Recent content by Richard III

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    Tire Sizes and Ratios

    ok so right now I have 13x5-6 tires on my gokart and I was wondering if I where to put bigger tires with the same rim diameter onto my gokart if that would give me less acceleration and greater speed or am I wrong. Is there anything else I should know about increasing tire size. Also Ive been...
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    Intallsing an Start Motor to my Engine

    ok I am installing an electric starter (Tecumseh 29965) to my Tecumseh H70-130205D engine. I am going to have a 12v battery that is charged using the AC stator inside the flywheel by having a rectifier in line to the battery. Then the starter motor will be turned over by a switch that is...
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    Starter Fluid

    Ok so today my gokart tecuseh Power Sport 5 HP engine woudl not start and i ddi all the basic checks and everything seemed to be fine. So i was at the store with my ad and we picked up some Prestone Premium Starter Fluid and I spraed in a burst for 1 sec and then pulled the starter cord and it...
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    Air Filter - Hurting Engine

    ok I have a tecushem h70 engine that came off of a snowblower engine. It runns pretty well when it idels (idels a little fast but all i have to do for that is turn the idle screw a bit and that should be fine) and it runs good when I press the gas, the only problem is when I put the air filter...
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    Oil Sensor and Go-kart Engines

    Yesturday I found an extremly good piece of information and it maybe very helpful to you if your gokart is having troulbe running while takeing turns. I have a Central Machinery 6.5 hp engine that I mounted on my Stingray gokart frame about 2 yrs ago and ever since then I was not able to take...
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    How should I go bout adding Lights.

    I was thinking about adding maybe 2 headlights and maybe some running lights on the back of my gokart and I have room for a battery and I want to be able to plug the gokart in and let the battery charge. Dose any one know how this can be done I saw these lights below at northern tool. (12v DC)...
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    Manco Go-kart Upgrade (Pictures)

    The Go-kart This Month I started upgradeing my whole go-kart. The go-kart is a Manco Stinger. I can't find the go-kart on the site proboaly beacase it is so old. But whatever. I bought the kart for $175 and the engine was on it way out. I got about 5 months out of the engine and now I can start...
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    Clutch removal

    I got a new engine for my go-cart for christmas and I'm in the process of putting it on. I'm stuck at removing the centrifugal clutch from the old engine so I can install it on the new engine. The old engine is a tired tecumsah 5hp or so and I am replacing it with 6.5 hp one. Can anyone help...
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