***DISCLAIMER***

THIS IS FOR MOCKING PURPOSES ONLY. FOR NOW IT WILL NEVER BE DRIVEN. THANKS.

Started this yesterday. Its going to have a Lifan 138 cc 10hp engine and 4 spd tranny.

yesterday's work.

















today's work. started the front spindles.





when everything is completed it will be powder coated, along with the wheels. which will be on different tires too. should be fun.

comments welcome, negative or postivie, i don't care either way. it's just for fun.


Modified by honduh_head at 4:44 AM 8/8/2008

 

Nice you have a plan on paper or you winging it?

 

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i have a couple sets of blue prints that i am going off of...but i'm altering them slightly to allow for my heftyness and the fact that i may want to put a much larger motor in it later on down the road

 

It's going to accelerate like crap with those big heavy wheels and tires.

 

nice in for the build

 

I say it's going to break rather quickly. Not only are your joints horribly made for a load bearing structure but you're grinding the damn weld off. Just my opinion though.

 

You shouldn't have ground your welds down.

 

more pics from today. spindles are about 99.9% complete as well as the steering.

 

thanks for all the comments guys, i'll keep it all in mind....

ps... THAT KID, those aren't the tires i'm gonna use.

 

Is that seriously how your going to steer it with those little washers welded to that rod?

 

I'm liking what I'm seeing so far, so long as you do not intend on going very fast with it. Please tell me that you are going to make the spindles a little more beefy! I would be scared to see what happens when you hit a sizable bump with the current setup.

I built a loading dock cart with similar materials, but my spindle design was much different. I'll post pictures later on and they might help you out. Might even save your life!

 

ur guna have to put some kinda bushing or beringin the wheels cus i had a go cart like it back in the day and going about 15mph it wore the wheels out in like a mounth

 

That steering looks worse than my old pedal cart I had when I was a kid. How are you going to turn when the whole thing is solid. You'd need heim joints or uniballs, etc on the steering components. Probably gonna bend or break the washers off on the first corner.

 

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yaaaaa...i'm realizing that now... i was just tryin something, and well it obviously doesn't work so back to "the drawing board" lol. i just need to go to the local hardware store and find some stuff.

 

beast. Lifan 138cc

 

Yikes.

 

That is HAGGARD

 

possible candidate for worst fabrication thread??

 

there may have been many missed steps and alot of building with little to no design for stregth taken into account. but non the less it really isn't that bad. i have seen way worse...

 

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lol but the solid steering linkage is some pretty bad fabrication

 

Is it just me, or does the steering shaft look completely welded to the frame?

 

it looks to me like those tubes are telescoping and the actual steering shaft fits inside of the piece that is welded to the frame and the washer keeps the steering shaft from bottoming out inside of the piece that's welded to the frame.

 

^^^ So, if you yank on the wheel, the whole thing would come up! SWEEEET!

 

You're taking a few beatings on some of the design. You were actually VERY CLOSE to what needed to be done. It's just metal, it can be ground off and done again. On important weld joints, I still might mock up something similar once in a while and do some test welding before I get right into it. Never be intimidated by steel. And so far, I'd say you're not. You're having a good time, work on that, but be safe and don't be afraid to ask for advice. likely you don't know any of these people on here so who cares if they don't like your stuff. You're only goal should be to improve and make stuff that makes you happy. Don't be afraid to ask questions.

I'm going to offer up a fun and easy way to make a spindle. I've done this a lot on various small projects and it always works fine.

Here is what you are trying to make. See how close you were.


To oversimplify it. What you have is a 5/8 axle, it's nothing more than a good bolt. It's welded right to your spindle. The spindle slides with a nice tight tolerance over the 5/8 bolt that is your king pin. Then weld the appropriate brackets to hold your king pin. Just look at the pic, it will guide you.

You've already done similar work, this is gravy stuff.

Onlinemetals sells good metal for that kind of tolerance work. If you want to be really cool, Azusa sells a nice little nylon bushing to put in your spindle.


Modified by vectorsolid at 11:52 PM 8/11/2008

 

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Interesting advice, considering you have no idea what the goal of the project is. It's what he has, and part of his build and ride height appears to have been established with what he has.

I've been over 80mph with those same wheels and tires.