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 often get befuddled or confused when looking at engine circuitry and throw up our hands in despair, because it looks to overwhelming. The first thing to understand about a go kart starting circuit is that the click sound is coming from somewhere. In this instance it is more than […]
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 […]
The steering got wobbly, the steering wheel started shaking, the front wheel started shimmying and the go kart seem to be out of control. The boy with his father had just put together a go kart but it seemed to be falling apart all ready. What’s going on here? Well […]
“I have a 10.8 HP motor that can get up to 3600 RPM. I am running a large sprocket that’s 54 teeth on a live axel and a small sprocket that’s 12 teeth on a jackshaft that has a heavy duty torque converter. I currently have a #40 chain on […]
Fall is approaching and those winter months are just around the corner. The go kart will need to be put away for the winter because typically it is too cold and too wet and too slippery to ride a go kart in wintertime. There are some key tips or key […]
The last time we discussed our uncle Jim’s Corvette going really quickly at the drag strip. We calculated using the straight-line motion equations that the car at the end of the drag strip was going about 137 mph. We also learned that his rate of change of velocity is called […]
