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Category: Go Kart Building

Go Kart Part Tip: Buying Parts at One Place, Beware of Shipping. Looking For a Good Deal.

September 25, 2015 July 17, 2021Go Kart Building 0

Invariably it comes down to finding the parts you need for your go kart in a timely manner, and tearing apart a tractor is sometimes just not worth the time, especially when time is limited. So the temptation is to buy parts for your go kart all in one shot. […]

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Design Build and Test in 7 Weeks: The Wood Go Kart Movie Extravaganza

September 17, 2015 July 17, 2021Go Kart Building 0

A lot of exciting things have  been happening over the past year. We have been so busy it has been difficult to sit down and write a decent letter.  But here it is, the great news we have for you.   The past year has been a roller coaster ride of […]

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The Best Kept Secret About How to Use Tractor Wheels On Your Go Kart

April 5, 2014 July 17, 2021Go Kart Building, Go Kart Drive Systems 1

A riding lawnmower tractor is one of the best resources or goldmines for sourcing parts for a homemade go kart. There are so many goodies on the riding lawnmower that it just makes it the best bargain around for fabricating your own go kart. Typically a riding lawnmower can be […]

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Don’t Spend an Arm and a Leg on Nuts and Bolts!

October 27, 2013 July 5, 2021Go Kart Building 0

I will be honest, the last thing I think about for the Go Kart is nuts and bolts.  Nuts and bolts are cheap and really should not be something to worry about…right?!   Uh….Wrong! I almost fainted the other day when I was putting together our wood gokart.  We needed some […]

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Suspensions and Unsprung Wieght

March 10, 2012 July 4, 2021Go Kart Building, Go Kart Steering 0

I watched a couple of your youtube videos on suspensions and have a question. I completed a clutch driven go kart with stub axles and no suspension, but would like to add a torque converter. So I’ll need a live axle, and i thought I I’d add a suspension while […]

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Making a Free Wheeling Coaster Brake Drive For a Pedal Go Kart

June 25, 2011 July 17, 2021Go Kart Building 2

I have been racking my brain on how to develop a rear coaster brake system for a pedal go kart for a while now and it dawned on me the other day that I was making it too complicated. It does however require two bicycle rear ends to complete the […]

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Go Kart Project: Father Daughter Experience

November 27, 2010 September 29, 2021Go Kart Building 2

The weekends  they come and they go.  You ask a guy on Monday morning what he did this weekend and he will say it was way too short.  Usually that means is that they had limited family time to themselves.  They did not have any time to do any thing […]

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Bevel Gear Drive: The Vertical Engine Solution?

October 23, 2010 July 2, 2021Go Kart Building 2

Question: I have this set of bevel gears that I found when I took apart this transmission on a riding lawn mower, and I was wondering can you use these bevel gears to convert a vertical engine to run horizontally and then run a go kart? That’s a great question, […]

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