Build & Test Drive a Seat Racer? Bar Stool Cart? 😅

hey guys welcome back for another video this one is fun because this is the first saturday that there's not just been a major to-do list even though there is kind of a to-do list so dad woke up this morning after thanksgiving we have our friend jim thistle here and he was like i know what i'm gonna do today it's like i think i think this needs to be a youtube video so you see it on the floor shall we explain yep pause that does mean that we're back to turning the music off i haven't had to do that to him in quite a while it's off i know i just turned the radio i know and i'm very upset i know so anyways let's see what's up all right what's this the makings of or the beginnings of the making stuff what is this do you remember like when did we go to holly school 2014 because no 13 was the first year we went but i think this was in 2014. so that was how long ago was that seven years ago yeah seven years ago almost eight right yeah whatever 2014 yeah it is i had to think about it seven so almost while we were there i we were killing time we went to harbor freight and i saw the predator motor and it's like man i want to build a bar stool i've wanted to build a bar stool for a long time so we bought a predator motor we bought a bar stool i can't remember i think that was all we got from harbor freight but that was the beginnings of my barstool racer eight years ago eight years ago then i came back and ordered i had that axle for years ordered those wheels and tires from somewhere they've been sitting around here forever and i ordered sprockets and brake calipers what's all this junk that's i have gopro remind you that you need to talk louder sprockets and all this brake junk so sprockets and brake junk but back then i made a miniature 32 ford frame and i was going to build a kind of a different bar stool than anybody else had and that's a fully boxed miniature 32 ford frame and i got as far as getting the axle that far i had to plate it top and bottom and make an i-beam out of it and the rest is history the rest is history as and that's been leading up against that bolt been in the way for years literally years since like 2015 or something yeah well maybe 2014. yeah so today i went down this is something that like the many many riding things that we have in the lower shop that we bought for you guys for christmas and birthdays i'm going to rob the handle bars i found a throttle that has been lost is in a cabinet and luck i don't know how i found it but set handlebars are 7 8 inch we're going to make the frame out of one inch and the front axle out of one and an 8 inch chrome moly so you know i can bend up a set of handlebars but not seven eight so i'm gonna perfect and that gets one thing out of the way yeah i'm gonna throw the rest of it in the trash so check this out jim and i said i wonder if this motor will run does it does it just unbelievable it's unbelievable the problem is now it probably won't do what it did the first time but we literally went like this oh man and that's how fast it started it started on the first crank after eight years i started it when i got it and then turned it upside down drained the gas and it's been sitting on the shelf covered in dirt perfect so it runs like ready to go like a champ and i made these look at these little spindles look at those little spindles check out those things then you got all the hard part done yep it's now it's just bending a few tubes and welding together do we get to be driving a bar stool tonight hey i had those precisionly set it looks questionable at best no it was perfect thistle missile yes ma'am are you going to be of use today i've already clean and cleaning steel clean look at that he's already machined this tubing oh beautiful i noticed he had a little bit of dirt on his nose just a small sign of work maybe that's brown nose i think it's black nose perfect okay well then um first step is uh first step is we're gonna take this piece of inch and an eighth chromoly which incidentally this stuff is like gold no seriously one inch and three quarter inch an inch and an eight cost more than inch and five eighths and this is really thin wall tubing i don't know why but a 20-foot stick of this is i don't remember now expensive 250 bucks i think it went up a lot it went it over doubled yeah i was gonna say it's over 100 yeah so we need like two foot of that clean all right get to work only a couple feet get to work thistle i'm on it and we're gonna bend an axle yeah just thinking we gotta bend an axle so it wastes a little bit of tubing maybe a little bit more than two feet but not much [Music] 16 and a half inches so now we're going to put the bend 13 and a half inch long make sure that didn't move how much drop is your axle here i think it's gonna be from the center of the spindle to the bottom of the axle gonna be two and a half inches so it's only gonna be a little bit it doesn't have to be anything but it looks cool looks cool we gotta have it looks cool jim looking cool cool looking cool that's right what we're gonna do breathe in the middle back together so explain real quick um when you're doing tape measures instead of counting using your degree or something like that that's too complicated for me so the whole 55 was built the chassis was built same way every other thing um instead of using degree just tape measure from there to there just find a point and then that way you can match your measurements or know where you left off instead of using degree will there you go okay haphazardly done what are you doing so i'm going to figure out it's all kind of doesn't really matter kind of stuff i'm going to take and make a mark make a mark i kind of got too far over didn't there