Moving a kart seat

[Mooseboy]

I am competely new at all of this and am learning as I go along !!
My son has just got his ARKS licence and has been in 3 races so far but he has grown so I need to move his seat. Have managed to remove the seat but how the heck do I move it backwards and still manage to get it to sit flush with the two front brackets (Anderson chassis, Honda engine). I've been trying to figure it out all day. Any practical advice or is there a manual on line I can look at ?
Many Thanks

[Kieran20]

Originally Posted by Mooseboy

I am competely new at all of this and am learning as I go along !!
My son has just got his ARKS licence and has been in 3 races so far but he has grown so I need to move his seat. Have managed to remove the seat but how the heck do I move it backwards and still manage to get it to sit flush with the two front brackets (Anderson chassis, Honda engine). I've been trying to figure it out all day. Any practical advice or is there a manual on line I can look at ?
Many Thanks

there is no other way of doing it apart from drilling new holes. the easiest way to do it is to measure from the exising hole how far back the seat is going to be, so for example 1 inch, forward on the seat, so the seat will be sitting further back on the kart.

once this is done, bolt the two sides up, fairly tight, so you can still tilt the seat, then alighn the bottom holes, using soem spacers underneath. if you look underneath, the bottom of the seat where its flat should be flush with the chassis, depedning on how you son likes to sit, some like it tilted back some more upright.

hope this helps.

email me for more help. email in my profile.

[Mooseboy]

Thanks for this advice but I still get the problem of the two front struts not sitting flush with the underside of the seat ? There is quite a gap between them. I have bought some spacers today but am worried about the rather acute angle that the seat sits on the front struts.
I need to move the seat about 2ins. Any further advice appreciated.

[#15 tkm 4/]

we have run spacers, on ever single kart we have ever owned, between the front braces and the seats, whereas the rear seat braces sit flush. This is the norm i believe as even tal-ko themselves set my kart up like that

[ghinzani]

I find rubber door stops better than the hard plastic seat spacers, but thats just personal preference.