tinkerman73
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Well, sorta mine. LOL. When I was about 8, my dad had a guy he new build a cheap kart out of used parts for $50. He brought it home. Momma said I could not ride it if she could not. So she tried. She thought the kart was too fast and she screamed. When she went to stop, she got disoriented and ended up throwing her feet out to try to stop. Well, that hurt her legs and she shot down the embankment, across the road and down into the neighbors yard. So needless to say, I had one chance to ride it after they argued. Then momma won anyways. So here we are 30 years later and I have three kids. A 11 year old daughter, a 9 year old son and a 7 year old son. So I loving to tinker got thinking I had a couple of motors, two parts tractors. What could I build. What could I find for a frame. Well, my searches found many crappy small karts for around $150. Then I found this one bigger more solid and much cooler kart. Guy had it listed for $100, then lowered it to $75. I walked out of there $60 later with it. The first four pictures are as it sat. The last couple are after tearing it down to bare bones tonight. First plan of attack is to grind everything down smooth and shiny. Then make mods needed, replace the rear otor plate and add a front roll bar to it. Then start painting in kids choice of color. Then we will rebuild the rest as we go. I was wanting to use my Old Briggs and Stratton cast iron 16HP motor. But, after some thought, I realized that it is probably geared lower since it is a power house! So I think I will go with a low hour 7HP snow king motor off of a snow blower. This is currently a pull start engine. However, I do have a electric start set up for it(110). But, I will want to convert it to battery start if I can. Otherwise, I have a higher use 5 HP Tecumseh. I also have a much older 5HP Briggs off of a old Torro rotory mower. So for power, we will wait and see for sure. I do also have a really nice Briggs 12HP vert shaft. But, I would rather run a horizontal shaft. I am also contemplating useing a mower 6 speed rear end so we can drive it slow or fast and go backwards. Help in parades and rough trails and I can also use it to move several of my trailers around. HEHEHE. So without further ado, here are the pics of my new project for our first kart! Along the way, I will have any questions, so bare with me and hopefully my kids and I can learn a couple of things and have some fun along the way. Hopefully this will turn out to coax us to a couple more scratch built karts. HEHEHE. Oh, one picture also shows a hint of its past. The guy said that it had been used back in the 60's for racing from what he had been told. He thought maybe it was a kit kart. But he had questioned that. Looking at it, I thnk if it was, there had been many mods to it. But I think maybe moe so, it was a scratch built kart? Does anyone know? Thanks.
while he says 
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Someday maybe he will listen?
Using wire wheels throw off a lot of bristles. One can easily get lodged in your kids eye. Grinders also throw off sparks and metal pieces. I am not just making this up. I have had countless pieces of stuff hit me in the face and on my goggles. (I should actually get a full face mask.) 