n my adventures over the years I have fallen into the trap of putting pressure on myself to make go karts out of junk, out of old tractors, old vertical engines, out of wood….this list goes on. I am a little special in that I try to put myself into […]
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 […]
Question: Does increasing the rear sprocket size to be the same size (or nearly the same size of the tire) cause the go kart to loose speed, especially as the tire gets bigger? The question is a peculiar one especially for those that are making their own go kart and […]
The wood go kart steering is based off a bogie mechanism where the front wheels are mounted to one axle and the main axle on the front pivots at a center point. The bogie concept is based on basically a wagon geometry however it is very efficient as far as […]
One thing I like about projects is that they are mini building programs. Ever onward, ever upward, step by step, plug along until you finally see the fantastic results. Go Karts as you know are those types of projects, but as you well know too, once the go kart is […]
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 […]
You may have run into this or you may run into this where you are riding your go kart on a bumpy, gravely driveway and suddenly the go kart stops running properly. It just up and quits. “Why would the go kart suddenly quit?” Is the question in your mind […]
Question: Can a simple pulley and twisted belt drive system work on a go kart for a drive system? Answer: No, the belt will slip, and there will be tracking problems. The answer seems simple enough, the belts slipping and belt tracking, but there is more than meets the eye […]
