new to karting and bought my son a kart well it ended up being a straight rail kart and were gonna run dirt oval so the dilemma is how do I get wide right front wheel on as it wont fit do I need to change spindle or bushings or can I buy a certain rim that will work thanks for any help
Help!!!!!!!
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mad racing
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move the shims from outside of wheel hub to inside , this will move hub out more and should give you enough room . or might have to go to a 9 inch wide rim . that has less back spacing than a 10 inch
mikelavite#72
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flip flop the wheel spacers from outside to inside , as said in above post . then try the rotateing hub
dopeyferree
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You still have some time, put your straight rail up for sale and see if you get any takers. Then get you an offset kart
jack burroughs
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Straight rails used to work well with, reverse cross, that means more on the L/F, I can't give you any numbers, because we never scaled them back then, may J.P. from Pa., might help you he ran one of them very well, a few yrs. back.
mikelavite#72
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we won a point championship in 09 with a straight rail . we changed to a offset chassis that season but the straight rail got us there 
I raced a 1978 margay panther x for 2 seasons on a bull ring and a little larger track and it would handle any line I wanted to drive. Faster than a lot of brand new karts. Just no body on it and flipped it when a buddy spun out in front of me. Ramped it right over his nose... Now it's a trophy on the wall of my garage...