With my first year, albeit slightly different to what I had planned, coming to a close. I was wondering what people do for a ‘yearly service’ so to speak.
Any tips or tricks you can share would be great!
With my first year, albeit slightly different to what I had planned, coming to a close. I was wondering what people do for a ‘yearly service’ so to speak.
Any tips or tricks you can share would be great!
Are you following a 2-stroke rebuild plan? Normally end of season is when the engine goes off to the builders for a bottom end.
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Personally, I get my chassis to a frame table and have it checked and straightened if need be. Strip, clean, possible repowder. Send the engines to the engine guys.
Once I get everything back, I ignore it until a week before the first race and then thrash everything together.
It depends for me, if its a class I am running competitively then I tear it down to the frame and rebuild part by part ensuring everything is as good as I can make it. This is also true any time I get a new kart it gets torn apart till its nothing but a frame. The frame gets repaired/changed/checked and then part by part reassembly begins which is a long process.
I am also one of the few people that prep bearings for the season and I do testing over winter as well on the Dyno or Flo bench etc.