Eric. You're a very talented woodworker for one of such young years. Only matched by your generosity in providing the fruits of your efforts to the community for free. Thank you.
When I was a little kid in the early seventies, my neighbor had 3 teenage boys and they built a wooden go cart… it took all three to run it ! One was steering with 2 ropes, one was applying the throttle at the motor, and the last boy was pretty much hanging on and helping to stop with his feet😂 like Flintstone style!!! These guys were my heroes growing up…
@@SirLeDoux Yep, we built a 'gambo' (gravity push cart with 'pram' = 'baby buggy' wheels) using a bicycle crank with pedal and chain for steering. (seemed like a good idea) Only thing was, with our 10-11 yr old 'engineering', we didn't realise it steered backwards (left was right and right was left), until, Andrew ended up under the front of an MG (luckily, driver saw what was going on and stopped, even though Andrew couldn't) no damage to anyone but we did go somewhere 'safer' as driver was really pissed at us about what 'could' have happened
Hey Eric! My dad and I are currently building this wooden go kart. We came across your video and that inspired us to build it! We will send you a picture when its finished!
I searched through soooo many comments to see if anyone asked the cost of the build. I mainly saw a lot of granddads cheering you on. Great to see BUT can you tell me a rough materials cost (excluding tools)?
As a grandpa I can't begin to tell you how impressed I am of not only your build but of your video production as well! Please do a video of the stage I/II engine upgrade!
It’s great to see a disciplined energetic young man with constructive interests and an all American work ethic. You provide hope for our future! Keep it up.
This is next level! I had mine in the late 70s. It was wooden, with "Big Wheel" wheels in the back, shopping cart wheels in the front, steered by a rope, and a wooden stick on the side for the brake. The motor was a friend pushing. LOL
Nice work, Eric! My dad made me a go cart back in the ‘60s and all we had for steering was a set of vice grips in the steering rod! It had an old Clinton engine driven by a rubber accessory belt. Engine was started by wrapping a rope with a handle wrapped around the flywheel pulley (the older folks will know!). Subscribed!
When my brother and I broke the throttle cable on our go cart one of us stood/rode on the back and gave it gas while the other drove it down the street WOT
my friend john had one it was awesome and it was old and a piece of poop but fun we took it to a school playground once thinking we could make some money and the first idiot that drove it slammed into a wall and knocked himself out, it was hilarious we gave him is money back and got the hell out of there. you could not get away with that kinda of stuff these days god i miss those days. the thing is that the first thing we did was all laughed at the guy then made sure he was ok and not try to sue us. i mean he was our age we told him how he was ok but at the last minute after the 3 laps he biffed it.
My dad and I built my wood go kart in 1980, it was based on my dad's wood go kart that he and his dad built in the 50's. We did the entire steering with angle iron and u-bolts, amazed to this day that it held up. We even built the "clutch" out of pulleys, angle iron and a tension belt. Engine was free off of an old piece of farm equipment, it had dried corn in the flywheel. It taught how me to not be afraid to work on cars or anything technical.
Young Man, totally astonished at your pursuit of excellence, I imagine there is a good teacher/ mentor in the wings and, probably a set of very proud parents. 👍👍
Nice job young man. Had many thoughts from my foot steered, dumpster sourced machine before I could drive ('77) that put my sister into the blackberry patch, then later as the SAE Baja lead at Oregon State ('86) that the team drove around campus before heading to SanLuis, and onto design work on the original 777. Thank you for sharing your work. May God use you for his glory and your parents praised.
I grew up in a small town in the 1960s. We built go-carts.. That is nothing but a good time and learning experience for kids. Congrats on your build. better than anything we built.
@@EricLindberg .. I am in Lakewood CA, but I grew up in Beulah MI and lived there 1960 to 1986. Great place to grow up. First time seeing your channel.. good stuff.
Excellent, wonderful implementation and video! With the rear wheels so far out, I'd move the pillow blocks to the outside of the frame (swap the angle brackets) to lesson angular stress on the axle itself.
That's a nice Kart! Especially the steering post. Not only do you posses great woodworking skills, your presentation and narration were perfect. Congrats!
Eric, for your own safety and the safety of the people that will follow along, ALWAYS clamp your material to the table when using a drill press. At the very least, tighten a nut and bolt in one of the table slots to be used as a stop/bumper for the part. If the drill grabs that plate and turns it into a helicopter, kiss a finger tip or two Bye-Bye.
That's how I lost a bit of the top of my finger. Was using the meat pliers to hold a piece of sheet metal and it caught. Now I make sure to use regular pliers.
Imagine trying to drill pin holes in the handle of a freshly forged knife… (this is why I refused to get more than a hobby drill press, I don’t trust myself with a real one) Also once I was drilling a terminal for a battery cable for a motorcycle(on a full size drill press) and it got stuck and wound me up in the cord/bit. If it hadn’t have been an old 1/2hp drill that I could overpower I probably would have a different shaped wrist
New sub because I looked back into your video content. I have been a lifelong woodworker. You inspire me to build a go art of my own. You also give me hope for your generation. We hear a lot of negative, you prove it ain’t so.
