Thepartsguy
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tractors or Tillers anything like that style of equipment is good. generators and any pump style of equipment not good. You really have to know what you wanna do and how you Intend to ride the kart before you build it. Once you buy parts and your stuck with bad gearing or parts that won’t jive it’s over.. all 8hp’s And some 5hp’s I have seen are 1” the 12hp I had was 1 1/4 milled to 1” to fit a clutch. 1” clutches I run are cheap with 14 teeth. that gearing Probably isn’t right for you at all. and 10t 1” clutches from Norman are about the cost of a predator. I advise against paying much for a usable 8hp. and the measurements are so close you just set the 8hp on the mount and eyeball grind all four slots out. the mounting pattern is close ebough I was able to grind it out on 3 karts. You can grind it out to fit a 8hp Briggs Tecumseh only. as the mont patter is close enough to the 5 to eyeball it. Just build a predator. that’s my go to now. Do’t go through all this crap like I did...That’s what I thought about the generator. Is yours a 1inch shaft? And what’s the mounting width? Thanks a ton for teaching an 8hp noob!
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