Help identifying tecumseh engine
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not in that manual;
but yes, 2.6kW (3.5HP)
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but yes, 2.6kW (3.5HP)
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What?
I got another engine like this so I thought putting them both on a karting, dual engine. My English is bad, sorry.
So I did some thinking and I want to put two engines on karting, I thought to link them with a jackshaft so when I pull to start one engine second one starts also. On the other end of jackshaft I want to put centrifugal clutch and connect it to the axle. What do you guys think about that?
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So I did some thinking and I want to put two engines on karting, I thought to link them with a jackshaft so when I pull to start one engine second one starts also. On the other end of jackshaft I want to put centrifugal clutch and connect it to the axle. What do you guys think about that?
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Poboy kartman
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It's been discussed before, but the solution that was discussed then was a clutch on each engine and a live axle with 2 sprockets IIRC...
Poboy kartman
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Bad idea...IMO....the engines will never be perfectly synchronized....so fight each other....and....think about how hard it is to pull start one engine...
Now you're going to do two at once?
Now you're going to do two at once?
I saw a youtube video as well and it seemed to work pretty good. They put it on the idler drum of a car dyno and verified that it accelerated twice as fast with both motors running. He had some issue with the throttle cabling, but once resolved it seemed to work well. Plus you could run it with either motor and the other just spun the outside of the centrifugal clutch without causing any problems. It was a live axle with no differential with side-by-side identical motors. I can't remember what they were exactly, just that they were identical.
These are the videos I watched. Looks like new Predator motors I think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kN222TcGHk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDpjQnMg-nk
These are the videos I watched. Looks like new Predator motors I think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kN222TcGHk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDpjQnMg-nk
Poboy kartman
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And you guys don't see the difference between what he described and what I described and how those YouTube videos were exactly engines with individual centrifugal clutches hooked up to a live axle? ???
And you guys don't see the difference between what he described and what I described and how those YouTube videos were exactly engines with individual centrifugal clutches hooked up to a live axle? ???
I thought I did. The video I posted seems to me to be the obvious way to do it which is what I thought you described. I certainly wouldn't try to hook both crankshafts together directly on a jackshaft with no clutch between them.
I would be curious to see how they could be connected so that they could run at different RPMs and still work together efficiently. I'm thinking that using something like an automobile single-track differential axle operating in reverse. The engines would drive the axles and the u-joint (driveshaft) would spin at the average RPM of the inputs with the spider gears making up the difference. Of course the ring/pinion ratio would come into play.
Poboy kartman
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That's my point....my post was telling him not to directly connect both engines....read...."clutch on jackshaft "....
His response was he had seen it "DONE ON FACEBOOK"....
But the vids you guys offered up don't show that....
They show what I described.....so....let's see some vids with a direct link pair with one clutch on the jackshaft .....
I don't think it's happening.....
His response was he had seen it "DONE ON FACEBOOK"....
But the vids you guys offered up don't show that....
They show what I described.....so....let's see some vids with a direct link pair with one clutch on the jackshaft .....
I don't think it's happening.....
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