At 15:00 when you smoked the drill bit, that could have been avoided. drill in an inch then pull the bit up which will clear the chips and allow the bit to run cooler.
The attention to detail is awesome. Since you clearly have the skills for woodworking and mechanics, perhaps a future project would be to build something like a vintage Jeep body type go kart.
Great job my friend.. I use to make them when I was around 10-12 yrs. old, but had to motor, just a person pushing...Lol... Got my first "REAL" live axel go Kart at around 15 & had a lot of fun at night with couple friends having the Po-lice trying to catch us running up and down the streets...Lol.. it was so much fun... I'm 71 now and have a Great Manco Dingo with a 212 I built myself on it.. Have great fun on it & can now enjoy a Fast engine doing all the pushing...Lol... Top speed so far has been 68 MPH. Geared it for this speed as that's fast enough to really have fun but get hurt bad (or even die) if I were to have a Bad accident... Again, that's for your video. It gives young & older people that still like to go outside & have Fun something to do.. Much Love my Brother...
Nice work, man!! Its cool you make the project plans available for folks who may like to create someting like this with their family members, or just plain tinkering. You juice it up, you might want to consider adding some safety gear. Nice to see a young man like yourself doing something with his talents. Good luck to you, Eric!
Some very smart tips...instead of just relying on measurements alone...best to put in position and mark...you can tell this fine young man has done this before.Very simple,but helpful tips for the beginner...for any kind of woodworking.I really love this simple....cheap...but effective design.
Super Nice Build Erick Very Well Done 😍 I am a Tomboy and when We Were going to JR High The Kids would Take a 20" Sting Ray Bicycle and take a front rim and take out the spokes from it and smash it thinner and weld it to the rear rim for a pulley we would remove the Pedal's and the center support and bolt on a 3/4" Birch plywood for the engine mount . we would use a 2hp Briggs and Stratton engine with a variable belt clutch I still remember that we used a GATES 64" Green Stripe V Belt we used a handle grip 3 speed shifter for the twist throttle and we only had front brakes and soul brakes from your shoes 😦 LOL I Put a Bicycle Speedometer on it and it would go 40 MPH level - Up Hill - Down Hill - 40 MPH 😊 The COPS would Always Chase me But They Could Not Catch Me 😝 Because I Knew which yards I could Cut Through and Get Away From Them 🤪 Retired Female Equipment Mechanic of over 50 Years Keep up the Great Work Chellie
Nice that you pointed out that a full factory set of tools not required. But….that’s an impressive and expensive workshop! Being a Brit my workshop is a shed in the garden, but it does all I need.
My father made me a wooden go-kart in the 1960s.. I still remember watching him build it... the Sheep was made out of a wooden milk crate the two-by-fours was the chassis and to steer the go-kart a clothesline was mounted to the front axle.. my father drilled a hole to put a carriage Bolt so you can steer the go-kart and the wheels were from baby carriages.. and that was it and that my father used to push me up and down the block..
Very cool. My dad made me a soapbox derby type go cart, no engine just push it down a hill and race another cart! Great childhood memories right there. Awesome build.
Once he sells it it becomes a lawsuit when a kid gets hurt on it. Nothing with a motor should be made of wood. Not everyone that would buy it can build it like he did which wi cause issues
@@mikecolwell5387 Yeah, I built a motorized bike with a 79cc predator and I know how sketchy that is. I would NEVER try something like this made of wood and with a powerful 212cc engine.
What an amazing person you are Eric to produce these excellent plans for free. I don't doubt though that people would want to pay you something if you have a Paypal or Patreon account.
Nice looking project, but you still have a lot to learn "grasshopper". LOL At least for anything load bearing you should make sure you are using gr_8 bolts. EG: front "king pins", any bolts in the front steer assembly, bolts securing the pillow blocks for the rear axle. A catastrophic failure at any of those points could/would cause a hard crash. 40 mph may not sound fast, but tossing you off would give you new perspective on that. Nice job, good luck!! --gary
Overkill for this application. If it were going over terrain, I'd agree, but pavement isn't going to stress these bolts anywhere near the breaking point.
54:20 I would strongly advise moving the top suspension location bar rearwards to provide some castor angle, which will greatly help steering stability as this geometry will add a self-centering force.
I mean, is stability really something one is looking for in something like this? Definitely a concern with a car whose mass could EASILY rip the wheel out of your hands with bad geometry, but I can't imagine this managing to apply that much force to the driver outside of already being in the middle of crashing.
@@Nevir202 What are you talking about? All cars have positive caster angle. Think of force feedback steering wheel in a game constantly trying to move it to the center. This is positive caster angle and it also adds stability. An example of negative caster angle is a shopping cart. Positive caster angle makes it so we don't have to recenter the steering wheel and hold it there. The angle makes it self centering among other perks.
