Susan P. Davis I can guess what you do without going to the site. You take people's money for teaching them how to take other people's money!! LOL I'm all for free Enterprise but that's not what we call this!! LOL
too bad they straight up lie to its subscribers and takes advantage of their curiosity, all they did was clean a fuckin carb in the video and they didnt even show that! yet they labeled the video free mods to boost horsepower??? r they for real??? they cleaned a carb they consider that mod??? jesus christ its morons like this that give real mechanics a bad name didnt u feel tricked when u clicked on a video about modding n engine then they dont even show u how to clean the carb??
We fought carburetor problems most of the day, but it ran so much better in the end! I guess the best way to fix a Tecumseh carburetor is to replace it with a 212 carb!
CarsandCameras hay I was wondering if with this one or another 2seater cart could you show us how to make it a once seater and how to move everything to the middle?
I had this motor in my gocart back when I was 15 years old. When it ran right it was pretty good. When it had problems, it really really had problems. It was a love hate hate relationship. So I ditched it and got a predator 212 lol
What I have always like about you guys is you don't stray very far from your beginnings. You change things up from time to time to keep it interesting. Thanks guys for another great video.
Hey @CarsandCameras - You guys want to know how I significantly improved the drag racing times of my kart? **WARNING: This is an IRREVERSIBLE MODIFICATION!** I removed the centrifugal clutch from the engine and modified it as follows: (1) Took the clutch drum off of the assembly via the snap ring. (IMPORTANT: Mark the face of the snap ring with a Sharpie and DO NOT flip the snap ring over when you reassemble the unit!) (2) Carefully removed the spring that encircles the weights. (Noting the orientation of the weights for reassembly.) (3) Cut off 6 - 10 coils off the length of the spring and slightly bent the new 'last coil' to form a new hook. (4) Reassembled the spring onto the weights. (5) Placed a *tiny* film of grease on the drum bearing, reassembled the clutch and reinstalled it on the kart. (6) Did a test run and rinsed & repeated as needed. (Sneak up on the optimal spring length because if you cut it too short, you cannot make it longer again.) This allows a higher engine 'stall speed' which is essentially giving you a MUCH more powerful launch. The same effect can be achieved by lightening the weights of the clutch but then *the balance of the rotating assembly* will come into play and damage the clutch or engine or both can occur. Shortening the spring, and effectively making it "stronger", is the most practical way to do this modification.
@@SchlobnDaHomies in that case dont let it sit in anything and drain it out before winter or you're gonna let it sit for a month or more because the water separates and in weed eaters,chainsaws, and weed eater type tillers it instantly kills the carb
Man ike is such a badass "mechanic" that guy has seen everything from basic valve float up to exhaust coming out the intake and intake coming through exhaust. He just like. Knows everything.
Hi Guys, great info. I'm a Briggs guy and what I have found and what I do is for the 5 HP Briggs, i.e. go kart engines. Is to shave off the decompression bump on the cam. This increases the sweep area of the cylinder. This increases HP by about 20%. In some engines you can just shave the end of that valve stem.
Hey how are you, can you tell me how to get more power outta my new predator engine I just got, I want to build a mini Car but I need it to be badass far as the engine
I just love to watch this guys. I am building my second minibike myself at this moment and the next one will have 4 wheels for sure. Got an original Honda GX200 with a 2;1 gearbox already waiting in the shed! Not sure if I'll tune it or not.... Got a big carb too, gnagna..... And BIG lawn mower tires (24x12.00-10) in the back is the plan, and to run at very low tire pressure. Plans plans plans, but no time.....
When I was a kid I had a tecumseh 8hp and I never had any real issues out of it we bored it, polished the intake and exhaust ported it slightly and used a 12hp carb with straight pipe and mine ran for many years no problems...
I just scored a brand new never used 5.5 snowking motor built in 2007, Four months before Tecumseh stopped production. So now I'm free to play around with my old 5hp without fear if I kill it.
This was a fun problem solving journey. I am interested to see what kind of power these motors can make. Everyone knows what a moded up predator can do but taking an unknown and pushing it is a cool idea.
