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While sitting around talking with Scott Kneisel recently he said he had suffered a on track 'incident' and the resultant damage was a tweaked front axle on his Dart Kart. Scott then went on to describe a homemade tool that Rob Voska told him about that functions much like a poor mans porta-power that he made up and used to perform needed repairs similar to what Scott needed to do.

What Scott did to make his repair tool was locate some old front axle cut-offs, he then put a piece of threaded rod with 2 washers and 2 nuts threaded on the rod and slid it between the 2 axle cut offs which created a expandable jacking type tool. The beauty of Scott's set-up using old front axle pieces is that the 'C' sections where the spindles formerly went in the axles helps to hold the jack from sliding around while in use.

As Scott applied low heat to the bent area he then began to thread the nuts outward which expanded the jacks length thus enabling Scott to push the axle back to its original location. See the photos below for a more detailed view.





This is a simple technique and many different forms and designs of the 'jack' can be made to fix many different areas of the chassis from front axle to rear bumpers, to steering uprights and on and on.

Special Thanks to Scott for sharing this with us and helping to keep Americas early historical karting past alive.

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While digging for something else I finally found the tool I built. Used scrap and only takes a short time to put together. Put a 36" piece of round stock in the kingpin hole on both sides to make sure they are even both caster & camber.

That was a Super K that Scott saved the original axle with the straightner tool. And the real bonus is it handles better than it ever did. It was a handful to get it to turn before , now it handles great. Thx Scott and Rob.