Thank you! I was hesitant to rip into the engine's inner guts without someone besides me believing it a reasonable course of action. I'll shop for estimates this week.
I was hoping to use a Kohler v-twin in a Chinese cross-kart build (think old Trail Master) but have run into issues sourcing a 1-7/16" bore centrifugal clutch. As I was lurking in the forum, I noticed a thread posted last year about about the same thing; it looked like the consensus was to...