I had the same go kart only red and no cage. me and a few friends worked on it with a carb held on by wire,a leaky gas hose,it starved on gas if you went left, and it took 2 people to work it one steering and one backward controling the gas best time of my life
I see all negative comments about the build quality of Tecumsehs... I had a lawn mower with a tecumseh engine that ran like a champ for 23 years. Throttle cable broken, rusted chassis, the last years ran without air filter... never a problem and never cleaned once the carburetor. After 23 years the handlebar snapped in half and the chassis was all junk. But the motor was still running perfectly! I had some fun throwing gravel in the crankcase and finally the camshaft snapped.
Great job. Note to people,make sure your bare skin is covered. I sure this guy felt the "sun burn " on his unprotected skin. Welding gloves & long sleeve shirt
On honda and predator small engines, if you bypass the governor, you have to split the case open and remove the governor components inside the engine or it will cut out like this. Only recommendation I might add if you are gonna remove the governor is to swap the stock valve springs out with stiffer ones so that you dont overrev the engine
9:48 there may not have actually been anything wrong with the idle circuit. Tecumseh's are really sensitive when it comes to idle RPM you could be off by less than 50 RPM and have the engine die the second you put it under load.
My Tecumseh won't idle right because the throttle plate shaft hole is worn out. There is a gap there that's letting air in due to wear. I've been trying to get it to work right for a week before I noticed that :/ but a new carb should be in today
We had a lawnmower with a Tecumseh 3hp motor. It was bought in 1988, and still runs to this day. Never changed the oil or spark plug, only put gas in it and ran it. They're tanks.
Basics inspection. True with any kind of small engine. Check the easy stuff. Put fresh gas in. Clean out the old gas. Dump the carb bowl out. Clean the spark plug(s) Check air filter. Then start it up with a correct oil level. That's before mods. Patience is rewarding. When your knees and back ache all the time, you get smarter. Pulling that rope once should be enough. Be glad if you're not too big and heavy. Your toys have to be bigger and more expensive.
Have you looked into making your own dyno? For comparative tests between engines you could just have a heavy flywheel that you spin and monitor RPM, plot the rate of change in rpm and it should show power
Careful with that PB blaster or whatever nut breaker you were using to lubricate the steering, it is not meant as a lubricant and will only work for a short time before drying out. You want to use actual oil or grease or lubricant of some kind, not a solvent based nut breaker like PB or WD40.
Spraying WD40 on a frozen linkage joint is no better than pouring a Bud Light on it. That's not WD's purpose at all. PB Blaster will do a fair job of removing the crud and making the joint free, as Butch says. But then a proper aerosol grease (like a motorcycle chain lube) will keep it clean happy for a long time.
my first mod back in the day was was to shorten the governor spring to tighten it my first mini bike was a Tecumseh I spent hours fixing it and was lucky to get much riding time at all when it did run it was a blast love the vids keep up the great work
man ur telling the truth-i had an old 60's rupp classic mini bike with a tecumseh 3.5hp...thing broke down more then ran! i just put a predator 212cc on the same one i drove as a kid-waiting on the throttle assembly to come in..but so far driving one handed with one hand on the engine throttle its already faster then i went as a kid-and im 215lbs now lol
Growing up i had a gokart similar with a 5hp Tecumseh engine. I think i’ve had two or three different 5hp Tecumseh engines and I never liked them. Always swapped them out with a Briggs. The last gokart I “built” and sold had a 212cc Predator with some mods. I was a bigger gokart than shown in this video, live rear axle, CVT, and IFS. Last one I purchased was a few years ago…250cc water cooled Kandi buggy. Just rebuilt the engine a few months back. Currently waiting for summer to bed line the entire frame
"It'll Be Fine" use's vise grips to hold on a carburetor - Me wtf that works =) .... Oh man you guys are still so true to you're famous quotes. Thanks for the sick video John and Ike also dope build off bike boys - sorry it did not work out in the end but hell the suspense of me wanting it to work is what made it a wicked video thanks again. ;) also Good Camera Work guys
That looked fun as f#?k !!! Reminded me of the time I put 16hp on lil 5hp frame go-cart; had it all painted looking nice but forgot to hook the brakes back up..🤦🏼♂️ Well when I fired that mother up it took off like a jet,.. me with one foot on the pavement and other on the go cart, one hand on the wheel.. it did about a dozen donuts, go it straightened out a bit after bouncing off my brother in laws 70sStingray parked in the driveway .. pretty much balls to the wall down the hill of the drive, around the curve and into my neighbors chicken coop. MAN !! What A Rush!!! I didn't feel bad about the vette, due to his dumb ass was who left brakes unhooked.😏it left a really wide skid from tire to tire, I knew he later buffed out.I was only 11 yrs old at the time but that day I got the need, the need for speed🤦🏼♂️😂😆🏎💨...
