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Posted: Tue Sep 5th, 2017 02:11 am |
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Carl Haydt
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Spent the day today replacing the front axle on one of my Foxes. Almost got this act down to under an hour thanks to having complete spare axles on hand. Many thanks to Joel Christens as he is the one who fabricates the front axle assemblies for me.
His workmanship is awsome and makes this job easy!
Right now the axle is squared to the rear axle & the caster is set so I tack welded it in place then it's off to my welder guy to have it tig welded.
When it gets back I'll re-assemble the kart then set it on the scales to see how much the front axle needs to be bent to get the correct percentages back.
More pics as I go.
http://s260.photobucket.com/user/modified32/slideshow/74X%20repair
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Posted: Tue Sep 5th, 2017 02:45 am |
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tommy kelley
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ouch what happened in the first place
joel is the man for fox axles..did you get the heaver wall version?
also like the ackerman steering sett up your running
tk
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Posted: Wed Sep 6th, 2017 01:50 am |
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Posted: Wed Sep 6th, 2017 01:34 pm |
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Doug Tenney
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Yeah. The good thing with club racing is, you usually know what the other guys are going to do when the green drops. (In my case, they all do pretty much the same thing: disappear into the forward horizon ).
I guess the "take away" lesson was, pushing the envelope to stubbornly hold one's line into the very first turn wasn't worth it. Especially since the field spread out pretty quickly on the restart anyway, as it usually does.
Oh well. Oreville's sweeper has a decreasing radius... come in a bit too hot and it'll get ya. Ask me how I know...
THE GOOD NEWS IS: we have a couple of new karts running vintage rear! They don't come along every day. Onward and upward!
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Posted: Wed Sep 6th, 2017 09:51 pm |
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Posted: Wed Sep 6th, 2017 11:08 pm |
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Posted: Thu Sep 7th, 2017 02:51 pm |
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Posted: Sat Sep 9th, 2017 12:08 pm |
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S Kneisel
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Nice job Carl,
Is Barry OK? When Sam and I got mixed up at Sandy Hook when I spun in front of him and he flipped, he seemed OK at first until a day or two later, he still has some lingering stuff from that. I wish we had pix of that so we could see what actually happened.
See you next weekend,
Scott
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Posted: Sat Sep 9th, 2017 08:22 pm |
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