Make your own go cart pedal car for kids

A pedal car is a car that is driven by connected feet from the pedal crank to rotate the two front and rear gears that are connected to a chain and push the wheels to spin forward and backward, in this article when the process of making children often call it a go kart.

Pedal mobile car. go carts can be amazing, and become a source of games that improve children's motor skills, make a go cart construction in a very simple construction, below try to assemble your own with materials available at the nearest material store.

 Making a frame

 There are parts that are bought, and there are parts that we can use. Go kart steering parts can be purchased at thrift stores from used wheelchairs. Meanwhile, other components such as hinges for the movement of the steering wheel from the former axle of the wheelchair. some are made of new materials such as chains, gears and frames, the frames are made of 3cm hollow steel with a thickness of 1.6 mm,

Make a go kart steering wheel

 

figure 1

Building a go kart steering system is quite easy according to what has been planned. By cutting the legs from the wheelchair and installing them between the two front wheels, the following results are obtained after installation (figure 1)

Figure 2. Frame assembly and construction of the go kart steering wheel.

 

Making the frame and rear axle holder

In making the seat pipe and the rear axle, it is quite a difficult part, changing the alignment will make the axle difficult to insert on the other side of the rear axle to accommodate the gear wheel to turn the wheel, so you have to be very careful with the process, I made a pipe for the axle. the rear wheel by not cutting it first, this is also quite easy in other work in this section the position of the rear axle pipe,

Figure 3. Making the seat pipe and rear axle

 

Make the driver's seat.

 Next is to make the steering wheel seat, this is adjusted to the age and reach of our child's feet to the maximum pedal distance, to make it more fit and comfortable when pedaling.

Figure 4. Making the steering wheel seat.

 

Assembling, Installing front and rear wheels and pedals

 The last part in making this homemade pedal car is preparing and installing all the wheels, the front wheels are made free to rotate, while the rear wheels are fixed to the axle, this allows the wheels to be carried around when pedaled.

Figure 5. Assembly, Installing front and rear wheels and pedals

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