A friend of mine had a big go-cart with atv tires on it and he was messing with the cables pulled it and it took off wide open he was lucky they had this big orange fence to help with the snow drifts just put it up who knows what would have happened to it if that wasn't there they lived on top of a big hill so it could have went for miles maybe they should all have a e brakes be fun anyway
I wasn’t as lucky I’ve got a tecumseh single seater road boss with no breaks and ice on the ground straight into a tree the only good thing to come from it was the tree bent my steering straight
I loves me some "riggery"....... That there is some solid mechaneering / contraptioneering. Youngins pay attention to ole Ike, he knows what he's doing and if you learn nothing else, learn that you can do alot of tweaking and messing around with small engines without ruining them, regardless of what your Dad says......
Video may not have had the outcome you wanted, but its still informative and intertaining for someone just getting into small engine modifications in 2022!
This is the most classic cars and cameras video you guys have made in a while. I love it! I mean, vice grips holding on the carburetor! Thats what this channel is about.
Hey guys, this was a cool video! I am a home machinist who loves small engines and I am currently working on two of these Tecumseh OHH series Engines and modding them for racing. I am also developing a new bolt on carburetor and intake system for them. Once I have a prototype built I would like to send you guys one of my intake and carb setups to try on this cart if you are interested... let me know. I hope to see some more videos of the old Tecumseh soon! Thanks for posting this vid!
Hey guys love ur work watch all the time but I'm a budget builder. With that air box I just drilled a bunch of holes with a half inch bit to let in more air then u don't have to cut the air filter works on predators to
Mower Innovations Or install a Predator/ Honda and mod away. Another option: just get the Briggs 206cc racing kart engine; it is built for racing already and doesn’t need to be modded. Not enough power? Switch to the world formula version for 18 hp (:
Did y'all ever take the original carb off and actually clean out all if the circuits and actually clean out the tank? I would of thought that after y'all took off the bowl twice and especially saw water in there it would've been a no brainer to flush it out and use fresh gas. Y'all probably did, I'm just curious because y'all never mentioned if you did in the video.
I think they said they wanted to save as much gas as possibe. I personally would go all out and spring for the 50 cents in new gas. You only live once.
c'mon that's the new fangle water injection throttle body! Rooster crows in "That'll doodle doo her". You got all the bugs out of that old cart. Good job guys
Tecumseh actually pronounces it the way they do. I dont pronounce it like that either because it sounds ridiculous to me but im pretty sure it is correct. There is an old tecumseh technician video on youtube and thats how they say it.
I just fired up my techumsuck powered crapsman riding mower for the first time this season. That turd smoked like a house fire, but it still runs.. Starts every time... after you rebuild the carb and hit the starter with a hammer a dozen times. LOL
Had one of those motors on a very old kart from Tractor Supply. If memory serves me there is a very complex throttle linkage with springs. It would allow the throttle to go wide open but once it got to operating speed it would back off. My simple fix was attaching a string to the carb and making sure the kill switch worked.
There are extremely small air passages in those carburetors. Running such a sketchy air filter very well may have clogged them. If you take the carb off and as apart as you can, try to blow every hole that you see out from the inside of the carburetor outwards.Then take a multi strand piece of wire and pull one strand out, it might just fit in those very small holes to clean them. That's how I've had to do it before.
Those Tecumsehs suck, I had one, got it to run good Enough to sell, and sold it for 100 bucks. What do you know, a predator costs that! Much better engine!
That Tecumseh engine is probably thinking the same thing about you. "That mechanic sucks, what an incompetent guy! Hopefully he sells me, then I will likely get into better hands" Gotta say, couldn´t agree more... you´re probably better off using a cheap predator, that has the value as an engine as you have as a mechanic.
I would love a cars and cameras and red beards garage and quad ricers computer game to rag buggys round your house tracks and up your roads. top gear got theirs into one why not you guys
Always great uploads guys! Keep em commin....lol but plz try n actually do the free performance mods before and after next time or next next time if y'all remember lol...love ur channel!!
lmao i had the same motor. throttle stuck and didnt have a kill switch so i spent 10 minutes wide open around my neighborhood lap after lap. Eventually all the oil came out and it locked up. Thank god cause it was a full tank of gas
You should do "Cheap mods" where you get like a pz22 carb kit for like $25 off of ebay and other cheap "performance" engine parts and see how they perform with that engine.
