Homemade Wooden Go Kart Build | NO WELDING or Expensive Power Tools!

[Music] what's up guys in this video we're going way back for way of these before we got a welder we're going back to hammers drills saws so this is basically an honor for a hundred thousand subscribers we're going back to where we began with just making a wooden go-kart no welding required no major power tools so let's get started as you can see we had a ton of fun making that cart it was just super easy fun to take out it really got to start it into karting and it really just taught us how to make stuff and how to build and drive the go-karts now I'm gonna show you guys what you need to get to build your very own wooden no welding go-kart first thing you're gonna need a reel some tires you got all ours as a set already mounted and everything and then one of your wheels is gonna need to be a drive wheel so we got a kit from go power sports that comes with everything you'll need and all the links to everything we bought for this cart will be in the description below how this thing we got a predator 212 engine from Harbor Freight if you have the coupon it's only 99 dollars so it's a killer deal if not you have to pick anything else off Craigslist a bunch of pressure washer engines anything with a horizontal shaft and a key wish should work so you can sit in one place and you're not just always going for it you'll need a clutch so we just decided to use 40 chain and we got a for a chain clutch right here and then to mount all this stuff you'll need a ton of hard work so we'll have just a list of everything you can pause the video if you need to to look at everything for the frame we got 2 by 6 wood and a piece of plywood on top for your for the seat and for the backrest and since the wood will be strong enough to hold the wheels and tires and drivetrain we're gonna use something that resembles stop sign material to hold all our wheels and put the bolts through and you can use any type of thin walled square tubing and drill holes in it I mean use whatever's easiest for you finally you need handlebars a bra and brake cable and two grips now you know everything you'll need let's good start so the first thing you're gonna want to do is lay out of your car you're going to want to base it around the plywood so the biggest thing that's gonna vary for people is how much of legroom you're gonna have so basically this is all about sitting in a place that's comfortable for you to reach full lock to full lock with your feet from there you're gonna know where the end of the pieces of the plywood is so you're going to want to mark your wood and cut it we decided around up and make our frame six feet long that way it's gonna be basically just we have eighteen feet of wood so that we get really easy just cut it into three sections now what we need to do is you can line up the first two by six we cut with the end of the plywood and then mark these two to fit only on the plywood section funny how we use a square that measure the stuff up yeah because the screws are barely long enough to go through all layers of the wood we're drilling from the bottom up that way kind of just holds everything in the place so the main goal here is you want to cut up these two pieces of wood all the way against the side of the plywood and then you want this one to be right in the center [Applause] [Music] okay so we got all the streets on the top and now some working student we're doing is basically you're gonna want to cut your main steering 2x4 so it's basically the same width as the rear so it doesn't look off-centered or anything like that so we drilled a hole right in the middle and it's basically good you're gonna want a place that looks pretty good it just kind of it really just depends on how you want the car to look you can put it anywhere you want all right so on the first rendition of this car we had a lot of problems with friction between these two two piece of wood so what we're doing is basically at any point the center bolt contacts anything that's not the bolt you're gonna want to run two washers that way it just kind of it's metal on metal contact and it has a lot less friction than just two straight with the wood so this all just goes through like so I'm all the bandsaw just anything else definitely better but we're just trying to use the most basic thing we have so the hacksaw okay deaf to clean is good have a little work hey the good news is it's strictly structural yes so all it really does is just wear what you're gonna do is you're gonna drill two holes one here and one here and then you can bolt it up and then you'll put two by two and then you can run your 5/16 bolt right through this middle hole right here besides your bullets through and your other side and then we recommend using locknuts for everything on the first rendition we basically just like ended up replacing every bolt with lock nuts anyways you would think that cuz it's wood it wouldn't rattle as much but it actually like everything kind of just got loose over time I think it's because the wood stretches and stuff so just keep that in mind I'd use lock nuts you're gonna want to invest in a nice 5/8 drill bit because that's the size bullets we'd recommend using through these the metal here so when you're drilling through Mellish pipe always protect your eyes [Music] is sliding in your bowl fits really well because we use the drill bit that's pretty much perfect size for it then in our case our room kind of just slides on and fits perfectly so if it doesn't fit and you space it out you can definitely stack a bunch of washers and stuff but keep in mind you're probably gonna have to buy a bigger bolt but if you stick with these rims and tires and blocks these are like inch by inch square blocks and these tires you'll be just fine alright our seat is done just to cut two by fours we've got some 90 degree angle brackets on the back loading them up keep them sturdy it's plenty strong and then we're gonna do two pieces of bolstering so you don't slide off the sides when you go around the corner yeah we might pull Recaro out of business of this bad boy oh yeah and you can really do this however you want this is just how we're doing it you have creative freedom you can angle the seat you could put a seat you already have on there and just bolt it down so go crazy with it oh [Applause] [Music] oh oh man these are way taller tires a monster truck look at that turn though yeah we're gonna be up in here take a seat I mean the front pole isn't tightening so steering's a little bit more loose range back from