Buddy found an old 2 speed 5hp rider in the trash. it did run but was old enough where the blades did not disengage.
Which made it hard to start in grass. He used for for a year or so n I brought it home tonight.
Of course I removed the deck n
blades. I had an extra set of main crank pulleys off another old mower
but it was to long.
Nothing would fit or match so
I made them fit. Reversed the pulleys as much as I could. biggest on crank,
smallest on trans.
Bent the heck out of the old drive
pulley trying to get it off.
Used an old shock stud extender
to move my idler / tensioner pulley out.
7/01/04
Well I should of gotten to work earlier but I was successful at getting the fly wheel off. The clutch came off easy with a big hammer.
Few wacks n the flywheel was off. Cleaned up the points n re-wired it all.
It has a nice fat spark now. It fired up with in two pulls but I am to nice of a guy to run a mower at 12:30am.
I also had good sense to wire up a kill switch while I was at it. I should know around 8am just how well things turned out.
7/01/04
I was told this piece of junk rider I got ran fine last year. So I went ahead n modded the pulleys.
Went form about a 3:1 crank 2 trans and then I switched it to 1:3, but the dam thing wont start.
cleaned the points and it has great spark. clean the gas tank n carb.
All it will do is start for a sec then die.
It has to be fuel related, I think.
But dam. I went to school for these suckers n I have done everything possible.
starting fluid doesn't help either.
I should be doing donuts in the
back yard and passing cars on the street by now.
7/02/04
may spring for a new carb kit as it did run fine last year, it did about 12mph stock. I looked at the diaphragm and it looked ok but I have no comparison. So it may be worn. The long gas tube did have crap on the bottom of it but not enough to clog.
7/11/04
Its running after lots of work. The new problem was it would die as soon as it went into gear.
But maybe there was some kind of omen as when I went to try again today I notice the front wheel was about to fall off.
So anyways I fixed that and got
it running. Rigged up the carb so it was at full throttle and not governed.
I was able to get it into gear
and off she went. The seat fell off and I was only hanging on with one
hand.
The sucker was flying in first
and I could barley keep up.
I about jerked my arm out of socket
trying to hold onto it. If finally started doing donuts and I was able
to hit the kill switch.
Thank god I had it hooked up.
I was about to just let it go and hope it didn't cause to much damage.
dam it was fast.
2nd try with a new bolt on the
seat and the sprocket on the tranny shaft split in two pieces.
Looked some some pink cast sand
with a thin film of metal around it to make it look like a metal sprocket
but it wasn't.
Can't wait to drive it for real. Its gonna fly.