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I did this to my riding lawnmower and i got the grass cut in about 7 minutes. Thanks
That’s sick
I laughed so hard bro
Remove the govnor?
Shill
Lol
It's nice to see a channel that still sticks to its roots and listens to their subscribers on what they want. Great video guys and keep em coming
Susan P. Davis I can guess what you do without going to the site. You take people's money for teaching them how to take other people's money!! LOL I'm all for free Enterprise but that's not what we call this!! LOL
Trent K - Nah, judging by her pic I’m gonna say she made all that money by being featured on a site that starts with P and ends with HUB
hilarious comment LOL I actually laughed out loud
I got a one wheel sprocket gokat but it pulls to wheels and video of that set up
too bad they straight up lie to its subscribers and takes advantage of their curiosity, all they did was clean a fuckin carb in the video and they didnt even show that! yet they labeled the video free mods to boost horsepower??? r they for real??? they cleaned a carb they consider that mod??? jesus christ its morons like this that give real mechanics a bad name didnt u feel tricked when u clicked on a video about modding n engine then they dont even show u how to clean the carb??
We fought carburetor problems most of the day, but it ran so much better in the end! I guess the best way to fix a Tecumseh carburetor is to replace it with a 212 carb!
Tecumseh are notoriously hard to tune, I've only met a couple people who can claim the hallowed ability.
CarsandCameras hay I was wondering if with this one or another 2seater cart could you show us how to make it a once seater and how to move everything to the middle?
CarsandCameras iii
I had this motor in my gocart back when I was 15 years old. When it ran right it was pretty good. When it had problems, it really really had problems. It was a love hate hate relationship. So I ditched it and got a predator 212 lol
CarsandCameras I love you guys
What I have always like about you guys is you don't stray very far from your beginnings. You change things up from time to time to keep it interesting. Thanks guys for another great video.
You guys should build a diesel go cart! It would we cool and very torque
Chris Uscilla I second that
Diesel shifter cart would especially be badass, make all the use you can from the low revs and high torque
There's a spring on your choke that when it hits bumps it shuts the choke.
3 cylinder Perkins diesel
That would be awesome, but air-cooled single-cylinder diesels are rare for a decent price.
Hey @CarsandCameras - You guys want to know how I significantly improved the drag racing times of my kart?
**WARNING: This is an IRREVERSIBLE MODIFICATION!**
I removed the centrifugal clutch from the engine and modified it as follows:
(1) Took the clutch drum off of the assembly via the snap ring. (IMPORTANT: Mark the face of the snap ring with a Sharpie and DO NOT flip the snap ring over when you reassemble the unit!)
(2) Carefully removed the spring that encircles the weights. (Noting the orientation of the weights for reassembly.)
(3) Cut off 6 - 10 coils off the length of the spring and slightly bent the new 'last coil' to form a new hook.
(4) Reassembled the spring onto the weights.
(5) Placed a *tiny* film of grease on the drum bearing, reassembled the clutch and reinstalled it on the kart.
(6) Did a test run and rinsed & repeated as needed. (Sneak up on the optimal spring length because if you cut it too short, you cannot make it longer again.)
This allows a higher engine 'stall speed' which is essentially giving you a MUCH more powerful launch. The same effect can be achieved by lightening the weights of the clutch but then *the balance of the rotating assembly* will come into play and damage the clutch or engine or both can occur. Shortening the spring, and effectively making it "stronger", is the most practical way to do this modification.
#1 rule for small engines/outboards/weedwackers etc...
STOP USING GAS WITH ETHANOL
(just my two cents there)
Great video guys 👍
🙌
Where I live we don't sell pure gasoline, only E10.
I'm lucky to live nearby alot of water so they sell it at most gas stations for boats.
Don’t have 0 ethanol... what would you recommend
@@SchlobnDaHomies in that case dont let it sit in anything and drain it out before winter or you're gonna let it sit for a month or more because the water separates and in weed eaters,chainsaws, and weed eater type tillers it instantly kills the carb
Man ike is such a badass "mechanic" that guy has seen everything from basic valve float up to exhaust coming out the intake and intake coming through exhaust. He just like. Knows everything.
