Yeah, I have a million projects. This one has been sitting for a while now. It didn't run right when we got it and the left rear tire had a leak. The previous owner let me know there was a bad diaphragm in the Carb so I pulled the fuel pump cover off and it wasn't bad it was toast. Needless to say, I didn't take pictures before I started taking things apart. Oh well :D Here we have the chassis with the damn wheel removed. Thats a whole new ball of wax I realized. I have swapped many a tire but this plastic wheel makes things more difficult.
Here is a side view. Nice steering assembly. the tires are all pretty worn. the front are not too bad. They are a little loose where they mount to the um . . . brain fart. the part that they attach too. yeah. We'll get them pulled off, greased up and happy. You can almost see that damn wheel behind the blue thing on the bottom left. Oh how I curse that wheel!
AH HA!
I think I may have figured out a solution to the wheel funk! YAY, Its time to build a custom tool just for that damn tire. should be easy enough. Its like a reverse spin off of the bar from a tire machine. Using the inside of the wheel as the fulcrum instead of the tire machine! Pics to follow. if it works anyway
This is a fairly good pic of what it "should" look like. This one is missing the spoiler that goes over the engine. As you can see is an F1 style racer. There's that God forsaken wheel right there. the grey and white. One of the front wing things was broke off of ours. I decided on a bold move and put on my body work hat for some quick modifications
So this is a better example. It really took some digging to find it. You can see the spoiler and the way the front fin things are set up. and again. that mother fucking wheel. Oh how I hate that bitch. I ended up cutting the old tire off and patching the tube. Now we have a good patched tube and a brand new tire that I can't for the life of me get back on the damn wheel. Looks like we may do some fabrication for a new drive/wheel assembly and replace it with something actually maintainable.
I cut that bitch off and filled it. It actually looks pretty good. I slapped a quick coat of paint on it to check my sanding and discovered a few cracks in the fiberglass. Not a big deal. they can be fixed up easy enough. Didn't turn out too bad if you ask me. I wouldn't call it finished by far. there are still some pits in the bondo that need some glazing putty, but for a kids go-kart. . . Yeah its fine :D
See the pits right there :D Meh, whatever. no biggie. the gloss black I had laying around really shows the cracks nicely so getting them fixored should be easy enough. Im going to get all the prep work done and let the kiddos paint this bad chicken. I think sanding on the fiber glass is not a good idea for them.
All the body pieces hanging out. that spoiler is going to be a real PITA to sand and prep. But I have painted worse :D
Me and the boy went shopping for bits and pieces so I decided we'd pick up some paint. He picked that nice blue color. Looks pretty good. with the black tester paint I got an idea so masked out a stripe up the body like so, and hit it with some of the blue to see how it'd look. Not bad. Now time to wait for the engine parts, and get as much other junk done as we can. That tire/wheel/drive assembly is going to be a good challenge. I believe it will be a lot of fun designing and building the pieces with the kids.
Well That's it for now. As we progress I will post updates. If you haven't noticed yet I'm a fairly eclectic individual. Those of you that know me understand all too well my tangents. Thanks for stopping in, Cheers and see you all later.
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