$50 Budget Go Kart ep2 - I will be adapting ATV wheels for Go Kart use. I purchased a rear wheel Axle Hub, front knuckle and hub, new seats from a school bus, a nifty tshirt from GoPowerSports.com gopowersports.com
Hi, what size was the spindle and what hub did you use? I noticed some play in the spacing where the spindle went into the hub.. I am doing the exact same thing... Any advice while shopping for atv wheels? Thinking just 4x110 bolt pattern should do it. Thanks, Dan
I would need to look it up. I shelved this project for right now. Got a lot of other things on the front burner. It’s harder than I thought trying to get quad wheels on a go kart. I bought some custom machined wheel adapters.
@@Jeep-Creep Yes thats what i was going to do, for the rear axle I have a one inch with 3/4 keyed thread (for the current wheels) on amazon they make a wheel adapter 1 inch to 3/4 keyed but has 4x110 bolt pattern that is common with ATV wheels. Thats what Ia m going to do for the rear and use Spacers as well... in the front I got some 6 inch spindles and have wheel hubs on it now, not sure on bolt size and pattern so we will see!. Good luck to all !
@@bleezham I found some info that helped me a lot. First problem I had, sorta, was identifying the wheels I had. I just bought random old ATV wheels/tires but had no idea their size or anything about them. So I found this website that tells you all ATV, UTV wheel sizes, this helped me a ton. recstuff.com/atv-trailer-fitment/ So I learned in my example, my wheels fit a Suzuki Quad models - LTF250 Quadrunner, LTF300 King Quad, or LTF4WD, and uses a bolt pattern of 4/140 as in 4 bolts, and 140mm center to center across the bolts. Originally I thought I had some whacky wheel size, I measured in inches, and around 5.5" or 139.7mm so I thought I would get the closest gokart wheel pattern size for adapting, which is 5 3/8" which wasn't the best thinking... So I started looking up 139.7mm wheel pattern sizes... Guess what nothing exists... there are 140mm wheel pattern sizes, BINGO! Like the above. So I used the 4x140 size and looked for a gokart wheel size I could adapt to and found on a site I like to use www.BMIkarts.com and they sell wheel hubs in a 4x100 size. So last part of the puzzle does anyone premake a 4x140 to 4x100 adapter? YES! They are quite common too, I found a ton on eBay as they are made for Subaru and Suzuki wheel adaptations. This is great news! So at least the wheel fiasco has been solved. I am still having issues trying to get the front steering knuckles to fit right, still kinda looking for parts for that. I thought I would update you on my findings, helps to look at something from a different view sometimes... I was going too custom on this build, when their is plenty of OEM out there.
@@Jeep-Creep this is awesome info and I appreciate you taking the time to explain. As I dig further into my project I now have the following setup. 6 inch spindles that are 5/8 and a new 44 inch rear axle that is 1inch with a 3/4 stepdown. That said I now need to find wheel hubs for the front spindles and back axle. The fronts need to fit on a 5/8 inch spindle with some sort of bearing, and another that will fit the axle 3/4. I need to search BMI some more (where I purchase the 6 inch spindle and axle). Finally the bolt pattern, sounds like I should go 4x100 to make life easier... My last resort to widen the kart and get bigger wheels will be to simply cut to pipe and weld/extend where the spindle mounting bracket goes..... We will see.
What area are you in? I am always on the look out for deals. They randomly fall in my lap. I live in Linden, MI and I hunt everything between here and Detroit, Flint. I see decent prices a lot. Facebook marketplace is the best. Still use craigslist too.
@@marvensjoseph1943 Yeah, no problem! I am leaning to use RU-vid in a much better capacity, for following a project, I have setup playlists for each, so you can see all the videos in a job! check it out, its handy! Click the "PLAYLISTS" thing on my channel. ru-vid.com/show-UC7fv6NxmgWZ5ymrS6iD-5kA?view_as=subscriber