@@bluecar5556 And your argument here is what? You aren't supposed to have your hands off the wheel anyway, especially when driving the way one drives a go kart so self centering is irrelevant when you are going to be manually pointing it where you want it to go. You might need to worry about wobble if it was something fast, but it's not.
*My Dad was a master woodworker that build a furniture empire of 200 employee's in LA, California from 1966 to 2012. Wood was not my love but I worked from him every summer since I was 12 years old. At 20 years old I built a 2800 Square foot home for me and my wife. One thing my Dad would REALLY drill into my brain was using GLUE! He would go as for as to say "Nail's and screws are only there to hold the wood together while the GLUE DRYS!" He was a GLUE fanatic and he was right! The reputation of his furniture was legendary among Hollywood legends like Micheal Jackson, Will Smith, James Cameron and Steve Spielberg to name just a few of his customers.*
replace 2 of those washers from each side for 2 thrust needle roller bearings, one on top and one on the bottom for each wheel of each wheel spindle for better steering. Also, 8 washers is just wild, just saw some steel tubing to act as standoffs instead.
Good videography and editing, nice build. One thing I would caution, don't hand hold metal pieces when using a drill press. Always clamp pieces so they can't swing around and injure you. Wood pieces are relatively safe to hand hold, but metal pieces can catch while drilling and really mess up your day!
I loved that you left in the part about the chain cut too short…. Because we have all been there! Pretty much any project you take on (even the straightforward ones) often have this kind of ‘oh crap’ moment. This makes your video much more realistic. Excellent work though, seriously on another level!
Nice project with assisted welding to the steering tie rod and engine riser plate. With that said, drilling metal pieces on the drill press and holding those pieces with your fingers without using a drill vise is going to get you in big trouble. You have tons of expensive nice tools, jointer/plainer, that the average person will not have so spend a few bucks at Harbor Freight and purchase a simple drill vise. It will save you an expensive trip to the ER!!!
Great job Eric on the go cart. Very cool. Will you add any fabrication to the go cart like making it look like a race car or something similar? 😃 Really like the camera angles on showing off the finished product. Professional looking video.
Thank you Uncle Pat! I probably won’t add anything else to the go kart because I like showing off the wood. I’ll have to show you the stabilizer I got to film some of the shots. It’s got a lot of cool features.
Excellent build and video. However, I think you'll find that wooden vehicles can have failures in the joints unless certain care is taken to prevent joint flexing. God knows Glued and Screwed is time-proven joinery, but such joints can fail in tension. Be careful and be aware of your joints over time, especially where fasteners go into the end grain. This is why early wooden aircraft are all heavily cable braced and triangulated.
@@evanmarshall597, for a fixed piece like a cabinet or furniture I would completely agree. But the downside is that the screws would then be going the opposite direction and you'd be limited in the length you could use to the thickness of the receiving piece. Of the few actual wooden vehicles I've seen, besides aircraft where weight is a concern, the preferred fastener system seemed to be carriage bolts into captive nuts, _or_ through bolts/rods going all the way through a cross member to the other side. The latter being used in heavy cargo wagons.
Love your work, but boy oh boy does it make my head ache to see someone working in Imperial in 2023 - all this 'eleven seventeenths of an inch' nonsense. You mentioned 'weird measurements' early on - there's no such thing as a 'weird measurement' in Metric, because there's only one standard to follow. It's easier to calculate in your head, or on a calculator. Trust, learn it brother - you're still young enough to adapt and you'll make your life so much easier.
Eric I was just watching a video on smartwatch repairs and have absolutely no idea why TH-cam automatically led me to your video afterwards. That being said, I watched the entire 56 minutes of your project and am seriously impressed with your work. It's very likeable that you also point out the mistakes you made and make no secret of them! And it is really cool that your Go Kart works so well in the end! Congratulations on your awesome project and good luck with your channel and your upcoming adventures! Best regards from Switzerland!
I built one when I was 12, no engine, used gravity to get speed! big ball bearings for wheels, front axle made with 2 by 4 and did the steering with my feet, we can ride it 2 or 3 kids, lots of road rash but we had fun. Thank you, good video!
Great build. You smoked that drill bit because you didn't pull it out every inch or two to clear the chips. They just built up and with no place to go, the friction built up quick. Just remove the chips as you go and it'll last for years...
very good how-to video. Back in my day, I'm 75, we called them Mic-Rods , wood farm and body, The first of them were in Upstate NY, All the Mic Rods were built according to a set standard. we were 7 to 12 years of age. Of course today, everything is high tech. and of course I don't follow it. My Neighbor, his father was who was all in to it, built it, and pretty much just slam dunked his kid in behind the steering wheel... It was more fun to ride on the side streets............. The Lord Bless you and yours Eric....
