Building a Go-Kart

Tommyjoe asked me if we could build a go-kart, so I had a look around to see what we had and found two old pushchairs and a bike.  

We went over to the timber merchants and bought:

1 length 4"x2"x 2.4mtrs long

1 length 4"x1"x 2.4mtrs long

half a sheet of M.D.F 2400mm x 600mm
1 M12 bolt 160mm long with washers and nylon threaded nuts.

We started by cutting the 4x2 timber for the chassis, 

1@ 1250mm

2@ 550mm.

We fixed the rear axle to the main chassis member with screws and the front axle using a M12 bolt 160mm long using two nylon threaded nuts to act as locking nuts so they did not come undone when using the steering.

Next step was to remove the rear axle of the pushchair and modify it to fit on the chassis of the kart, the karts rear axle was 550mm wide and the pushchair was only 450mm wide so I decided to cut it in half and fix it the chassis at the right width, then we fixed the rear wheels to it.

Nect step was to fit the front wheels to the axle, I used a couple of old stabiliser brackets and changed the wheels over, these were bolted into place.  Then we started to construct the seat using the M.D.F, we cut this into the sizes we needed.

1@ 700mm x 600mm
2@ 700mm x 100mm
1@ 600mm x 100mm

these were fixed into place using screws.

The last thing to add to the kart was a rope to help with the steering for those that could not do it with their feet and a brake.

The finished Go-kart.