- Okay, part two of my project
where I make a go-kart using simple tools and no welder!
So Colin, where are we at?
Right, so we've got a chassis,
and we've got our engine mounted.
And now we know where the engine is,
we can put a seat on.
So for the seat, I've got a bit of flat plate,
and a bit of angle iron, and I've just bolted them to it,
you get these little bolts that already come in it.
And then we're just gonna pin that on there, just like that.
Now if you ain't got one of these, don't worry about it,
because there's gonna be a sheet of ply
going onto the whole thing towards the end,
so there's no reason why you can't just sit on that
with a bit of an up stand on.
So, let's bolt this on here.
And then, we'll work on our steering column.
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There we are, got a steering column.
It's pretty solid.
Now the track rods,
bit of 10 mil threaded bar,
with some rose bearings on the end.
You can get rose bearings off Ebay,
they're about £3 each.
If you want to adjust it you'll
just have to undo the bolt, flip the thing off
and then wind it back on again.
But you know, we can live with that.
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Right that's got that sorted,
nice and strong.
Now I put this little bit of wood up here,
not as a decorative thing, but to hold the fuel tank.
Now there's a little bracket here, as you can see,
because I've managed to cannibalize
this little windscreen wash bottle.
Now I can't remember what vehicle this has come off,
but I know it was off a Japanese one, that much is true.
But if you can't get hold of one of these,
you go on Ebay and just search like little mini fuel tank,
and you can get things like this and then you can screw
that to it just the same as you can this.
Now clip that on there,
there's a little sliding bit,
that will go on.
And then, take my little screw I've gotten in there,
that will pop straight down, top of the carb, like so.
Now, next thing we got, exhaust pipe
and then do all the electrics.
It's good to do the exhaust pipe first,
because time and time again I've got all my electrics
sorted, gone to put the exhaust pipe on and,
oh God the exhaust pipes going to melt all the electrics.
So do the exhaust pipe first.
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Filing it so smooth.
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Right, that's the exhaust fixed,
looks very nice but we can't just leave it,
just hanging around there, because it's only
connected up onto the engine and that will work it's
way loose and then it'll be flopping all over the place.
But, you get this little band which comes with the exhaust,
so you're going to stick that round the cam, like that.
Then we going to get another little bit of threaded bar,
we going to drill holes in our little, 45 uprights here.
Thread it through, through the clamp, but also get yourself
a little bit of 22 mil plug in pipe or anything the same
diameter, pretty much as a set of handlebars,
because you going to put that in the end there,
and also that's gonna hold our little start stop switch
thing which all comes with the wiring loop.
And then that will hold that nice and secure,
nice and stumpy, nice and neat.
You can't ask for anything more really.
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Now the electrics look more complicated
than what they actually are.
But , you've just got five wires
which stick out of the engine,
which come out from right behind the stator cap.
Now there's this other wire which
pops out behind the sprocket,
that's if you've got like gear lights which tells you
what gear you're in, but we don't need to worry about that,
so just cut that off.
Now then, you basically just connect the five wires
up to the engine and they're these
little ones that pop out here.
They're all color coded, so you can't get them wrong.
And then all the other bits and bobs, like the stator
the ventilator and the kind of CDI unit,
just, you know, kind of just bolt or zip tie up
around the frame, around here.
And then this little starter switch which,
would go on the handle bars,
that's gonna go on my little piece of copper, down here.
And then, the ignition key, we can just cable tie
that to the side of the frame.
Now the only complication I've got on this one,
which you might on yours,
is I've got one with a starter motor, so you've got a
starter solanoid, which basically needs hooking
up to the battery.
But that doesn't matter, I'm gonna sit the battery
down here, because we've got loads of space
around this go-kart.
And then by the time we've clipped and cable tied
it all up, it'll actually look quite neat.
And it won't look so complicated.
So basically, you're gonna need a lot
of cable ties for this.
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There we are.
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Next thing, brakes, accelerator and gears.
And then it's, it's done.
Now the back brake has actually worked out really well.
I've basically just got the caliper, bolted it to a piece
of angle iron, about to take a little kind of half moon out
of it, so it sits on it properly.
And then you just stick it over the desk,
like that and then I can just bolt it to the frame.
And there we are, it's a complete fluke but I'll take it.
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Right, gear system, super simple.
I basically put the gearstick that comes with
the engine, on the engine,
in a straight up position.
There's a little rubber thing on it,
you can pull that off.
And then we'll stick this bar,
which has got a hole on each end,
shove that across there and then similar
to the brake at the front.
I've just got another little bit
of metal which I've hinged on a bolt,
and we'll just bolt and connect the two together,
and that'll be it.
Push forward to go down the gears,
pull back to go up the gears.
And I've got a little bit of tube,
which I can slot over the top.
Just to, make it little bit nicer to grip,
and also if you catch your leg on that,
a bit sharp that is.
We don't want that, do we?
Health and safety people, ha ha.
Now the accelerator is kind of similar to the brake.
I've put a bolt right out, slid it over.
I've used a bit of box action this time.
Stuck a lock nut on it,
that's all really nice.
Now I've had to add like a little stopper,
to this one, because obviously there's
a spring in the carburetor.
And when you take the foot off the pedal,
it's going to want to spring forward.
So, it doesn't come too far forward,
and flop on the ground.
Nice little stopper, so it hits that,
can't go anywhere.
And I've bent a little bit of plate up,
drilled some holes in it,
and that's what the cables actually
going to fix onto,
for the accelerator.
Now there's a little stopper up here,
which I've just bent a piece of metal up,
and than got a,
what are those things called?
Little adjusters you get on a bike brakes.
So I've put one of them on, and than the cable itself,
it's a mountain bike gear cable.
And you know the little nipple thing on the end,
you kind of have to grind that down to a point,
because where you put it through,
the little carved, floaty mac-thingy.
It's a tiny little hole,
normally throttle cables have real tiny
little beads on them, but there's no need
to go and get one.
You can make one yourself, because
this one needs to be quite long.
So if we just shove that in the old carb.
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There we go.
Right, just about done.
Now then, last job,
you just want to put this bit of plywood underneath.
Now the reason why I'm doing that,
because we haven't welded this together.
There are bolts, you know,
they can,
there's a bit of play and stuff like that.
So it's going to kind of,
add a little bit of strength to it.
And also, formula 1 cars have plywood,
so I can't see why we can't?
Hey?
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There we are,
finished.
So, all it needs now is take it apart,
and give it some paint,
and than it will look like this.
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Well, it's not done bad.
It's not shook itself to bits,
the gearing can be changed,
and to be fair, fourth gear could probably be second gear.
Other than that, pretty impressed with it.
And there we have it.
Now if you check out my other channel,
there's all sorts of other projects, but if you want another
no weld project,
I've actually made a jet engine.
That's up in this box here.
And if you've made this and it's given
you a little bit of confidence,
and you want to get a welder
and try something very similar.
You can make a drift trike,
and that's over in this box here.
But for now, there we are.
The new world go-kart.
See you in the next one.
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