I built a wood go cart in 1943, I was 8. The body was a 1x12 shaped like an ironing board. I was given 4 10 inch wagon wheels (got run over by and truck) the steering wheel came off a spoked baby buggy. the steering shaft was a shovel handle and rope was wound around it to control the front axle (2x4) with a metal rod axle and a bolt for center pivot. We had some tin which came off the roofs of the deserted buildings in Austin NV. It was long enough for two and my buddy and I would start high on the canyon side hill and make a couple of high speed turns before hitting highway 50, through town and then stop at the mill below town. Must have been over a mile, maybe more. We made the runs until the rubber wore out and then we ran some on just the metal. Nothing was replaceable that had rubber or metal during WW2 Great fun.
Great project. Built one back in 1973 with my buddy growing up. It kept us busy all summer! Your steering column is way better than what we did. Going to have to do a version of yours with my grandson when he is a little older. Now, about the engine....How about a two stroke...industrial chainsaw engine? I will figure it out.😊 It'll be a ripper!
This reminds me of a mostly wooden go-kart our dad built for us when we were kids. It had a electric motor and a pulley setup to control the speed with a foot operated pedal. He also managed to cobble together a pretty good resemblance of a Model A Body using sheet metal from an old barbecue grill.
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Eric. You're a very talented woodworker for one of such young years. Only matched by your generosity in providing the fruits of your efforts to the community for free. Thank you.
Thank you!
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When I was a little kid in the early seventies, my neighbor had 3 teenage boys and they built a wooden go cart… it took all three to run it ! One was steering with 2 ropes, one was applying the throttle at the motor, and the last boy was pretty much hanging on and helping to stop with his feet😂 like Flintstone style!!! These guys were my heroes growing up…
Ohh the 1970’s were a glorious time to be alive!
@@SirLeDoux Yep, we built a 'gambo' (gravity push cart with 'pram' = 'baby buggy' wheels) using a bicycle crank with pedal and chain for steering. (seemed like a good idea)
Only thing was, with our 10-11 yr old 'engineering', we didn't realise it steered backwards (left was right and right was left), until, Andrew ended up under the front of an MG (luckily, driver saw what was going on and stopped, even though Andrew couldn't) no damage to anyone but we did go somewhere 'safer' as driver was really pissed at us about what 'could' have happened
@@SirLeDoux I regret being born in 1976. I just missed it... dangit!!!
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What a quality build. The accuracy and neatness as well as the calmness while doing the work is worth a praise. Great job!
Thank you very much!
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@@PeetNutit’s from a lawn mower
@@AlazygemI don’t think it is because lawnmowers use horizontal engines
Hey Eric! My dad and I are currently building this wooden go kart. We came across your video and that inspired us to build it! We will send you a picture when its finished!
I searched through soooo many comments to see if anyone asked the cost of the build. I mainly saw a lot of granddads cheering you on. Great to see BUT can you tell me a rough materials cost (excluding tools)?
As a grandpa I can't begin to tell you how impressed I am of not only your build but of your video production as well! Please do a video of the stage I/II engine upgrade!
It’s great to see a disciplined energetic young man with constructive interests and an all American work ethic. You provide hope for our future! Keep it up.
CB .............I can't believe he did it outside and an unairconditioned garage ........this old man sees an outdoor kid ????
lmfao i do that working in the sun and outside is calming
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Excellent job
Beautiful
This is next level! I had mine in the late 70s. It was wooden, with "Big Wheel" wheels in the back, shopping cart wheels in the front, steered by a rope, and a wooden stick on the side for the brake. The motor was a friend pushing. LOL
Yep, I remember back in the 70's making one of these. Great Fun!
Just outstanding,You did a great job on this.I loved watching you build this unit.Have a great day.
Nice work, Eric! My dad made me a go cart back in the ‘60s and all we had for steering was a set of vice grips in the steering rod! It had an old Clinton engine driven by a rubber accessory belt. Engine was started by wrapping a rope with a handle wrapped around the flywheel pulley (the older folks will know!). Subscribed!
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Lol. Ours didn’t have brakes. We slowed down and dad caught us. Lol. Fun times!
When my brother and I broke the throttle cable on our go cart one of us stood/rode on the back and gave it gas while the other drove it down the street WOT
my friend john had one it was awesome and it was old and a piece of poop but fun we took it to a school playground once thinking we could make some money and the first idiot that drove it slammed into a wall and knocked himself out, it was hilarious we gave him is money back and got the hell out of there. you could not get away with that kinda of stuff these days god i miss those days. the thing is that the first thing we did was all laughed at the guy then made sure he was ok and not try to sue us. i mean he was our age we told him how he was ok but at the last minute after the 3 laps he biffed it.
That sound interesting. How long until it crashed?
Erik…. That was impressive!!! I like how you present and explain what and how to do the build… you keep it up …!!!! You’re parents raised you well!!!!
