle and brake cables hooked up, as well as the front and rear bumper. I went for a test drive and EVERYTHING needs adjusting BUT!!!!! It runs and drives, hopefully these things will be minor, (fingers crossed) . However the band brakes do...

Video: https://youtube.com/shorts/pCKroVLf_UY?si=lEW7ZjOqKBEbLH1i

Did a func test run of the gearbox forward and reverse directions and it went well. The belt isn’t slipping enough so it’s engaging the driven so I’ll need to adjust that.

Some more progress

Got some good work done recently, I was able to cut the spindle arms down about 3/4” redrilled the holes and put them back on. Next issue was the large tie rod was roughly 1.5” to long, the left side was straight and the right side was waaaaaaay out in right field. After some time and figuring...

I did put 3 (1/8”) washers behind the hub when I saw this but that didn’t change much, I believe the offset for these wheels is to much. i have enough room for spacer on the axle but I feel that won’t solve my issue. Good call though.

Sneak peak Finally got the frame painted and at the point of re-assembly, however I ran into a snag, the Manco spindles I’m using hit the wheels, so I’ll be modifying these to hopefully work and not mess up the way it steers.

So the set screws didnt work out , which I kinda figured, so I added some springs just like a motor muffler, once the muffler bracket is bolted to the bumper everything should be tight and good to go. I finally got the frame painted to while we had some good weather in our area, hopefully in...

That’s really neat, I need a bigger oven as well, parts are getting bigger for me as well. It’s not to bad, biggest thing is prep work, has to/needs to be very clean. I try to sandblast parts before powder if I can, other wise DA sand and clean with laquer thinner, and use lint free rags, the...

Haha, I took a double wall oven , cut the center out, rewelded it together. I’ve got maybe sub $200 total in it. Reused the insulation and parts to make it work.

Powder coated a couple parts tonight with a new to me fine texture lack matte powder, I think it turned out nice for the first time using this stuff, gives it a different look.

That would look much better I believe as well, I don’t have a way of bending pipe, I snagged the 90 from work that was a cut off from a job. We’ve got a top tube bender we use sometimes and occasionally we’ll have some test bends that get chucked in the scrap bin. I will definitely post up a...

It will be, there is a small tab on the rear bumper that the hanger will bolt to, Definitely don’t want it to break off from riding and bouncing around.

Got my bumpers cleaned up, blasted, primed and painted Friday and welded the exhaust pipe up today. This is a motorcycle type muffler (cheap) that slips on. I had to make an adapter to make it work for my Setup, so I drilled and tap for 2 sets screws on top and bottom to hold it on. This may...

Mocked up the engine and gearbox (rough fit) and put the body on to check clearance and to see where the exhaust will fall, I will be making a new exhaust setup for this and plan to have it come down and out below the rear bumper. Gotta do some more figuring and lay out some tubing to see where...

Welded the tabs for the lights on and did a little bit of rough sanding, the guy I got the kart from painted all over the old decals, kinda cool there coming to light now, this would have been sooooo cool had it still been 100% together and not busted all up.

Re-did the bumpers, the yellow and raw metal ones were way to heavy, found some 2” tube that was about 14ga thick, im not a pipe guy, even with the pipe notcher I bought, so it doesn’t look as good because of the serious gaps I had to fill in, but again it’s a go kart, I’ll just cover it with...