Tubularfab
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I found this forum while googling for gocart info, and am rather shocked by the amount of info and traffic on here. I guess I might as well join in...
I am recently getting back into gocarts after owning several as a kid and a few as an "adult". Gocarts were a HUGE factor in my learning of mechanical things (I'm now an engineer and have been involved with designing race and sports cars among other things). Now that I have three boys - 9, 7, and 4 - I'm overdue on getting them to get greasy! I have a couple of older 5hp racing style gocarts around here, but need something I can take the youngest for rides in with me - or I'll have one upset 4 year old.
So, just to get going quickly, last night I picked up what I think is a Yerf 30033 that's in reasonable shape last night through craigslist. Typical "it ran last year" condition, it'll be running this afternoon. It has a Tecumseh, which I thoroughly despise, but it'll be a start. My childhood gocarts tended to be whatever yard-cart my dad could work a trade for in the late 70's - horribly rough frames with cast iron Briggs washing machine engines. I distinctly remember glass fuel filter bowls and wind up rope starters... But boy did I learn from making those things stay running!
Looking further ahead I want to build a couple of 2 seat mini-buggies, and will do so from scratch. I have a small mandrel tube bending business, and can fabricate about anything I want quite easily. I will be sure to post those projects when I get to that point.
Thank you for the great forum!
Jason
I am recently getting back into gocarts after owning several as a kid and a few as an "adult". Gocarts were a HUGE factor in my learning of mechanical things (I'm now an engineer and have been involved with designing race and sports cars among other things). Now that I have three boys - 9, 7, and 4 - I'm overdue on getting them to get greasy! I have a couple of older 5hp racing style gocarts around here, but need something I can take the youngest for rides in with me - or I'll have one upset 4 year old.
So, just to get going quickly, last night I picked up what I think is a Yerf 30033 that's in reasonable shape last night through craigslist. Typical "it ran last year" condition, it'll be running this afternoon. It has a Tecumseh, which I thoroughly despise, but it'll be a start. My childhood gocarts tended to be whatever yard-cart my dad could work a trade for in the late 70's - horribly rough frames with cast iron Briggs washing machine engines. I distinctly remember glass fuel filter bowls and wind up rope starters... But boy did I learn from making those things stay running!
Looking further ahead I want to build a couple of 2 seat mini-buggies, and will do so from scratch. I have a small mandrel tube bending business, and can fabricate about anything I want quite easily. I will be sure to post those projects when I get to that point.
Thank you for the great forum!
Jason