Erick, I was very impressed with the build. Your work area is also clean and neat, as were your tools. Good job man. Have fun with that cart.
Thank you!
Hey, Nice Job!! Instead of filling the gap with washer in the front wheels, I added a spring. it gave me a little suspension!!
My dad and I built my wood go kart in 1980, it was based on my dad's wood go kart that he and his dad built in the 50's. We did the entire steering with angle iron and u-bolts, amazed to this day that it held up. We even built the "clutch" out of pulleys, angle iron and a tension belt. Engine was free off of an old piece of farm equipment, it had dried corn in the flywheel.
It taught how me to not be afraid to work on cars or anything technical.
Sounds like you guys had a fun time working on it together. Thank you for sharing!
@@EricLindberg We did, it was probably my best childhood memory. Hoping lots of kids get inspired by your video, it's a great design.
I want to see how the welded wood gokart would work.
Young Man, totally astonished at your pursuit of excellence, I imagine there is a good teacher/ mentor in the wings and, probably a set of very proud parents. 👍👍
Wow Eric! What a fantastic build! Takes me back to being a kid and working on my mini-bike with my dad. Looks like a really fun ride!
Thank you Steve! Hope you’re doing well. I’ve had a lot of fun riding it so far!
Jesus loves you! He did die on the cross for us and he did come back to life in 3 days by God! Trust in him + Repent of sins✝️❤️ John 3:16
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Nice job young man. Had many thoughts from my foot steered, dumpster sourced machine before I could drive ('77) that put my sister into the blackberry patch, then later as the SAE Baja lead at Oregon State ('86) that the team drove around campus before heading to SanLuis, and onto design work on the original 777.
Thank you for sharing your work. May God use you for his glory and your parents praised.
I grew up in a small town in the 1960s. We built go-carts.. That is nothing but a good time and learning experience for kids.
Congrats on your build. better than anything we built.
Haha thank you and I couldn’t agree more, it’s a fun learning experience.
@@EricLindberg .. I am in Lakewood CA, but I grew up in Beulah MI and lived there 1960 to 1986. Great place to grow up. First time seeing your channel.. good stuff.
Thank you!
Excellent, wonderful implementation and video! With the rear wheels so far out, I'd move the pillow blocks to the outside of the frame (swap the angle brackets) to lesson angular stress on the axle itself.
Fun to watch you build this project. It brought back memories. I built minibikes and a gocart when I was a youth.
One of the best videos I have seen. Excellent narration and camera work. Thank You!!
That's a nice Kart! Especially the steering post. Not only do you posses great woodworking skills, your presentation and narration were perfect. Congrats!
Eric, for your own safety and the safety of the people that will follow along, ALWAYS clamp your material to the table when using a drill press. At the very least, tighten a nut and bolt in one of the table slots to be used as a stop/bumper for the part. If the drill grabs that plate and turns it into a helicopter, kiss a finger tip or two Bye-Bye.
That's how I lost a bit of the top of my finger. Was using the meat pliers to hold a piece of sheet metal and it caught. Now I make sure to use regular pliers.
learnt it the hard way after I had my palm sliced open!!
I'd just do it how he does it. Being young gives you superpowers!
@@hoamai2734 Really bad advice.
Imagine trying to drill pin holes in the handle of a freshly forged knife… (this is why I refused to get more than a hobby drill press, I don’t trust myself with a real one)
Also once I was drilling a terminal for a battery cable for a motorcycle(on a full size drill press) and it got stuck and wound me up in the cord/bit. If it hadn’t have been an old 1/2hp drill that I could overpower I probably would have a different shaped wrist
AMAZING skills you a fine job from a quality young man . i very proud of you and your folks they have done a great job with you .
New sub because I looked back into your video content. I have been a lifelong woodworker. You inspire me to build a go art of my own. You also give me hope for your generation. We hear a lot of negative, you prove it ain’t so.
Thank you very much!
Hi father can I see what you build 😊
At 15:00 when you smoked the drill bit, that could have been avoided. drill in an inch then pull the bit up which will clear the chips and allow the bit to run cooler.
What would you say the approximate cost of this build was? (without including price for additional tools)
I also desire this information
My guess Around $600
Me dad and I are building it and everything costs $980 (without additional engine mods)
@@Howdychirpnah probably 800-900
I'd use a motorcycle engine. .a
Maybe 400cc
Thank you Eric. Great job and apprciate your sharing and explaining everything.
The attention to detail is awesome. Since you clearly have the skills for woodworking and mechanics, perhaps a future project would be to build something like a vintage Jeep body type go kart.