a little bit so i'll make a dentist over here if that's mark this must be dennis i didn't know what that was i'm just eyeballing we're not building a piano i'm gonna make a new mark that's in the way okay so let's go there and here make sure we don't mistake any of these that's eyeballed very precision okay so if i did that and i want what i want is this line across here is two and a half inches drop that would be the center of the spindle so if i did that and did that [Music] something else i probably should do is line that up straight here so i'm actually seeing that i'm going to mark it jim's off doing something right frank put your frame back in the corner jim's cleaning up are you a cleaner i'm trying to keep us organized so that we can move forward faster very nice efficiently efficiently we want those marks in the center of that spindle which that's pretty close if you ask me you pull that tape out a little bit okay not that much not like that okay so if i hold that right there that's two and three eighths it should be that's perfect i feel like bad chad this is like bad chad level stuff except i should be making it out of square tubing so i'm just going to what i'm going to do is i'm going to say that i'm trying to figure this out as i go that's what he does though that's i'm bad chad i've been watching too much let's just say it's not an insult that's been watching i've been watching too much i'm learning okay so if that's the center of that spindle what we're gonna do is notch that would you verbalize what's happening in your brain because it's the same thing bad chad does know what i'm just eyeballing stuff up i mean it's no no yeah yeah no i know but i'm saying what are you i want you these are these spindles they have zero inclination which means they're straight straight these spindle pins are just it's go kart level junk we're not trying to worry about tire wear and handling and all that so this the kingpins are literally straight up and down 90 degrees to this so i just measured eyeball two and three eighths two and three eighths i know that this line here running across here is two and a half inches from the bottom of this to this line which i want that line approximately in the center of that spindle pin so i will adjust that when i weld it all i'm trying to do is get a place that i can cut so i know this is the center see if you eyeball up from here that's the center right there so we're going to notch this tubing come in like this with a mill and notch it up to here that'll be the center that this line here will be the edge of it i need to put that over here incidentally and then when it when that's knocked out we'll set it all on the table and straighten it open [Music] okay straight up and down let's see i'm gonna put the one two three block against the edge and that whole then i'll run my kingpin boss up against that so we're 90 degrees see how the axle is laying in that groove so all i've got to do is decide on the height of it which it's not going to end up being two and a half inch drop and i'm not gonna change it to make it two and a half what i'm going to do is measure so what is this that's three inches that's the three yeah that's the three right there so if i go to three we can the spindle fit over the top but if it'll hit down here if we got this boss up too high so just to check yeah just check it anyway make sure i'm gonna weld it he can tack it so it's straight but i said could i weld it because it doesn't matter like the 55. he said it does matter it's just my excuse i'm gonna take this off and stick put this all together just make sure it clears show you what i'm talking about so if i go three inches to the top see that allows that so i'm actually because of we checked it i'm gonna squeak that up just a little bit well no i can't go much actually let's just use three inches and that'll clear down here [Music] [Music] okay i welded that which got a little hot cleaning up with acid but it's not the best it's not the worst but it's welded what are you working on frame rails okay i see more bins out more bins more bins that's all good what are you working on i drilled and tapped drilled and tapped the axle mounts axle mounts perfect [Music] i'm just going to keep welding and get better [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] looks like quite a frame rail right there look at that little baby bit it's a pete jake 32 or frame rail um i don't know what that is it's a daj yeah daj that's what we're going to call the dha oh jim oh i don't see pete and jake here i didn't know what that was we were starting our own mini tractor company oh okay so we're gonna make sure [Music] [Applause] so [Music] [Applause] okay so it's got to go over yeah scoot this keep it in that socket there so it gives me something to [Music] i want to just measure to the table four and three eighths make sure that's it's four and a quarter that's what i thought there's a little difference this is twisted it said okay it's not flat like that's not flat though yeah it's not is it this is gonna move hey you gotta go that way i'm just trying to cut you some room big dog scoot that where it's in the marks keep it in the marks keep that flat you can move it some after i get it probably not gonna be hold it can you hold down on that can you hold down in the middle i need to measure that's 16 so it's 15 there so it needs to go out a little bit looks like if it's that's pretty close let's get to see what this looks like it doesn't go out a little bit more [Music] what point are you at i am at the point of no return i was gonna say that i'm just about to say that i'm gonna put an axle in the front and figure out see that's 15 inches that's 15 is perfect but it could be a little