Humble brag. He's so badass he problems knows what im about to mention. Smooth
That's simple stuff tho
@@nateb4543 aw
Hi Guys, great info.
I'm a Briggs guy and what I have found and what I do is for the 5 HP Briggs, i.e. go kart engines. Is to shave off the decompression bump on the cam. This increases the sweep area of the cylinder. This increases HP by about 20%. In some engines you can just shave the end of that valve stem.
Hey how are you, can you tell me how to get more power outta my new predator engine I just got, I want to build a mini Car but I need it to be badass far as the engine
put the old engine out of the miata into an off-road kart
Donovan Bryant isn't the reason he swapped it because the old one was having major issues if not feel free to correct me
Rhys Aistrope I never did watch the swap episode so I wouldn't know
No he swapped it because the ford motor he swapped it for makes more power stock and bolts right in
A Miata is just a kart with a body kit, lol. Take off the front swaybar links and offroad that piece.
gokartbuilder or tear the miata down to the frame and keep the steering/drivetrain then just well in some crossmembers and bolt a seat in
That's the same exact gokart I had as a kid. Infact my first gokart. That thing was fun. And was run hard. Brings back good old memories
I just love to watch this guys.
I am building my second minibike myself at this moment and the next one will have 4 wheels for sure. Got an original Honda GX200 with a 2;1 gearbox already waiting in the shed! Not sure if I'll tune it or not.... Got a big carb too, gnagna.....
And BIG lawn mower tires (24x12.00-10) in the back is the plan, and to run at very low tire pressure. Plans plans plans, but no time.....
When I was a kid I had a tecumseh 8hp and I never had any real issues out of it we bored it, polished the intake and exhaust ported it slightly and used a 12hp carb with straight pipe and mine ran for many years no problems...
Is it possible to learn this power?
@@MilesPrower1992 not from a Predator stan
I did this to my snowblower revs at 950 rpm 😊
and to my lawnmower
800 rpm😊.
All I did is readjusting the govenor rods on each engines 😊
“We wanna go fast”
Famous last words.
I just scored a brand new never used 5.5 snowking motor built in 2007, Four months before Tecumseh stopped production.
So now I'm free to play around with my old 5hp without fear if I kill it.
I wonder how difficult it would be to build independent suspension for a little buggy like this
Im warning you, when you do this kind of stuff you trade reliability for speed.Dont forget that.
This was a fun problem solving journey. I am interested to see what kind of power these motors can make. Everyone knows what a moded up predator can do but taking an unknown and pushing it is a cool idea.
I had the same go kart only red and no cage. me and a few friends worked on it with a carb held on by wire,a leaky gas hose,it starved on gas if you went left, and it took 2 people to work it one steering and one backward controling the gas best time of my life
How to fix a Tecumseh: Step 1 add gravel to the crankcase, step 2 run the engine at full rev with no governor, step 3 throw in trash after it blows.
Travis Piper 1000% agree, then add a Briggs, Hell their carbs can be missing the bowl and still run like a scalded dog !!
I see all negative comments about the build quality of Tecumsehs... I had a lawn mower with a tecumseh engine that ran like a champ for 23 years. Throttle cable broken, rusted chassis, the last years ran without air filter... never a problem and never cleaned once the carburetor. After 23 years the handlebar snapped in half and the chassis was all junk. But the motor was still running perfectly! I had some fun throwing gravel in the crankcase and finally the camshaft snapped.
Great job. Note to people,make sure your bare skin is covered. I sure this guy felt the "sun burn " on his unprotected skin. Welding gloves & long sleeve shirt
That go kart in the opening sequence had so much understeer from the power XD
Thank you! I love the idea of a regular budget build/ garage sale find, repair and run series.
Just gotta say, you guys have the actual best video quality on RUclips
On honda and predator small engines, if you bypass the governor, you have to split the case open and remove the governor components inside the engine or it will cut out like this. Only recommendation I might add if you are gonna remove the governor is to swap the stock valve springs out with stiffer ones so that you dont overrev the engine
9:48 there may not have actually been anything wrong with the idle circuit. Tecumseh's are really sensitive when it comes to idle RPM you could be off by less than 50 RPM and have the engine die the second you put it under load.
My Tecumseh won't idle right because the throttle plate shaft hole is worn out. There is a gap there that's letting air in due to wear. I've been trying to get it to work right for a week before I noticed that :/ but a new carb should be in today
We had a lawnmower with a Tecumseh 3hp motor. It was bought in 1988, and still runs to this day. Never changed the oil or spark plug, only put gas in it and ran it. They're tanks.
