Recent content by mudpie

I found this on craigslist. It looks interesting, and I'm debating buying it. It supposedly runs good, has a 5hp, and the seller is asking 275. I'm thinking it would almost fly with the 11hp I've got in my garage. Problem is, I'm 1000 miles from home at the moment, so I'd have to strap it to...

I've seen some of the engines with pressurized oiling, and filters. This definitely isn't one of them. I went to my local small engine repair guy, who I've found in the past to be pretty brilliant. He was baffled. He said it should be just a basic on/off switch, and had no clue what the oil...

Eventually, since it's got electric start, I was going to wire it to a kill switch on the steering column. The place I plan to ride is shared with people on horses. I'd like to be able to shut it off if I'm in a situation where I don't want to spook a passing 1500 pound animal.

Howdy. I suppose I'm new, but I've got my first thread already running in the engine section, so this "Intro" is belated I guess. I don't generally post in this section on other forums I've signed up on, since I get the impression they're generally not really read a lot, and when they are...

I thought it was a little odd too. Why have an on/off switch connected to anything oil related? Why would you turn off the oil? There is evidence of another switch, or maybe something that's part of the same system. In the pic below, you can see a wire with a bolt on it. Just above that...

So, if I'm getting this right, when it was hooked up, the low oil warning was on a rocker switch and could be turned off? It would seem to me that it's currently disabled with the switch gone. Wouldn't it be better to hook it back up, but use the rocker switch to turn it off when I'm bouncing...

Howdy. I've been lurking for a while, but this is my first post. I have no idea at all what I'm doing, so I suspect I'll be asking lots of dumb questions with obvious answers. I recently picked up a motor that I want to put on a kart. The guy told me it was once a portable water pump...