So last weekend my daughter had a friend around, and they were riding the kart in the road with me supervising. They were taking turns, and when they got a bit tired of it, I said I would take a turn.
So I am zooming up and down the road, doing really sharp turns when turning round. You know when you turn real fast it feels like the back of the kart is swinging out...Well, I was doing that.
Apparently the stress on the shaft holding the wheel was just too much, and it snapped at the point where the bolt was welded to the axle. The wheel went rolling off into the neighbors gete, and I skidded to s stop riding on the sprocket. My daughter said she saw sparks. There is also a nice groove in the tar from the sprocket scraping along it. It looks like it was a really bad weld. I haven't taken the wheel of the bolt yet. I was just too bummed about it.
I am going to have to weld it back on again, but am not too sure of the best way to do it so that the wheel turns without wobbling, and fixing it that it doesn't break there again
What does everyone suggest?
So I am zooming up and down the road, doing really sharp turns when turning round. You know when you turn real fast it feels like the back of the kart is swinging out...Well, I was doing that.
Apparently the stress on the shaft holding the wheel was just too much, and it snapped at the point where the bolt was welded to the axle. The wheel went rolling off into the neighbors gete, and I skidded to s stop riding on the sprocket. My daughter said she saw sparks. There is also a nice groove in the tar from the sprocket scraping along it. It looks like it was a really bad weld. I haven't taken the wheel of the bolt yet. I was just too bummed about it.
I am going to have to weld it back on again, but am not too sure of the best way to do it so that the wheel turns without wobbling, and fixing it that it doesn't break there again
What does everyone suggest?
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this weekend, so I won't be able to do it sooner.