Go kart tip #1 have a clean carb lmao
Basics inspection.
True with any kind of small engine.
Check the easy stuff.
Put fresh gas in. Clean out the old gas.
Dump the carb bowl out.
Clean the spark plug(s)
Check air filter.
Then start it up with a correct oil level.
That's before mods.
Patience is rewarding.
When your knees and back ache all the time, you get smarter. Pulling that rope once should be enough.
Be glad if you're not too big and heavy.
Your toys have to be bigger and more expensive.
Have you looked into making your own dyno? For comparative tests between engines you could just have a heavy flywheel that you spin and monitor RPM, plot the rate of change in rpm and it should show power
The transition at 11:20 was SMOOOOOOOOOTH
Careful with that PB blaster or whatever nut breaker you were using to lubricate the steering, it is not meant as a lubricant and will only work for a short time before drying out. You want to use actual oil or grease or lubricant of some kind, not a solvent based nut breaker like PB or WD40.
True enough, though if it was binding because it was rusted/crudded up then a shot of PB Blaster will loosen the crud and free it up.
Spraying WD40 on a frozen linkage joint is no better than pouring a Bud Light on it. That's not WD's purpose at all. PB Blaster will do a fair job of removing the crud and making the joint free, as Butch says. But then a proper aerosol grease (like a motorcycle chain lube) will keep it clean happy for a long time.
WD40 has never been a nutbreaker. It has tons of uses but that is not one of them.
Keep it up fellas, this stuff makes my week! 😀
my first mod back in the day was was to shorten the governor spring to tighten it my first mini bike was a Tecumseh I spent hours fixing it and was lucky to get much riding time at all when it did run it was a blast love the vids keep up the great work
man ur telling the truth-i had an old 60's rupp classic mini bike with a tecumseh 3.5hp...thing broke down more then ran! i just put a predator 212cc on the same one i drove as a kid-waiting on the throttle assembly to come in..but so far driving one handed with one hand on the engine throttle its already faster then i went as a kid-and im 215lbs now lol
YES!!! MORE BUDGET!!!
I keep hoping to some episode hear Issac say, HEY Y'ALL! WATCH THIS!!!!!!
Growing up i had a gokart similar with a 5hp Tecumseh engine. I think i’ve had two or three different 5hp Tecumseh engines and I never liked them. Always swapped them out with a Briggs. The last gokart I “built” and sold had a 212cc Predator with some mods. I was a bigger gokart than shown in this video, live rear axle, CVT, and IFS. Last one I purchased was a few years ago…250cc water cooled Kandi buggy. Just rebuilt the engine a few months back. Currently waiting for summer to bed line the entire frame
"It'll Be Fine" use's vise grips to hold on a carburetor - Me wtf that works =) .... Oh man you guys are still so true to you're famous quotes. Thanks for the sick video John and Ike also dope build off bike boys - sorry it did not work out in the end but hell the suspense of me wanting it to work is what made it a wicked video thanks again. ;) also Good Camera Work guys
Tougher valvesprings work very good too. Got a gx 200 revving to 8k with improvised dual valvesprings.
Inspiring! I'm no mechanic,,but I've learned using non ethanol gasps much better for any engine specifically smaller engines
You dudes are like the more skids of go karting ! So cool guys
What a happy coincidence! I've been looking for some mods to do to my old engine. Thanks for the great videos guys!
8:50 what are you using to make the custom linkage to bypass the governor
Basic fence wire
Or coat hanger
You know what I would love to see? Ike and Jhon doing a street bike engine into a quad build. Like if you agree.
Bald tires are one of the unwritten rules of carting. Great channel guys. Me and my son are huge fans.
No comments yet?
Put some turf saver tires on the 200 shifter kart and ikes kart and see if the times inprove. For testing purposes only of course!
U guys have to listen to the chicken more the chicken is always right lol
WOAH JUST REALIZED THE MIATAS AHHHHHHHHH favorite channel I can work on my project miata and project go kart!
I had one of those motors on my go kart and it had the same problem so we put a Predator 212cc on it now it goes 30
In the first lap is sounded like it was about to die the whole time 😂 hence the carb problems
Great content as always. Thumbs up before the video even starts.
I appreciate the lack of time lapses. yall take your time. thank you.
