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 […]
Well this has been quite a year. We made a wood go kart a pedal wood go kart and managed to work on the vertical engine go kart little bit this year too. We made a full-length video and managed to get a blog up this year as well. We’ve […]
Go karts are fun vehicles and can provide hours upon hours of exciting energy filled afternoons, but these afternoons can end tragically and put the go kart on the black list for the rest of your life. Don’t make this one of your legacies. There are 10 Tips that will […]
It happens to all of us. We find that thrown away engine and are curious as to whether the insides of it are any good and decide to disassemble it. When I was in high school I was disassembling my engines all the time mainly because I liked to. But […]
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 […]
Some of us when we are looking at an engine we get scared. We see springs and levers and linkages coming out from who knows where; we know they’re important for the operation of the engine. As an example I was doing a little wood splitting this weekend and if […]
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 […]
