Help ASAP please

My two trikes are geared way to high for what i want them to day and id really like them both to be done by monday or at least wendsday of next week. my trike has a 2 inch on the motor and 10 inch on the axle. and it bogs down the motor with 16's on it? when before i had a 9 on the axle and 2 on the motor and didnt bog down. also my friends has a 3 inch on the motor and a 12 inch on the axle with a 13. his doesnt bog down as much as mine but its a centriugal clutch and it doesnt like starting off. the one with the 2-10 in has enough room for a 15 inch pulley on the axle should i look for a big pulley up my camp this weekend or should i start finding stuff for a jackshaft. my second one does not have enough room for anything bigger, so should i put a jackshaft on that one? heres a pic of my set ups both with a belt and tensionor pulley

for some reason the picture thing wont let me upload sorry i cant put pictures on

seems like to high of a ratio yours is a 1:5 and your buddies is less at 1:4 and 9 on the axle and 2 on the motor is bout 1:4.5 so a lower ratio or a bigger engine should fix that

yea i know the ratios and everything but my delema is whats the easiest way to fix it, like do i absolutely have to get a jackshaft on both of them or should i try and find a massive pulley for mine this weekend and hope i luck out

how fast u lookin to go with this thing? i was watchin you your videos... so with one wheel drive you will constantly have to be counter steering cuz it will want to spin in circles. putting in a live axle will solve that.

and on my tractor if i spin one wheel by hand the other will spin in the opposite direction... but idk how your tranny is setup

both of these have already moved and been driven before all summer long we didnt have problems i was up my camp and theres all flat roads. my friend here in the city bought his trike off of him and he ought a centrifugal clutch. we are gonna be riding trails and doing hill climbs both of them i estimate doing around 40 right now and would like to get both of them down to 25 mph

i talked to my buddy and with his parts and my parts we should have enough stuff to jackshaft my friends trike and we are going to try and find me a 12inch+ pulley for mine and if not i will jackshaft mine tooo, gonna be tired for school on monday but owell thanks for the help anyways

oh alright.. i didnt realize you werent using a transaxle so i dont kno much bout the ratios an stuff for a live axle. lol my bad

o its fine if i was actually using the transaxle i wouldnt be asking this, im good with the gearings on them. the one is using a transaxle just as and axle holder you can call it haha, but it just has the two shafts in it not any other gears and the pulley is bolted dirrectly to the drive wheel.

noledroByrreK wrote:

how fast u lookin to go with this thing? i was watchin you your videos... so with one wheel drive you will constantly have to be counter steering cuz it will want to spin in circles. putting in a live axle will solve that.

and on my tractor if i spin one wheel by hand the other will spin in the opposite direction... but idk how your tranny is setup

one wheel drive still goes straight no problem, i had a murray go kart 6 horse tecumpseh straight to the rear left wheel and i never noticed it turning

A 10:1 would probably be good.
But you don't have room for a bigger rear pulley correct?
Really isn't many ways to solve that without a gear box or jackshaft.

mine has room for up to a 15 inch and if i can get a 15 in it will be 7.5:1 wich i used a gokart speed calculator wich will get me doing 23mph wich will have enough torque but my friends there is no room so i am puttin a jackshaft on it, and to theboredredneck they do fight you on these trikes it always wants to go towards the right and you had to steer against it but its good

redzz02 wrote:

mine has room for up to a 15 inch and if i can get a 15 in it will be 7.5:1 wich i used a gokart speed calculator wich will get me doing 23mph wich will have enough torque but my friends there is no room so i am puttin a jackshaft on it, and to theboredredneck they do fight you on these trikes it always wants to go towards the right and you had to steer against it but its good

But this thing weighs more then a kart rite?
Yeah a 15" probably would work just fine, and you'll still have a some nice top speed too.

no they arent heavy at all, thats why they fight you, they are pretty light i could probably pick the whole thing up if i had too

Ok cool, so the 15" pulley would work great.
I'd go for that!

thats what im hoping to find this weekend and then itll work good