That looked fun as f#?k !!! Reminded me of the time I put 16hp on lil 5hp frame go-cart; had it all painted looking nice but forgot to hook the brakes back up..🤦🏼♂️ Well when I fired that mother up it took off like a jet,.. me with one foot on the pavement and other on the go cart, one hand on the wheel.. it did about a dozen donuts, go it straightened out a bit after bouncing off my brother in laws 70sStingray parked in the driveway .. pretty much balls to the wall down the hill of the drive, around the curve and into my neighbors chicken coop. MAN !! What A Rush!!! I didn't feel bad about the vette, due to his dumb ass was who left brakes unhooked.😏it left a really wide skid from tire to tire, I knew he later buffed out.I was only 11 yrs old at the time but that day I got the need, the need for speed🤦🏼♂️😂😆🏎💨...
BlkiceMike wow that’s crazy!
A friend of mine had a big go-cart with atv tires on it and he was messing with the cables pulled it and it took off wide open he was lucky they had this big orange fence to help with the snow drifts just put it up who knows what would have happened to it if that wasn't there they lived on top of a big hill so it could have went for miles maybe they should all have a e brakes be fun anyway
I wasn’t as lucky I’ve got a tecumseh single seater road boss with no breaks and ice on the ground straight into a tree the only good thing to come from it was the tree bent my steering straight
Wow
Wish I was there 🤔😂🤣💪🏾To See👀It
I loves me some "riggery"....... That there is some solid mechaneering / contraptioneering. Youngins pay attention to ole Ike, he knows what he's doing and if you learn nothing else, learn that you can do alot of tweaking and messing around with small engines without ruining them, regardless of what your Dad says......
i don't run filters on Tecumseh till they blow then put a predator on it lol.
Video may not have had the outcome you wanted, but its still informative and intertaining for someone just getting into small engine modifications in 2022!
The rooster said it needs more speed
This is the most classic cars and cameras video you guys have made in a while. I love it!
I mean, vice grips holding on the carburetor! Thats what this channel is about.
Holy shit! I know Jason I used to work with him at Allstar years ago!
Thanks for all the great tips guys
How about you guys build a twin steering go-kart?
Yay budget builds!!!
Happy birthday, John!
Hey guys, this was a cool video! I am a home machinist who loves small engines and I am currently working on two of these Tecumseh OHH series Engines and modding them for racing. I am also developing a new bolt on carburetor and intake system for them. Once I have a prototype built I would like to send you guys one of my intake and carb setups to try on this cart if you are interested... let me know. I hope to see some more videos of the old Tecumseh soon! Thanks for posting this vid!
i am interested in this, did you ever get a prototype or product?
Great addition to your video collection!
Hey guys love ur work watch all the time but I'm a budget builder. With that air box I just drilled a bunch of holes with a half inch bit to let in more air then u don't have to cut the air filter works on predators to
Make a go kart strictly for burning rubber n doing donuts. Or a funny bike style drag bike to go along with the "rail"
i just got a free pred 212 still in the box.. cant wait to build a cart and i think im close to you guys. 30 mins from Greenville NC. great content.
Ike finally says “I wanna go fast”
Haaaaa. You bent the tab!!!!! Same way I did mine. You’re not supposed to do that on a Tecumseh. Live and learn.
PS. Those things typically are rpm limited due to valve float.
I got a pile of them. Good for tillers. Not so much for fast gocarts
Guys I like the way you two think
I love these guys, they're the reason I ride, the only downfall is that I'm famous in the police department, joking, but for real, the cops hate me..
Still here 3 years later, still love y'all.
Now open header jajajajaja Cool vid guys! You both are the best :-)
You can hear in Isaac's voice he wants to kill that guy sometimes but he just agrees and goes on with his day
That is awesome great helpful video
Gonna do all this to my sons! Thanks guys! Helped out a bunch. We got a ironton 208cc but bypassing the gov and doing the carb forsure!
step one: throw that pos tecumseh away
step two: install a briggs 5 hp
step three: call it at that.
Mower Innovations Or install a Predator/ Honda and mod away.
Another option: just get the Briggs 206cc racing kart engine; it is built for racing already and doesn’t need to be modded.
Not enough power? Switch to the world formula version for 18 hp (:
Ya Mumzhitachi fair enough, 2 stroke makes more power
Mower Innovations Briggs 350ex there good but there really small
step 4: give that Tecumseh to me so that I can hit you in the head with it.
