Mini monster truck rebuild

[Possom Point]

Hey everyone, me and my son are going to be starting a project together, we bought a go kart monster truck earlier last year and never really knew who made it until recently. The body was severely busted and broken up but the frame was still in good shape. With this go kart I will need some help from the more experienced members, there is a faint sticker on the steering shaft that says “Action Performance Companies INC”. I’ve never heard of them and I thought this was an older model Carter brothers truck, but it wasn’t. I haven’t found much info about it at least how I typed the search. We found a different truck body a few weeks ago up in West Virginia (worth the drive), but this one fits the road karts, ones low to the ground for asphalt/concrete driving. Please let me know what info you guys have to help us out.
Parts list so far…
Lifan 212 electric start
a set of 2 charging coils
sprocket hub adapter
Vevor forward/reverse gearbox
new 30 series Torque converter
ignitionswitchpanel

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[Denny]

The tan body is a Subaru Brat. Keep the Chevy truck body and repair it and make a new roof. That’s a cool cart an I’ve never seen one before like it. The full floor board is unique. Post the pictures directly instead of that hidden stuff. Hellion can tell you how.

 

[Possom Point]

The tan body is a Subaru Brat. Keep the Chevy truck body and repair it and make a new roof. That’s a cool cart an I’ve never seen one before like it. The full floor board is unique. Post the pictures directly instead of that hidden stuff. Hellion can tell you how.

The Chevy body is some type of plastic. Not fiberglass. I plan to keep it but I have no idea how to repair plastic. The tan body has some real bad cracks in the gel coat but that’ll get fixed once we get the frame cleaned up, I am also going to have to give the body a body lift of sorts, since this wasn’t a direct fit, I’m thinking of some flat bar, maybe 3-4” tall to clear the tires.

 

[Possom Point]

Post the pictures directly instead of that hidden stuff. Hellion can tell you how.

sorry about that, I do all this with my phone, some reason the format is different

 

[Grizzlymi]

I would have killed for one these monster truck karts as a kid! Maybe not literally, but close to it.

 

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Finally got around to do some work on the mini truck. Took old motor off and briefly put the new one on for reference.View attachment IMG_8157.jpeg

 

[Hellion]

I would have killed for one these monster truck karts as a kid! Maybe not literally, but close to it.

I think we "waffle" on the karts with bodies thing. First we're like COOL, then we see the body as superfluous and maybe too much trouble, too easily damaged, makes ingress/egress into it (literally sitting in the kart instead of on it) problematic and so forth. But now they're cool and the Carter Brothers Grave Digger and Big Foot mini monsters for example, are beyond cool.

Those mini monster trucks are kind of really rare? Most of us have seen or have experience with the Indy, Stock Car and Model T karts but got bored with them over the years...

Finally got around to do some work on the mini truck. Took old motor off and briefly put the new one on for reference.

That genuine Lifan motor is kick butt.

 

[Possom Point]

Got some work done. This kart sat for a really long time. Outside.. the wheels weee seaized up on the axle as well as the brakes, sprocket, bearings and hub. I hate that I had to do this but I couldn’t get the axle out because the hanger bearings were seaized so bad I had to cut the axle in half
I really wanted to keep this as original as possible as far as main parts but not this go around. I used my torch, Kroil, hammers, wood blocks and steel rods to attempt to loosen parts to get them apart. This axle design is nothing like I’ve seen or dealt with. Check out the pics.
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