Sandrail/go kart project

[That One Guy]

Wire up some lights... I love lights...

 

[Hunter65]

Lol lights? I mean really how plain is that. Haha. i need something totally sweet like a...........heated seat! or or or a..........horn that goes ow-uuu-ga! lol.

 

[That One Guy]

Harbor Freight has Oooga horns for like, 15 bucks, last I checked So ooga away!

 

[Hunter65]

Haha yes i shall do that.....maybe lol.

 

[That One Guy]

I want to get some train horns, but I dont have the money, or the room for an air compressor in my kart.

 

[Hunter65]

Umm what exactly is a train horn? Haha.

 

[That One Guy]

You know... the horns that locomotives have?

 

[Hunter65]

Ah i see thats pretty self explanatory lol.

 

[That One Guy]

Yeah. You can buy em online for a couple thou.

 

[Hunter65]

Haha well thats only a couple thousand over my budget of about 0 dollars at the moment.

 

[That One Guy]

I understand I'm in the same boat.

 

[Hunter65]

Ya i get most of my parts free and since i live on a farm their is plenty of scrap metal around to use.

 

[That One Guy]

I'm on a farm too. In fact, I just secured myself two Honda trail 110shocks for the rear, so now i can use yours as my front ones.

 

[Hunter65]

Sweet! Im not really sure what the travel is on them though.

 

[That One Guy]

Mine are 13" center to center. Where are you?

 

[Hunter65]

Ok so i sorta forgot about this thread but im back now. But anyways... I havn't really done anything to it because the weather has been cold and im a couch potato in the winter haha. So i decided that i dont really want to use the front end of the four wheeler and so i want to take off the a-arms and the shocks and start building a new frame using square tubing because that would be a lot easier to weld on. Also i need some ideas on how to attach the rear swingarm. I seen that somebody on here used a hinge but i was thinking i should use bearings?? Any ideas on the swing arm would be greatly appreciated.

 

[That One Guy]

I'm totally ditching the ENTIRE suspension idea. Too complicated and time consuming for this year. maybe next year I'll do it. But if you do a swingarm.... Just make sure that it's pivot it vertically matched with your drive sprocket.

 

[Hunter65]

Ok so i got a different power plant for my sandrail. Its an arctic cat 500cc twin free air. And it runs so thats a plus. Tomorrow my friend and i are going to weld up the rear swingarm and junk like that. And i got some sweet lights for it.

 

[Hunter65]

Ok i came across a problem. So i took the jackshaft from the snowmobile off today and the end of it is splined. But the splines are somewhat large so i dunno how im going to find a sprocket to fit it.

 

[Kaptain Krunch]

Cut off the splines and turn down the shaft the a common size, and cut a keyway into it.