Great job my friend.. I use to make them when I was around 10-12 yrs. old, but had to motor, just a person pushing...Lol... Got my first "REAL" live axel go Kart at around 15 & had a lot of fun at night with couple friends having the Po-lice trying to catch us running up and down the streets...Lol.. it was so much fun... I'm 71 now and have a Great Manco Dingo with a 212 I built myself on it.. Have great fun on it & can now enjoy a Fast engine doing all the pushing...Lol... Top speed so far has been 68 MPH. Geared it for this speed as that's fast enough to really have fun but get hurt bad (or even die) if I were to have a Bad accident... Again, that's for your video. It gives young & older people that still like to go outside & have Fun something to do.. Much Love my Brother...
Nice work, man!! Its cool you make the project plans available for folks who may like to create someting like this with their family members, or just plain tinkering. You juice it up, you might want to consider adding some safety gear. Nice to see a young man like yourself doing something with his talents. Good luck to you, Eric!
Some very smart tips...instead of just relying on measurements alone...best to put in position and mark...you can tell this fine young man has done this before.Very simple,but helpful tips for the beginner...for any kind of woodworking.I really love this simple....cheap...but effective design.
wow, great work, this go-kart is great! Congratulations, Eric!👍👍👏 Thanks for the plan!
Thank you and no problem!
No thank you penny for jumping on your son's ass
You got a great head on your shoulders young man! Great job I love your attention to detail. Happy Sunday GOD"S DAY!
Great tradesmen are artist, yet so many look down on it....GREAT WORK!
Super Nice Build Erick Very Well Done 😍 I am a Tomboy and when We Were going to JR High The Kids would Take a 20" Sting Ray Bicycle and take a front rim and take out the spokes from it and smash it thinner and weld it to the rear rim for a pulley we would remove the Pedal's and the center support and bolt on a 3/4" Birch plywood for the engine mount . we would use a 2hp Briggs and Stratton engine with a variable belt clutch I still remember that we used a GATES 64" Green Stripe V Belt we used a handle grip 3 speed shifter for the twist throttle and we only had front brakes and soul brakes from your shoes 😦 LOL I Put a Bicycle Speedometer on it and it would go 40 MPH level - Up Hill - Down Hill - 40 MPH 😊 The COPS would Always Chase me But They Could Not Catch Me 😝 Because I Knew which yards I could Cut Through and Get Away From Them 🤪 Retired Female Equipment Mechanic of over 50 Years Keep up the Great Work Chellie
Haha it sounds like you used to have a lot of fun growing up! Thank you for the kind words.
this the most bad ass humble brag "back in my day" story i've ever read.
you a real one, chellie
That build is super gorgeous!!! Serious skill went into this.
Old school, nice! Back in the 1950's and 1960's this is what more young kids did for fun, more wholesome activities.
Such a fun project! I’ll definitely check out more of your videos. 🎥🎉
As a daddy of three young girls, I am happy to tell you that this build worked just wondrously and all the young girls are just lining up to ride it!
Nice to hear that! I'm 10 and I realy want to build one so I'm watching this too! It's my dream to build a car plane or even boat!
@@StrayOfficial121only one person here is telling the truth 😬
Nice that you pointed out that a full factory set of tools not required. But….that’s an impressive and expensive workshop! Being a Brit my workshop is a shed in the garden, but it does all I need.
My father made me a wooden go-kart in the 1960s.. I still remember watching him build it... the Sheep was made out of a wooden milk crate the two-by-fours was the chassis and to steer the go-kart a clothesline was mounted to the front axle.. my father drilled a hole to put a carriage Bolt so you can steer the go-kart and the wheels were from baby carriages.. and that was it and that my father used to push me up and down the block..
Very cool. My dad made me a soapbox derby type go cart, no engine just push it down a hill and race another cart! Great childhood memories right there.
Awesome build.
You should market this in kit form. All pre drilled holes numbered for assembly, with step by step instructions. You have a winning idea. Good luck
Excellent 👍
Once he sells it it becomes a lawsuit when a kid gets hurt on it. Nothing with a motor should be made of wood. Not everyone that would buy it can build it like he did which wi cause issues
@@mikecolwell5387 he could make one identical but electric !!!
@@mikecolwell5387 Yeah, I built a motorized bike with a 79cc predator and I know how sketchy that is. I would NEVER try something like this made of wood and with a powerful 212cc engine.
You are a wonderful, believable, presenter, and I loke your shop.
What an amazing person you are Eric to produce these excellent plans for free. I don't doubt though that people would want to pay you something if you have a Paypal or Patreon account.
Great work Eric! You are and awesome engineer and craftsman!
...Great post!
Nice looking project, but you still have a lot to learn "grasshopper". LOL At least for anything load bearing you should make sure you are using gr_8 bolts. EG: front "king pins", any bolts in the front steer assembly, bolts securing the pillow blocks for the rear axle. A catastrophic failure at any of those points could/would cause a hard crash. 40 mph may not sound fast, but tossing you off would give you new perspective on that. Nice job, good luck!! --gary
Overkill for this application. If it were going over terrain, I'd agree, but pavement isn't going to stress these bolts anywhere near the breaking point.
Will I ever build such a thing as this? Probably not.