the good old days good steering yeah I mean hey it's totally functional it's really hard to do this any other way with tie rods and all that stuff it's a lot cheaper to do this way so for first project especially made out of wood this is how I recommend doing in this is how we did do it okay so we just finished up the front pieces and now we did was we flip the frame over so you get a look at where we want our back our back wheels really aesthetically we kind of want it as far back as we can go without being over hanging off the back and then this way when we mount our engine on the other side we're gonna have some room to slide the holes forward and backwards before we hit this piece so I'm gonna mount this and then I'll see you guys again when we're doing the engine side because that's the important side all right yes so we got the last wheel on and then just something to note see I cut a little piece of pipe that fits perfectly over the bolt you can either do that and use a hacksaw or if you don't want to buy any of that material you're gonna stack a bunch of washers it is cheaper to put pot use pipe though I'll include that in hardware I guess and now the drive wheel we're just mocking up then you little pieces of stuff sign yep okay so we just got a little piece of wood put a kind of long bolt through it and that was our brake mount it's super simple and then we'll have the cable going from the top pulling it tight all right so we got a roller next steps power plan time to bolt the engine up couple critical airs made on the first rendition of this cart was our chain was like six feet long and with 35 chain it was like I mean it was just way too long you kept throwing the chain all the time especially because the wood flexed and all that so my advice to you is make the chain as short as possible and try to have as much adjustment as you can to get the chain pretty tight so what you're gonna do is good rule of thumb you can just get a straight edge put it right up against your sprocket and then that'll help you decide whether your sprockets right online you want the clutch sprocket in the sprocket back here to be aligned as possible then you want your interesting straight with the frame and then we can we'll mark these holes drill them out and then we'll see how far forward and how far back we can drill we can widen them without hitting so idea this is pretty simple you just kind of drill one hole a little bit above the other one I know what you're gonna do is you wanna just keep going through and just try to bore out until you till it's only wood so it should be cheaper that's the prettiest I don't work now we're laying out our chain but an issue we have is the chains a little bit too long so we're gonna go through what you need to know Trent we're not going to go super in-depth there's plenty of other videos about it but basically you want the two inside ends so you want both ends to kind of look like this that way you can fit a master link through it so you kind of line it up to where it's semi loose so where you can slide the engine for it and tighten it you're gonna mark the pin that's on it and then you can pull your chin out okay so if you all have a chain breaker that'd be ideal obviously but we're back to breaking chain the old-fashioned way so what I usually first do is hit the little parts sticking out a little bit if that down flat with a hammer first that kind of loosens it up a bit then after that you'll take a punch stick it down where the hole is and there and there you go the chain is free okay so we got the chain on and we just made our handlebar mounts so with this I mean since it's just two cables you can do whatever you want any design you like however you want it but that's what we chose that's pretty strong we will add a little bit of reinforcement after this we're gonna press on all right so this is kind of gives you an idea of how the brakes will be set up we have to move the block up there they can really go anywhere yeah now that's us to do this test drive this bad boy [Music] thank you good all day we're tightening the chain again hopefully it doesn't loosen or else we have some sort of flaw in our design but I just think it wasn't tight enough to begin with now we're really tight so I don't know trial and error is part of the deal they'll break free right you pretty solid yeah and this thing smells like governor in it and all that so she's it's not gonna be a speed dating or anything but you could upgrade it sure [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] not breaking any speed records but it's a lot of fun guys does she feel like a first kart we're just trying to learn how to drive something and all that it's real fun [Applause] you're saying this thing steers really well actually it's really smooth on concrete really for some reason it's kind of pushing me through the corners like we might have to figure out the idol or maybe the throttle cable is doing something weird but other than that like pretty zippy it's not like a speed demon but it's definitely fun yeah for something you can build yourself for a reasonable price out of wood you know it goes pretty good it's the best you can get yeah I I definitely recommend it for a first project for sure you know we started so exactly look how we turn down [Applause] [Music] not really fun I think it's faster than mayhem actually really I'm really not used to foots do you know it's kind of it's it's new yeah but yeah it's super fun I mean I definitely recommend it [Music] [Music] guys thanks for watching this is a super fun project a great starter build fairly cheap really fun and you can really get your hands dirty who is not having to buy a bunch of expensive tools or anything like that I'm that being said make sure to LIKE this video and subscribe if you haven't already shout out to our sponsors go power sports everything we used except for the wood is from go power sports that's awesome you can build the starter cart just from their parts and stay tuned if you want to see some little mods to this thing and we'll see you next time [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]

Channel: Build Break Repeat

Views: 1,205,859

Keywords: go kart, go cart, gokart, gocart, v8, drift, wooden go kart, wood kart, pallete kart, diy go kart, go power sports, project, summer, how to, diy, tools, garage project, blueprints, go-kart, go-cart, rotary, predator 212, clutch, chain, car, junkyard, engineering, education

Id: E81VUJAx-W8

Length: 19min 54sec (1194 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 09 2019