Lightweight + more suitable tires = quick!
Damn Rooster was yelling " I told you soooooo " at the end about the carburetor,😂. 👍👍. Love these type vids, thanks
The cameraman with the stop watch phone sounds like Hank Hill and having that in mind this video is twice as enjoyable and educational
Did y'all ever take the original carb off and actually clean out all if the circuits and actually clean out the tank? I would of thought that after y'all took off the bowl twice and especially saw water in there it would've been a no brainer to flush it out and use fresh gas. Y'all probably did, I'm just curious because y'all never mentioned if you did in the video.
I think they said they wanted to save as much gas as possibe. I personally would go all out and spring for the 50 cents in new gas. You only live once.
c'mon that's the new fangle water injection throttle body! Rooster crows in "That'll doodle doo her".
You got all the bugs out of that old cart. Good job guys
add methanol or 190 proof to that fuel.
TE-KUM-SAAAAAAAHHHHH.....
Exactly lmao....like the native American people, Indians....lol te-kum-see....lol
THANK YOU Aimless!!! Geez do schools teach phonics anymore?
Tecumseh actually pronounces it the way they do. I dont pronounce it like that either because it sounds ridiculous to me but im pretty sure it is correct. There is an old tecumseh technician video on youtube and thats how they say it.
I have that same engine, on a manco frame. I have always had to re-adjust the idle after every other ride...
Great video guys!
Maybe thread lock would help?
Good Job guys those tecumseh carbs have been known to have issues but I will say they are pretty easy to work on and fix. Good series keep it up!!!
I just fired up my techumsuck powered crapsman riding mower for the first time this season. That turd smoked like a house fire, but it still runs.. Starts every time... after you rebuild the carb and hit the starter with a hammer a dozen times. LOL
Had one of those motors on a very old kart from Tractor Supply. If memory serves me there is a very complex throttle linkage with springs. It would allow the throttle to go wide open but once it got to operating speed it would back off. My simple fix was attaching a string to the carb and making sure the kill switch worked.
thanks for sharing, this was fun to watch :)
There are extremely small air passages in those carburetors. Running such a sketchy air filter very well may have clogged them. If you take the carb off and as apart as you can, try to blow every hole that you see out from the inside of the carburetor outwards.Then take a multi strand piece of wire and pull one strand out, it might just fit in those very small holes to clean them. That's how I've had to do it before.
Those Tecumsehs suck, I had one, got it to run good Enough to sell, and sold it for 100 bucks. What do you know, a predator costs that! Much better engine!
That's a good idea lol
Well, those predators do run better, but not as long lasting as something like a briggs
Predator or briggs
BlueGrass Adventures Briggs, every time
That Tecumseh engine is probably thinking the same thing about you. "That mechanic sucks, what an incompetent guy! Hopefully he sells me, then I will likely get into better hands"
Gotta say, couldn´t agree more... you´re probably better off using a cheap predator, that has the value as an engine as you have as a mechanic.
I really like this introduction
I would love a cars and cameras and red beards garage and quad ricers computer game to rag buggys round your house tracks and up your roads. top gear got theirs into one why not you guys
Alex V-i-P i would pay 25 cents for that as an app.
Fuck the gasman
Dylan Morse yeah
Hey I have this same moter do you know where I can get a air filter and adapter for this? Thank you
Always great uploads guys! Keep em commin....lol but plz try n actually do the free performance mods before and after next time or next next time if y'all remember lol...love ur channel!!
Glad I’m not the only dyslexic guy alive haha 😂
lmao i had the same motor. throttle stuck and didnt have a kill switch so i spent 10 minutes wide open around my neighborhood lap after lap. Eventually all the oil came out and it locked up. Thank god cause it was a full tank of gas
You didn't have a reachable choke? My boat doesn't have a kill switch either, but the choke works fine on my Johnson 8hp 2stroke.
Yes, budget builds!!
SMASH THAT 👍 BUTTON!
Go Karts or Gone Fishin no
I did!
Go Karts or Gone Fishin *correction SMASH THAT 👎DISLIKE BOTTON becuase this channel sucks dick
So much hate in the world..but it's funny how the haters watch and comment..lol
And it's button..not botton..
You should do "Cheap mods" where you get like a pz22 carb kit for like $25 off of ebay and other cheap "performance" engine parts and see how they perform with that engine.