2016 - My go kart rebuild

[David Ham]

yeah it was a lot of holes to drill, and I only broke one drill bit!

soldering it up

it muffles my voice pretty well, so I'm hoping it will muffle the engine as well.

 

[chancer]

Nice. I love a Good DIY!

 

[David Ham]

what a beast

looking all nice and soldered up

I decided to make a new brake pedal cause the old one was ugly

 

[LeeMajors]

what a beast
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looking all nice and soldered up
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I decided to make a new brake pedal cause the old one was ugly
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Yeeeaaaahh..... Plz tell me you didn't solder the brake pedal too?

 

[David Ham]

haha nah mate its just welded

 

[David Ham]

My engine won't start and I don't know whats wrong

 

[ezcome-ezgo]

My engine won't start and I don't know whats wrong

Me neither.

 

[Poboy kartman]

Got me stumped.

 

[David Ham]

I think I just did the most stupid thing... I didn't push the spark plug lead on enough. After pushing it down and pulling the ripcord, there were a few pops and after tweaking the idle screw, it got going very nicely. It sounds awesome with the new muffler!
And, I also got these bad boys posted to me:

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG

ready for the new wheels but I'll have to rebuild this all.

 

[David Ham]

meh, rebuilding again...
some wheel things

I'm moving the axle back up so the engine mount will go up as well.

she sits a bit high.
some bearings and things for the wheels
the wheels are 145/70-6, about 14 inch diameter and were $120. One of them says 10 psi but the others say 4 psi. I'll just leave them at ten I think

 

[David Ham]

some hardcore drilling with the lathe
i've decided to make some hubs for the back, they're pretty solid.


getting there...
and yes! the go kart is sitting on its rear wheels for the first time since the old one broke!

 

[chancer]

Cool. What locks your hub to the axle? No keyway I imagine.

 

[David Ham]

Cool. What locks your hub to the axle? No keyway I imagine.

At the moment their are two grubscrews on each, and the holes go through into the axle. But I might cut a keyway into them later if I'm not happy with it.
I've started working on the front, I'm just getting the spindle horizontal.

mmmmm...
re-attaching the steering rack, this time behind the wheels so I can do the ackerman thing

I would have done more work, but I was temporarily halted after my finger lost a fight to an angle grinder.

 

[chancer]

Better an angle grinder than a circular wood saw blade!

 

[David Ham]

Better an angle grinder than a circular wood saw blade!

indeed. Did you cut yourself with one of those?
I've done some more work at the front

the bearing housing for the front hubs, attaching the wheels to these will be a bit tricky.

the steering is once again functional. All I need is to attach the front wheels and I can test it out!

 

[hardcorewill]

Sorry if you have already posted,but what size springs are you going to use?? Hard to tell scale, but they look like quarter ton ??? No torque converter???

 

[chancer]

No I have not cut myself with a circular saw wood blade. But I have with a Grinder! lol

 

[Poboy kartman]

I've done both.....but a 5hp Powermatic table saw removes a lot more flesh and bone than an angle grinder.

And it hurts more....

 

[hardcorewill]

Hope you finish before the deadline, going to be a nail biter. Lol

 

[Kartorbust]

Did the exact same injury to my finger in college with an angle grinder. Except right index finger and it was on the edge and went down to bone. Still a slight scar, still possibly feel grinder disk under the healed skin. It had gone through leather welding gloves and got me good. Wasn't a fun week and a half, but was still able to weld.

Turbo lag? Oh you mean the courteous head start.