Need help

[Single Finger]

I need some help identifying these wheels and sprocket set up. I have searched for weeks and haven’t found anything like them. They came on an old vintage fiberglass body f1 cart. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Denny]

Junk, irreplaceable, unobtanium. Those were cheap promo karts. You will not find replacement parts anywhere for any price unfortunately. You will need to adapt real yard kart wheels and drivetrain. Sorry.

 

[Hellion]

Ah yes, a Funder Wheels go kart with its proprietary parts. A lot of the other Formula 1/Indy car replica go karts were just a fiberglass body over a conventional go kart with chains and sprockets and the usual metal parts. Not so with these contraptions, they used a lot of plastic (and a belt drive with reduction gear IIRC). Honestly, I'd sell it and rake in some cash:

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/funder-wheels-pennzoil-indy-go-kart/

 

[JimD]

The boys are telling you the truth, hard to find for parts. Action Products out of Tempe, AZ is where they were located. The Briggs engine was a special with an extra long crank to accommodate the timing belt clutch which was spec out by the company. The timing belt was 5mm pitch versus the 8mm you would find on a racing enduro kart. The karts were originally designed for Sears and they cancelled the contract so then what the heck do you do with 10,000 karts? You put logos on them and sell them to gas stations for promotion grand openings and car dealerships for give a ways with the purchase of a new car.

The downfall was the plastic drive wheel with the brake drum attached to it. Brakes generate heat, heat warps plastic and then you quickly have an out of round wheel. Like the boys suggested it isn't worth restoring. But it did have a GREAT CLUTCH.

 

[Hellion]

Cool story. Originally made for Sears... I had no idea the drive belt would be an OTS (off the shelf) timing belt and not a proprietary part made expressly for Action Products, but it makes total sense.

It is POSSIBLE to convert the kart to standard fun kart configuration with standard wheels and such but it would take time and money and "ruin" the value of the kart as it is.

I have searched for weeks and haven’t found anything like them.

No one ever asked you why you were searching for those wheels. They look fine and undamaged, what is the issue?

 

[Single Finger]

Ah yes, a Funder Wheels go kart with its proprietary parts. A lot of the other Formula 1/Indy car replica go karts were just a fiberglass body over a conventional go kart with chains and sprockets and the usual metal parts. Not so with these contraptions, they used a lot of plastic (and a belt drive with reduction gear IIRC). Honestly, I'd sell it and rake in some cash:

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/funder-wheels-pennzoil-indy-go-kart/

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Thanks for all the input guys. I appreciate it. I got it up and running. I put a predator 224 motor in and deleted the hand controls. I fabled up some pedals so it has foot controls now. First run the bead on the plastic wheel blew off. On the drive wheel of course. So we had some thin wheel adapters and created a bead lock by screwing them into the plastic wheel. We’ve ran at least 2 tanks through it now and no issues so far.

 

[Hellion]

I got it up and running. I put a predator 224 motor in. . .

Wild, man. You're the crazy kind of person we like to see.

More photos please. Heck, put them in the Go Kart Discussion subforum to get maximum traffic. We'd love to see the mods you did and further explanation with photos. Do a video and put in on Youtube.