Re: OT - Go-Kart

Posted by Gene Davis (Ga.) on December 03, 2007 at 18:27:58 from (70.41.83.210):

In Reply to: OT - Go-Kart posted by Ford Man on December 03, 2007 at 07:51:32:

One of the biggest mistakes people tend to make when buying Go-Karts is to not buy the best braking system available which is usually disk brakes on a live rear axle so that it stops with 2 wheels instead of just one. Some of the real high-end models have hydraulic disk brakes.
The warranty on kart engines was explained to me when I was a McCulloch dealer and bought some kart engines for sales purpose. The district service manager answered my questions about warranty like this: "When you mount it or pour fuel in the tank it voids the warranty, in other words the warranty is to the door, but not through the door!" Think about it. you don't see people who treat a go-kart like it was breakable do you? Having been around go-karts for about 50 years, let me make a statement. If you run a go-kart 1 hour with an adult driver you work on it for 15 minutes each hour. If you run it with a young female driver at the wheel you work on it an hour for each 30 minutes driven. If the driver is a young male; you will work on it an hour for each 15 minutes driven. I feel like I can speak with authority on this subject. Started with karts when years ago when we used old chain saw engines in the mid 50's. Raced them on asphalt and dirt tracks from early 60's to late 70's then have had children and grand children with 4 cycle yard karts regularly since then. I worked in the saw & mower business for years and was a Homelite & McCulloch,Poulan,Briggs,Tecumseh repairman for a living for a number of years. I beg to disagree with the guy's comment on the Tecumseh engine. They are just as good as your Briggs when you treat them correctly. True,they are a little more difficult to work on and they take a little more understanding.. The beauty of the Briggs is that everybody can tinker with it and it will still run. The GX series of Honda engines are expensive to buy, but are unequalled for durability and dependability. They have been so sucessful that the Chinese and Tiawan clones are as close to them as a copy can be made. The clones are cheap and you just pitch it when it blows and get another.

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