my cart

[punkrawkrider]

yeah that thing is gonna be going about 85 when the frame starts to disintegrate haha....i should take some pics of the gokart my grandparents bought me a few years back....it stays at their house though

custom built....... bent tube frame, wide rear tires, belt to chain final drive, 11 HP engine on it.....thinking anout putting in a 12.5hp with electric start

cam

[shakes_nig_rig]

ya i was wireing it up and seeing which wire went to which cilinder so i grabed the big coil wire and turned it over and got droped on my ass. the one coil is off of a v8 and the other is a regular cycle coil.

[bryce]

DAyum, were you smoking dried monkey sh!t when you welded that frame? I think I could make better looking welds with no gas at all..holy sh!t dude.

[greasemonkey]

those welds look like a bunch of tack.. the frame is goin to callapse.. i can see it bowing under its own weight.. the roll cage isnt straight. its not going to be safe.. i would let acrash dumby in there he might get hurt. no offesne.. but i hope you didnbt plan on winnig anything if you take it to the 4-h thingy lik ei think you said

[shakes_nig_rig]

dumbasses have you ever welded galvinised steel? you have to burn thrugh the galvinising and get all of it up to the surface for it to hold. and dont wory weve had 3 people jumping on it at the same time. it is almost imposible to have half ass good looking welds on galvinised steel and id like to see u weld on some bryce.

[MX588]

haha this could start a flame war...lets hear some comebacks.

[MX588]

I hope you were wearing a mask though...because the fumes that comes off things galvanized are fatal.

[greasemonkey]

shakes said:

dumbasses have you ever welded galvinised steel? you have to burn thrugh the galvinising and get all of it up to the surface for it to hold. and dont wory weve had 3 people jumping on it at the same time. it is almost imposible to have half ass good looking welds on galvinised steel and id like to see u weld on some bryce.

first of all your not supose to weld galvanized steal becasue the galvanization sh!t is extremly toxic if you inhale it.. if you do weld it tho you are supose to grind the hell out of it to get all the galvanization off of it... i hight doubt that 3 ppl jumped on it becasue i can see right now were and how the frame is going to crack. instead of using tubing on the botton rail for the frame you should of used at least 1/4 inch angle iron. what gauge tubing are you using?? to me it looks like conduet(sp) tubing( the tubing electrical wires are ran thru in buildings).. to me that was a decide as you go project nothing thought out at all.. ive got a go cart in the back that i made as a decide as you go il get pics of that soon so yall can try to flame that but im sticking with that i think/know were the frame will bend/crack. break at.. im gunna take that one picture of your cart and show ya were i think it will do that

[greasemonkey]

here is were i think your gunna have problems(red)goes for both sides)
what i think you could do to strengthen you frame(black)but with the black you should do it to both sidesas well)

[greasemonkey]

and how you gunna go about when ya shift?? if you need help with that i can show ya something real quick in paint then tomoro ill go out back and take pictures of the go cart i made and show ya a better picture of the shifter linkages

[MX588]

greasemonkey said:

and how you gunna go about when ya shift?? if you need help with that i can show ya something real quick in paint then tomoro ill go out back and take pictures of the go cart i made and show ya a better picture of the shifter linkages

BottomFrame tubing - I think he used tubing off a old swingset.

Shifting - He said he is going to run a lever or something up so that he can shift it.

[bryce]

shakes said:

dumbasses have you ever welded galvinised steel? you have to burn thrugh the galvinising and get all of it up to the surface for it to hold. and dont wory weve had 3 people jumping on it at the same time. it is almost imposible to have half ass good looking welds on galvinised steel and id like to see u weld on some bryce.

Your colors are still showing. Don't you know enough to grind off the galvanizing before you weld on it? No wonder those welds look like sh!t...and you could definitely use some extra support on that frame...90 degree joints don't always hold up so well...weld in some more cross braces, and then put in some 3/16" or 1/4" gussets in the corners. Make sure you really put the heat to it so you get good penetration. But don't listen to me if you want, because I only weld on farm equipment that holds up to serious beating. Don't take this is an insult, rather as useful information.

[shakes_nig_rig]

you cant get all the galvinising off of well pipe. its inside and outside and mixed in with the metal. yes i did use a mask and a fan and had all the dores open in the shop when i was welding. there is no way i would use electrical conduet for a gocart frame. the tubing i used is 16 foot well pipe lengths the walls are 1/8th inch thick. and i too weld on farm equiptment and know what it takes to weld lots of metal anything from old rusty sh!t to good stock steel. i had the amprige about 4 on a 6 seting wire feed welder and the wire speed at about 30-40. it is chanle iron for the flat pece and the joints at the botpm of the frame i slid the galvinised pipe into the other pipe about 8 inches. the only stuf i used off of the swing set was a litle pece of the slide for a skid plate the rest of the cart is the old cart or well pipe or milker stanson head holder pipe. last night i went out and started doing strength tests with a 1 inch rachet strap and a tapemesure. i mesured from point to point and wrote theose down and then started pulling on difernt parts whre you people have expresed concern and i ended up braking my good rachet strap and would take mesurements ass i went and they didnt change.i then got out the big 2 inch rachet and the only place that moved was behind the center o the top where it goes doen to the back they can 1/16 of a inch closer to eachother and the two side gards ( the outside rails that are there to bounce off of trees and keep your legs in) moved about a 1/2 inch when i pulled them twards eachother but not when i pulled them down. the only part that i am concerned about is underneath the moter on the front mount. that is about the only part that i might brace. the frame is in sections so if one pece bends i can jist take it out and replace the bad parts and suport it if it does bend. and i am going to have shifter lincage come up to a jockey shift which will have the clutch on it.

[greasemonkey]

the motor mount is the thing that i think would be the first to break.. but I still think that i would support what i showed just for the reason i take sh!t to extreme and beat it.. i will jump anything..

[MX588]

even your mom?

[greasemonkey]

admin said:

even your mom?

nope but your mom does pretty good

[MX588]

you shut your mouth...who is the brains of this operation

[Erik420]

LOL this thread is funny

[greasemonkey]

admin said:

you shut your mouth...who is the brains of this operation

excatly what operation are we talking??

[MX588]

operation = the forum