Sometimes I have to shake my head when different drive systems are proposed. I shake my head because a drive system is designed to transfer the drive torque of the engine to the wheels, yes that is true, but how much torque is the clincher. Very often we think that just […]
You thought you had this great idea and that idea was to use the riding lawnmower or the old John Deere tractor sitting in the backyard and make a go kart out of it. But that idea seemed to fade as you started trying to use various components off of […]
By Robert Gamble “The Go Kart Guru” (Copyright 2009) This article is written in response to a great question about torque-a-verters. Here is the question: “I have a cart with a 8 hp motor, comet clutch and a jack shaft but it still doesn’t climb hills well…. The clutch is […]
You may have observed or you may have heard through the grapevine that the wood go kart uses a wood pulley. The wood pulley however has some little tricks to it and if you don’t pay attention to these little tricks you’ll end up with a wobbly wood pulley. In […]
When you’re developing a go kart and you want adjustability in your design invariably what you will run into is making slots. Slots basically are long holes or stretched out holes. Sometimes drilling extra large holes just doesn’t cut it you need to have a slot in your design so […]
One of the biggest disappointments that you will run into is getting your go kart put all together and then finding out that you cannot ride across the yard, much less climb a hill. The main reason why the go kart will not climb the hill is that the overall […]
They’re different kinds of welding and they can be summed up into a couple of areas but the average homeowner is only going to have the ability to use a stick welder, so that is the primary welding that we are going to talk about in this article. (The different […]
We’ve all seen the cool go kart with Bud Lite printed on the side of it and a guy driving around in it. It looks really cool like a race car, because it has a fiberglass body on it. The question is how do you make a fiberglass body like […]
