Hey all new to the forums and gokarts in general but I'm glad I found this place. My son fell in love with karts at the fair this year and so I felt it was my fatherly duty to help him develop his passion.
I picked up a Manco critter II for work trade. I'll be changing the oil in his cars this year as long as he brings me the stuff. It has a techumsa (s) engin he claimed was 11hp. It's fast for sure so that's all that matters for me. I gave it a tune up before I found the site so no pictures from that part but I replaced the case gasket because it was leaking like a stuck pig. I also replaced the gasket at the crank. The rods were crazy loose so I tightend the (rockers?) back to factory spacing. My timming is off a little cause pulling the cord to start almost ripped my arm off and if I don't have the idle turned up it will die. I'll try to adjust that this weekend.
The project:
Turn the kart from an on/off road kart to a strictly street masher for me and my son to smash around the neighborhood in.
Currently it's a drive wheel cart I plan to install a live axle this weekend if it comes on time. I ordered a 1" axle and flange kit from MFG.
It has 2 bent steel rims. I found a set of Douglas 5" wheels on LA Craig's list from a guy the was willing to ship to Seattle. Go 30$ wheel set. 4.5 front 6 rear. I'm going to wrap them next payday with Maxxis raptors.
Since I'm on a single income family budget I picked up a dinali 90cc parts quad that didnt run for 50$ i think it just needed the carb rebuilt but either way its not rideable. I'll try to use the spindles and front brakes from this and the hydraulic disk brake for the rear. Well that's the plan for now. I might fix the engine and bore it out and use it on my next kart in the future when I go to build my own from scratch.
I'll try to figure out how to post pictures here soon.
I picked up a Manco critter II for work trade. I'll be changing the oil in his cars this year as long as he brings me the stuff. It has a techumsa (s) engin he claimed was 11hp. It's fast for sure so that's all that matters for me. I gave it a tune up before I found the site so no pictures from that part but I replaced the case gasket because it was leaking like a stuck pig. I also replaced the gasket at the crank. The rods were crazy loose so I tightend the (rockers?) back to factory spacing. My timming is off a little cause pulling the cord to start almost ripped my arm off and if I don't have the idle turned up it will die. I'll try to adjust that this weekend.
The project:
Turn the kart from an on/off road kart to a strictly street masher for me and my son to smash around the neighborhood in.
Currently it's a drive wheel cart I plan to install a live axle this weekend if it comes on time. I ordered a 1" axle and flange kit from MFG.
It has 2 bent steel rims. I found a set of Douglas 5" wheels on LA Craig's list from a guy the was willing to ship to Seattle. Go 30$ wheel set. 4.5 front 6 rear. I'm going to wrap them next payday with Maxxis raptors.
Since I'm on a single income family budget I picked up a dinali 90cc parts quad that didnt run for 50$ i think it just needed the carb rebuilt but either way its not rideable. I'll try to use the spindles and front brakes from this and the hydraulic disk brake for the rear. Well that's the plan for now. I might fix the engine and bore it out and use it on my next kart in the future when I go to build my own from scratch.
I'll try to figure out how to post pictures here soon.