Can I still enjoy this video? Absolutely!!!
54:20 I would strongly advise moving the top suspension location bar rearwards to provide some castor angle, which will greatly help steering stability as this geometry will add a self-centering force.
I mean, is stability really something one is looking for in something like this?
Definitely a concern with a car whose mass could EASILY rip the wheel out of your hands with bad geometry, but I can't imagine this managing to apply that much force to the driver outside of already being in the middle of crashing.
@@Nevir202 What are you talking about? All cars have positive caster angle. Think of force feedback steering wheel in a game constantly trying to move it to the center. This is positive caster angle and it also adds stability. An example of negative caster angle is a shopping cart. Positive caster angle makes it so we don't have to recenter the steering wheel and hold it there. The angle makes it self centering among other perks.
@@bluecar5556 And your argument here is what? You aren't supposed to have your hands off the wheel anyway, especially when driving the way one drives a go kart so self centering is irrelevant when you are going to be manually pointing it where you want it to go.
You might need to worry about wobble if it was something fast, but it's not.
@@Nevir202 Okay
*My Dad was a master woodworker that build a furniture empire of 200 employee's in LA, California from 1966 to 2012. Wood was not my love but I worked from him every summer since I was 12 years old. At 20 years old I built a 2800 Square foot home for me and my wife. One thing my Dad would REALLY drill into my brain was using GLUE! He would go as for as to say "Nail's and screws are only there to hold the wood together while the GLUE DRYS!" He was a GLUE fanatic and he was right! The reputation of his furniture was legendary among Hollywood legends like Micheal Jackson, Will Smith, James Cameron and Steve Spielberg to name just a few of his customers.*
why did you feel the need to make this in bold
@@northernhorror8773 *BECAUSE I AM SPECIAL*
@@northernhorror8773that’s what I was thinking
replace 2 of those washers from each side for 2 thrust needle roller bearings, one on top and one on the bottom for each wheel of each wheel spindle for better steering. Also, 8 washers is just wild, just saw some steel tubing to act as standoffs instead.
Good videography and editing, nice build. One thing I would caution, don't hand hold metal pieces when using a drill press. Always clamp pieces so they can't swing around and injure you. Wood pieces are relatively safe to hand hold, but metal pieces can catch while drilling and really mess up your day!
I loved that you left in the part about the chain cut too short…. Because we have all been there!
Pretty much any project you take on (even the straightforward ones) often have this kind of ‘oh crap’ moment. This makes your video much more realistic. Excellent work though, seriously on another level!
Really nice work, and very well done video. Did you apply threads lock to those barrel nuts and the grub screws on the collars?
Absolutely not...if he had...he would have been sure to include it.Probably won't need it anyway,but it is a good idea.
Speechless, outstanding job. Hope and wish you all the success that you can handle.
Nice project with assisted welding to the steering tie rod and engine riser plate. With that said, drilling metal pieces on the drill press and holding those pieces with your fingers without using a drill vise is going to get you in big trouble. You have tons of expensive nice tools, jointer/plainer, that the average person will not have so spend a few bucks at Harbor Freight and purchase a simple drill vise. It will save you an expensive trip to the ER!!!
Sweet. My dad built a cart for me in 1958. Rope steering, Briggs 3.5hp with a tensioner clutch. Strictly hand tools...
Great job Eric on the go cart. Very cool. Will you add any fabrication to the go cart like making it look like a race car or something similar? 😃 Really like the camera angles on showing off the finished product. Professional looking video.
Thank you Uncle Pat! I probably won’t add anything else to the go kart because I like showing off the wood. I’ll have to show you the stabilizer I got to film some of the shots. It’s got a lot of cool features.
Great job Eric! That thing moves!
Dad walks by like "this boy is not moving out anytime soon"
😂😂😂
What a great project for Dad & son.
Excellent build and video. However, I think you'll find that wooden vehicles can have failures in the joints unless certain care is taken to prevent joint flexing. God knows Glued and Screwed is time-proven joinery, but such joints can fail in tension. Be careful and be aware of your joints over time, especially where fasteners go into the end grain. This is why early wooden aircraft are all heavily cable braced and triangulated.
Pocket hole screws would probably be a step up for the members fastened into end grain.
@@evanmarshall597, for a fixed piece like a cabinet or furniture I would completely agree. But the downside is that the screws would then be going the opposite direction and you'd be limited in the length you could use to the thickness of the receiving piece. Of the few actual wooden vehicles I've seen, besides aircraft where weight is a concern, the preferred fastener system seemed to be carriage bolts into captive nuts, _or_ through bolts/rods going all the way through a cross member to the other side. The latter being used in heavy cargo wagons.
Bravo pour les inventeurs !
Record the neighbors reactions, you wood be more popular than a first amendment auditor. Would a woodchuck chuck?
who gives a fuk karen?
