Lawn Mower Go Kart - How it is Done With a Vertical machine

Lawn Mower - Lawn Mower Go Kart - How it is Done With a Vertical machine

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I get asked the quiz, every day "How Do I Use My Old Lawn Mower motor To Run A Go Kart?"

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Well the retort comes in about three separate forms:

-Gear Box Drive
-Flipped Engine: Vertical to Horizontal Conversion
-Twisted Belt Drive

Each one of these systems is seeking to solve the vertical motor drive problem: vertical engines have their shafts pointing up and down. The quiz, is: "How in the world do I get the wheels that spin horizontally, to spin using a vertical shaft?"

This is the age old quiz, of transmissions and motor orientation layouts.

I will tell you that when most citizen look at the options of what it takes to use an old vertical engine, and they just throw it back into the corner.

But I think that most do that because the solutions look so ominous.

I remember as a kid looking at a vertical motor drive go kart and being very impressed by it. Unfortunately, because I was a kid (8 years old) I didn't have the foggiest idea how that go kart was literally using that engine. It still in my memory looks like a bunch of belts and pulleys. That's all I got out of it.

Most would think that you have to be a mechanical genius to literally get a vertical motor to work on a go kart. But you literally don't, you need to understand some basic mechanics, and then it is doable.

To start out with, some understanding about vertical engines is needed.

First of all, the vertical motor typically has some down sides that most overlook, it has a 7/8 th's drive shaft. Try looking a pulley or clutch that is going to fit that!

Secondly, vertical engines that have a blade attached directly to the engine, use the blade as a flywheel. The motor will not run well, it at all without the blade, or an extra weight system.

Thirdly, a vertical motor internally is designed to run vertically, because of the oil dispersion mechanisms that are inside. They range from flinger splashers that run off of the cam shaft, or actual oil pumps that run off of the cam shaft.

If the motor is put on its side, the flingers, and the pumps will be running in air. As a consequence no oil will be flung at the internal parts, and the motor will seize up in short order.

Additionally, the connecting rods are not designed to take in oil as a horizontal engine. Typically, the rod will have a hole in the top of the crank journal that will accept oil. If this hole is absent, no oil will enter via that channel, and the, yes as you guessed it, the rod will seize up solid on the crank journal.

Fourthly, the carburetor set up on a vertical motor is designed to run vertical. A modified carburetor mount is required to run the motor horizontal. Additionally, the governor mechanism, will be, for all arduous purposes (unless you are a mechanical genius), render useless and non operational. In other words you could over rev the motor literally (to some of us that is not an issue, but with an unskilled driver, this can be a very larger problem!)

With all this ominous information, it looks pretty grim from the surface. I have some good news, and that is: no it is not as ominous as it looks. There is a very doable, very cheap solution, that just waits to be discussed...

Next time the separate methods, their pluses and minuses...

I hope you get new knowledge about Lawn Mower. Where you possibly can put to used in your daily life. And most significantly, your reaction is passed about Lawn Mower.