sneekycheese
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hey guys, new here and need some expert help and ideas
me and my friends decided to start a go kart project, but we didnt want to spend much money at all, so far we have a heap of steel, a victa 2 stroke mower engine, a mountain bike disc and caliper, and some sprokets and gears, chains, etc etc.
so far we have made up the rear section of the frame and mounted the engine,, the engine is a vertical drive but runs perfectly well upright and we got it for $10, so no dramas there.
our first problem was to get some bearings for next to nothing, so we went to the scrap yard and bought 2 destroyed bikes for parts, we used the bottom brakets from those bikes as driveshaft bearings, (will show pics later) they work pretty good but cost us $15 so all up weve spent $25.
our drive axle looks like a peice of a playset, its a long pink steel rod which is very strong and very straight, but has a small diameter, about 25mm, so our new problem is trying to find a way to get the sproket off a bmx onto this tiny shaft, and the disc from a mountain bike on also.
has anybody done this with random bits laying around the house ? or bits of metal ? as i can get free bits.
the main problem is that i cant weld to the bar becuase it just melts and it will never go on straight so i need a method of reducing the diameter of the hole in the sprocket and disc to fit on the axle and then a method of fixing it to the axle straight.
any help is greatly appreciated.
thanks
me and my friends decided to start a go kart project, but we didnt want to spend much money at all, so far we have a heap of steel, a victa 2 stroke mower engine, a mountain bike disc and caliper, and some sprokets and gears, chains, etc etc.
so far we have made up the rear section of the frame and mounted the engine,, the engine is a vertical drive but runs perfectly well upright and we got it for $10, so no dramas there.
our first problem was to get some bearings for next to nothing, so we went to the scrap yard and bought 2 destroyed bikes for parts, we used the bottom brakets from those bikes as driveshaft bearings, (will show pics later) they work pretty good but cost us $15 so all up weve spent $25.
our drive axle looks like a peice of a playset, its a long pink steel rod which is very strong and very straight, but has a small diameter, about 25mm, so our new problem is trying to find a way to get the sproket off a bmx onto this tiny shaft, and the disc from a mountain bike on also.
has anybody done this with random bits laying around the house ? or bits of metal ? as i can get free bits.
the main problem is that i cant weld to the bar becuase it just melts and it will never go on straight so i need a method of reducing the diameter of the hole in the sprocket and disc to fit on the axle and then a method of fixing it to the axle straight.
any help is greatly appreciated.
thanks
