Stupid retaining clip came out and the bearings left a trail. The race got me aggravated so I took the air chisel to it then had to fill up the gouges with weld and polish it back down. This cart has been a pain but it was free. Can’t get parts for it. I put the oil seal in with RV gasket sealer around it lol. That’s why I needed the cheerwine floats
Goodness! That looks like a headache. Can’t see the pic of the new one but it sounds like you don’t have to mess with that one anymore unless you just get a wild hair
Brought it from the store to the shop, then straight to Christmas family shindig at my sister’s. Supposedly it will get 40 miles per charge. Think I can wire up my deer winch to the back up camera
I’ve been to the mini golf with the kids, but I’ve never stepped foot on a golf course. No self respecting man can say they had rather golf than tinker in the shop or take their kids frog giggin.
I love golfing. Got into about five years ago and it’s just a damn good time to go out and have a few cold drinks and relax on a Sunday. The wife drives the cart and plays caddie and I do my best not to shoot triple digits. All in all, it’s fun and pretty good exercise if you really practice a lot.
And, compared to most of my other tinker projects, it’s pretty cheap lol I just dropped about $5k on my truck with new parts and some doodads and doohickeys so $50 for a round of golf is a drop in the bucket.
I’ve had the same golf cart for 10 years now (Wow! time flies!). I built the engine in my kitchen. I may get crazy & upgrade it again next year for engine swap #5. It’s plenty dangerous as it is, but a Honda S2000 or K series just might be big fun.
What you got in there now? I had a beach buggy years ago with a 4AGE blacktop in it, factory quad throttle bodies, revved out to 8000 all day long. Split my head open one time on the bar work, I couldn’t fit in it with a helmet, sold the buggy still have the scar.
Today, it’s got an OBD1 16 valve 1.6 Geo Tracker engine out of a 1995 model, everything is EFI. I’ve babied it but it has exceeded 8,000 rpms when needed. There is no rev limiter. We don’t like rev limiters.
I’d love to put a 2.3 in it out of a Suzuki Aerio next, but they are getting pretty old at this point & I don’t want to put anything too old under the hood of my rig… but still might get crazy if the right one comes along. But even that is a very involved swap. Any engine swap can only be taken too lightly. It can only be underestimated. If anyone tells you otherwise, they ain’t done one.
I hear ya! Many don’t think past the engine mounts . Have an LSX ready to go, just need to harass and abuse my buddy a bit more to sell me his 69 Camaro shell, I might go egg his house later on if the rain stops.