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 gon na show you guys what you need to get to build your very own wooden, no welding, go-kart first thing: you're gon na need a reel. Some tires. You got all ours as a set already mounted and everything, and then one of your wheels is gon na 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 gon na 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 gon na 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 gon na vary for people is how much of legroom you're gon na 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 gon na 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 gon na 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 okay, so we got all the streets on the top, and now some working student, we're doing is basically you're gon na 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 gon na 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 gon na 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 gon na do is you're gon na 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 gon na 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 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 gon na 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 gon na 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, oh, oh man, these are way taller tires a monster truck. Look at that turn, though yeah we're gon na 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 gon na have some room to slide the holes forward and backwards before we hit this Piece so I'm gon na 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 gon na 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 gon na 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 gon na do. Is you wan na 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 gon na 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 gon na 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 gon na 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. 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 gon na be a speed dating or anything, but you could upgrade it sure 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, 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, 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 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.