straighter yes okay so what i want to do is check this length hold it right there that's 39 and 3 8 that's not right who did that okay well that sucks so we got i'm going to a this one eighth of an inch [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] look at it it's kind of cute it's got a cute little fella it's not neat it is so this is frame is welded now motor is mounting yeah we're gonna make motor mounts so i think we want to set the motor right in the middle which would be over a little bit like that it does not look like the middle but that's because i guess that's well we don't have to set it in the middle let's do where it looks the best right there it does not okay it needs to go to this side that looks better it probably does look better it looks more balanced i feel like the weight's more in the center that way well it's not i feel like it is it doesn't matter okay wide enough it's gonna grip like a nascar nascar a nascar we're just gonna figure out front to back and there's no rule on that except the seat will probably be right over the top of it and if we build depending on how we build our i think we can go forward if we want to do wheelies i imagine we put it back if we want to make it handle what do you want to do i feel like handling we would do more than yeah i think we want to power slide more than wheels yeah do move forward so the frame is pretty much mocked up here welded motor that's where it will be and then working on steering now so i'll go check in with dad kind of hard to figure out what i'm gonna do is i made these spindles out of a chunk of aluminum once but i've got a steering arm on it so i'm just grabbing a piece of half inch by two inch and we're going to make a steering arm that's about where i'm gonna put the hole i think so i'm just gonna weld this on here and it's gonna come out something like this probably like that so i'm just trying to visualize you can't have it too close to the tire so [Music] [Music] so fancy [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Music] it doesn't have bricks yet or a seat so the drift trike or the the barstool cart or whatever it gets called has progressed a little bit since i updated because somebody works on it at random times but we have some of our austrian friends and visiting they're getting ready to go to pri and well i feel like this will be pretty fun we have mike who never wants to be on camera we don't have pvc pipes [Music] i was about to wrap them with tape or something [Music] can you okay um how are you making this work well we don't know who we are okay well we're trying so we're just letting the air out of the tire i'm sliding the bucket on okay we got a little small limb yeah they're tapered so they're not probably not going to work [Music] i'm going to tip it over that way dad was the last one or you were oh mike breaks things yes he broke it broke it this like this is too far yeah it's wider so is it too far on yeah oh it's gonna want to slide out what do you think ollie it's amazing it's amazing when you finally see we're going to see the light here in a little bit yeah yeah i put what did i say 34. no it was 30 something oh sounds scary i'm trying to even that bucket out because the tire can't blow up catching that bucket that's [ __ ] all i can do is blow the bucket up um real quick because the last place i have video of this little drift trike thing yeah he is a um when it was the frame and you've done a lot since then yeah i put the foot pegs on this morning like no you didn't even explain i mean there's nothing because i don't think you recorded when you built the oh yeah the body the searing to this remember that i mean it's almost done just all i gotta do is get the brakes hooked up i forgot to tighten my rotor i had the caliper on here but you know once i get a brake cable we can tighten the brakes so long story short imagine how all this was built with like bins and welds it happened here as well more bins and welds this is that the little cart or scooter thing that i showed you you just cut it up bends and weld so it's not really anything super complicated just lots of bins and welds no it's cake he just did it every once in a while at um night in the evenings so because it didn't take one day yeah it was just a few hours the steering took like half a day you want to leave this off i'm gonna leave it off for now no brakes no brakes they didn't have brakes so imagine you're not like man we die like men so you put the parachute on the back you put your foot down legs to be i think i parked a truck in the way who built this this is the first is this cool activated all good together that must be stupid we need pvc pipes yeah i need something i caught dad falling earlier fishtail he didn't the tires are coming off i forgot it didn't have brakes a little while ago he forgot that too the tires off of it fire bottle yeah fight a bottle not fire water on fire get your beard in there [Music] i don't want to smell your hair okay set her down let's just roll i hope we don't blow the tire up wow seems like such a good idea you may have to get bigger get the big torch get the big fire bottle this was not my idea i think it was honest idea hey i was all over there yeah i have a lot of these ideas i think he thinks we're stupid look look at his face he's serious yeah he's a serious kind of guy [Music] it might just roll along and i'll keep it don't go anywhere that one's good all right so this isn't quite as glorious of an ending as i had planned and intended for this video because i think where you left off was you said it needs pvc pipe governor taking off something and a turbo it's a little underpowered we don't have pvc pipes so we can't do anything about that we don't have a turbo it's