One of the biggest headaches you will run into is an engine that keeps stalling and quitting. As an example I have two different snow blowers and they invariably quit during their operation especially in a really big snow storm! They will run fine and then just start sputtering and […]
Many of us have driven a car and turned on the cruise control. We will be driving down the freeway and suddenly see a cop and then say hey we should put the speed back to 55, so we throw on the cruise control. What we don’t really notice happening […]
Flames were shooting out of the carburetor. The engine was backfiring. The clutch had just broken. The engine appeared to be junk. After eight hours of working on this engine the go kart still was not running. Parts were breaking off the engine and it seemed as though much more […]
The white Ford van was packed full of family and stuff. The rear end of the van was so heavy with stuff that the front end appeared to be just holding its own. Up and down they went through the Kentucky landscape. The Blue Ridge Mountains were quite a site […]
The excited youth had just mounted his vertical engines sideways. He had ingeniously mounted it to a board. He had a simple belt drive set up for the go kart he was planning to run it on. He’d done all the things necessary to get this engine to run horizontally, […]
The insane family packed their 10 speed bicycles full of tents, clothes, sleeping bags and pillows. They proceeded on a 10 mile hike on their bikes. The bike trip started out uneventful. The day was sunny and hilly, did I mention hilly, and treacherous because they were riding on a […]
The bright eyed blond haired 11-year-old boy wandered out into his grandfather’s shed. As he stumble over tools and lawnmowers along with all the other farm equipment, he struggled to find his grandfather pounding on something next to the vice in the corner. He asked his grandfather if he would […]
The idea has been in the works for several years: building a homemade go kart for under $200. The father and son team had consulted every possible avenue, searching every internet site and web-blog for information on how to build a go kart. They even went and bought a go […]
