[Finalist] [24] Budgets GT1000 "Cruskee"

Havent seen much progress but i have had a little time last weekend and today!
I started with butchering a 40$ crackhead coleman atv for the front end, i cut the spindles down and cut down some craftsman spindles, welded em up solid and reinforced em.
Then i got squirrel brained and chopped up a new dash i had laying around and installed a husqavarna voltage gauge and a brand new freebie oil pressure gauge.
and i then got back to building the front end and ran out of daylight on sunday, started again today and finished my tierod using the stock craftsman tie rod and cut a atv tierod in half for ball joints and adjustability, i got it all assembled and it steers very nice
so then instead of fixing other problems i decided to start on the exhaust and i started to make a collector to slide over the pipes i already made, because i lost my old 2 into one i made.
Then ran out of time again and went home to write up my post, had to blue teeth from my janky phone to my janky laptop with a swollen battery

the reason i made those hubs is so i can use the cable driven drum brakes from the front of that coleman atv and i am going to somehow make a brake pedal to run those also i get roller bearings and bolt on wheels, now i gotta either cough up 80$ for new tires or adapt the hubs to 8 inch front wheels so i can run my brand new sunf tires.
Another perk of those hubs is it lowered the front end an inch. i definitely likey those fake plastic rim guards tho they look neat.
got alotta work to do this week and hopefully i can get this rig done for the buildoff! the only thing i have to fix is the kill switch to qualify as finished i suppose.
PIC DUMP!

For todays update i started with welding the collector to a chunk of old 350 chevy header and i had to setup my new Yeswelder from scamazon and, its a three process welder, it does flux core, tig and stick all for 150$ so far its good at flux core and stick

lookin snazzy

Started work on making a dash panel to make my hood sit a little better and to keep the hood pins from the old dash, which i butchered to make this.

anybody know how to decode these tags? Im just curious on what year this rig is.

@Budget_gokart I can decode that. My blind self just can't see the serial number Lol

Typically done by SN and that isn't legible. Although tractordata for the model shows 2001.

I finally get to say its complete! to build off standards at-least, there's still tons of work to do on it but i went for a rip after the video and its so much fun to rip this thing with the new steering and exhaust pipe

#Complete24 - MR

Budget_gokart wrote:

I finally get to say its complete! to build off standards at-least, there's still tons of work to do on it but i went for a rip after the video and its so much fun to rip this thing with the new steering and exhaust pipe

Thing sounds like a harley.

It sounds so good and looks so cool, it just got a new belt and I'm still playing with the steering some it needs adjustments, I'm also trying to find a way to mount 8inch rims to this weird 3 lug Chinese bolt circle