under power we're gonna put a torque converter on instead so we're gonna take this clutch off and put a torque converter so have a belt driving and then the sprocket will move over and the chain will be shorter but that'll it's variable speed it's like a transmission so it'll make it go faster and have more power i believe so once the governor's off and the torque converter is on it'll be pretty nice i'm not sure how much faster it needs to go that's very true because remember we changed the front suspension i i took some of the caster out of it i wish i hadn't because when you're going up the road right now if you move a little bit it moves really fast so let's back up because earlier when everybody was here i was trying to recap but there was a lot going on so where it left off in time lapse and like the actual building part of it was at the bottom frame so we didn't get the suspension or the front um whatever steering change we didn't get any of that we didn't get this part it's not really critical to show all of that because it's just bending cutting and all of yeah all of that nonsense so but it didn't have any steering so i cut this off of one of your old scooters i showed them the scooter okay so that came off of there and then i just bent the tube and welded these on but so that's a scooter and then i made this plate i welded this pipe this tube onto the scooter part because the forks used to come out here so this is just a plate that i made and four heim joints and then go to the spindles so it turns really sharp i mean it it'll turn on a dime and it'll also you know because i haven't had time to make a seat i think i'm going to actually make one out of aluminum and i'm going to do kind of like a bomber seat maybe with holes in it but right now it'll slide you right off the seat and off on the ground i haven't done it that is not true i have video oh i flipped it oh yeah he flips but i haven't slid off of it but it will slide you off because it turns fast so we're waiting on a brake lever and then i'll put the master cylinder on which is a mechanical master cylinder so that'll mount right there yeah so then we'll once we get all the seat made we'll tear it down and paint it so anticipate more to come with it but um yeah so the rest of the build was literally just bending tube tube and welding and the thing is is there was not a lot of precise detail on this which was kind of nice not that it wasn't it was a haphazard youtube yeah i'm just saying it wasn't like it was like thinking out of thought process because i'm sure people wonder what the thought process the blueprint the this that that was it was well that looks good if it looked like a what do you call this thing i called it the other night a seat racer or something because it's not a bar stool people pointed that out and it's like okay i'm not that serious about it it's i have a bar stool that i bought for it but rather than sitting three feet off the ground so i could really flip off of it yeah i decided to build a seat low to the ground low center grip it's not a bar stool it's a seat racer it's a thing yeah but so anything that looked like a seat racer we made it and put it on there and what is a seat racer don't know that this is a new trim sheet racer it's a seat racer so anyways that's that for now there'll be more to come with it when um there's more to come with it whenever that time is so we get some pvc a torque converter and a seat made we'll rip it up rip it up so anyways hang on i'm gonna flip this around that is it for now oh you signed too early oh all right well cancel that hold place no peace yet hold please so uh anyways that is it for now this is wrapping this up we are actually about to pull out of this shop the 55 oh there's our austrian friends right there tom and ali sweden rock and i rolling know what it says i speak i speak fluent austrian yeah questionable golden tree and rock and rolling i don't know what he's saying hopefully it's not bad all right so uh anyways uh truck and trailer loaded up there we're getting ready to head to sema and no not sema we just got back from sema we're getting ready to head to pri we're leaving in the morning to head to indianapolis for pri that's where we're headed so that's the plan but that's it for now so as always you guys want to sign off yeah you guys come to come sign off sign off in austrian i always say be happy go fast stay pretty whatever that is can you does that translate what you're saying be happy go fast stay pretty yeah yeah stay happy go fast you're pretty yeah yeah together together in harmony please google fun happy go fast stay pretty in russian in harmony and austrian and harmony together together on the count of three in the austrian home okay we should say like um go fast be happy stay he said that wrong oops then that's the translation which doesn't fit there's no pretty in austrian yeah kind of is there fast yeah so just make something make something up nobody will know but do it you'll sit together we want to hear it i don't know what he okay you say something and you say something and then we'll call it good okay just random on the count of three go one one two three go see ya bye that was like hungarian okay we tried we don't perform under pressure we tried we don't perform on the pressure he copied me whatever he didn't even say it in austria i know that was very okay i don't know it sounded like he was choking up a hair ball tonight okay be happy go fast day pretty i will see you guys next time

Channel: Riding With Alex Taylor

Views: 142,443

Keywords: Barstool Racer, Seat Racer, Predator engine, harbor freight, Barstool cart

Id: ra0qscHevTA

Length: 36min 52sec (2212 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 15 2021