Recent content by kartaddict91

Back again, again for help I have a push mower that a lil older, not much, I'm not sure of the brand name but its a briggs motor. I let my bro borrow it and it mysteriously came back in the middle of the night without my knowledge. The next day I went to start it and the cord snapped, I...

Would Synthetic hurt a kart engine?

Yeah this could easily turn into the ford gm debate...but personally I don't have a preference of engines and karts and what not, when it comes to mowers, that's a different story. If this engine blows, then I will tear it apart and rebuild it, not because its cheaper or anything like that, but...

the predator sounds cool, but it really didnt cost me much to get it going...really the only things I bought were a diaphram, a throttle screw and a new magneto. I probably paid between 20-30 for it all. even though its a pain sometimes, i love tearing stuff apart and putting it back together

PA can get COLD in the winter, maybe not as cold as CT but pretty dang cold, but I wont be riding it in the winter time anyways...I guess SAE 30 it is, will be picking some up soon... Thanks for the help guys

Wanting to do an oil change on my kart now since I got it running...its an older 5 HP briggs... wondering what weight oil I should use? Couldn't find anything using the search.

well I pretty musch did what you said toystory...got all the rust out of there, put it all back together, messed with the settings, and BOOM the kart now runs like a champ no problem at all, rode it for hours tonight and had a blast... I thank you all again for all the help and info!!!

well i put it all back together once more and i ran it for about an hour before it quit completely. Once again I tore it off and found all these rust particles, drained the tank once more and tilted it and bam there it was, a ton of rust on the bottom of the tank. I completely cleaned the carb...

Thanks much for the info...I tore the carb off today and to my surprise I found a dead bug stuck in the pick-up screen...cleaned it off and blew some compressed air through the screen. Put the carb back on and ran like new! Had about 30 min. of fun and it shut off again...so I tore the carb...

Welcome! I'm in south east york county fawn grove to be exact if thats anywhere close to you...

http://s106.photobucket.com/albums/m254/zambitoman/?action=view&current=photobucket-582-1338515203828.mp4 Heres a video of what I am talking about, its a bit choppy but should be enough to show you what is going on...

honestly I have no idea how to check the mixture. All the gaskets are there but one. the tank to carb gasket i just made out of RTV...would this be causing the issue? (if it is you can call be dumb, but like I said I'm a newb to this small engine stuff.)

it acts like its going to die, sputters and what not, sometimes once i turn the choke off it will die but most of the time its when i hit the accel. I do have a video of this occuring, i just have to figure out a way to get it on my comp...

hello all, my name is chris, 21, car mechanic in lancaster, pa, newb to diy go karts.. I have a Manco American Express kart with a 5 H.P. briggs...having issues with it though which i posted in the forum already... glad to be here at diy and looking forward to learning alot and meeting y'all...

Hey, total newb here so sorrry if I cant describe well... I have a 5h.p. briggs motor on a manco amercian express kart...fun thing it is...A few years ago i tore it apart to clean the carb and what not, i then moved out and went to college and so forth...I just recently moved back home and put...