Very good! Congrats. Be safe. 👍
'Don't need many tools, '' says he with industry sized workshop.
you dont "need" them you idiot
Very nice work, I made an airboat years ago, 10 H.P. engine with a 42 inch prop. Ran like a spotted ape, fast and fun to build and use.
I would advise you to copyright these plans. Also take special orders where you build them for buyers as orders come in.
@@rinkydinkfretboard8737 You mean like opening the borders?
1st time I saw this...BEAUTIFUL...u d man...very nice .god bless .
Where are your SAFETY GLASSES ?????
Bit rude, but you got a serious point
Better if you considered to install shock absorber to maintain smooth run❤
Love your work, but boy oh boy does it make my head ache to see someone working in Imperial in 2023 - all this 'eleven seventeenths of an inch' nonsense. You mentioned 'weird measurements' early on - there's no such thing as a 'weird measurement' in Metric, because there's only one standard to follow. It's easier to calculate in your head, or on a calculator. Trust, learn it brother - you're still young enough to adapt and you'll make your life so much easier.
Eric
I was just watching a video on smartwatch repairs and have absolutely no idea why TH-cam automatically led me to your video afterwards. That being said, I watched the entire 56 minutes of your project and am seriously impressed with your work. It's very likeable that you also point out the mistakes you made and make no secret of them! And it is really cool that your Go Kart works so well in the end! Congratulations on your awesome project and good luck with your channel and your upcoming adventures! Best regards from Switzerland!
Great job Eric !!!!! I have a feeling you'll be successful in life !!!!
I built one when I was 12, no engine, used gravity to get speed! big ball bearings for wheels, front axle made with 2 by 4 and did the steering with my feet, we can ride it 2 or 3 kids, lots of road rash but we had fun. Thank you, good video!
Absolutely outstanding craftsmanship! Great job on the build.
Outstanding narration - no monkey business. You have great work ethic. SUBSCRIBED because this channel is going to blow-up.
Kool Daddy O Right ON ,Rock in Roll dude is old school and he is just getting started
Your a very talented young man, who I imagine will go far in life .
I have the same table saw, great entry level shop saw, same with the planer. I’m jealous of your planer.
Great build. You smoked that drill bit because you didn't pull it out every inch or two to clear the chips.
They just built up and with no place to go, the friction built up quick.
Just remove the chips as you go and it'll last for years...
I wish you a long life, man. You are a legend! Even the safety risks you take are a learning point.
very good how-to video.
Back in my day, I'm 75, we called them Mic-Rods , wood farm and body,
The first of them were in Upstate NY, All the Mic Rods were built according to a set standard. we were 7 to 12 years of age.
Of course today, everything is high tech. and of course I don't follow it.
My Neighbor, his father was who was all in to it, built it, and pretty much just slam dunked
his kid in behind the steering wheel... It was more fun to ride on the side streets.............
The Lord Bless you and yours Eric....
Wonderful job with excellent documentation. You are truly a remarkable craftsman and very accurate. Thank you for sharing.
looks like fun and probably fairly light and easy to load up!
I built a wood go cart in 1943, I was 8. The body was a 1x12 shaped like an ironing board. I was given 4 10 inch wagon wheels (got run over by and truck) the steering wheel came off a spoked baby buggy. the steering shaft was a shovel handle and rope was wound around it to control the front axle (2x4) with a metal rod axle and a bolt for center pivot. We had some tin which came off the roofs of the deserted buildings in Austin NV. It was long enough for two and my buddy and I would start high on the canyon side hill and make a couple of high speed turns before hitting highway 50, through town and then stop at the mill below town. Must have been over a mile, maybe more. We made the runs until the rubber wore out and then we ran some on just the metal. Nothing was replaceable that had rubber or metal during WW2
Great fun.
You may want to think about building a sled for the table saw. It makes cutting multiple smaller pieces much easier. Just a thought
Great project. Built one back in 1973 with my buddy growing up. It kept us busy all summer! Your steering column is way better than what we did. Going to have to do a version of yours with my grandson when he is a little older. Now, about the engine....How about a two stroke...industrial chainsaw engine? I will figure it out.😊
It'll be a ripper!
Thank you for bringing creativity and innovation into our lives.
Nice work! Blue Loctite on those brake cable clamps would be reassuring.
Probably not a bad idea!
One suggestion I'd make for your videos would be to give your measurements in Metric also.
Wow this is amazing. You sir are very talented! Thank you for sharing.
This reminds me of a mostly wooden go-kart our dad built for us when we were kids. It had a electric motor and a pulley setup to control the speed with a foot operated pedal. He also managed to cobble together a pretty good resemblance of a Model A Body using sheet metal from an old barbecue grill.
Well done! 10/10 Now you should build a cool hard-shell body kit on it (fiberglass)
That’s some really nice wood! Not Your average 2x4’s! And cabinet grade plywood. Where did you get it all?
This thing is so cool!! Thanks for the video and keep em coming.