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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">I didn't scour on trash day, but there was a construction site close by and the portable concrete mixer's 8HP engine grew legs and ended up in my minibike. I don't know how it got in there either, because it barely fit. I had the fastest minibike in town. </span>
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On 12/31/2020 6:12 AM fubog1 via Fot <fot@autox.team.net> wrote:
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ok so how many others used to get up extra early on trash pickup day and scour the neighborhood for junk reel lawnmowers <img style="vertical-align: text-bottom;" src="https://s.aolcdn.com/cdn.webmail.aol.com/resources/core/images/emoji/wink.png" alt="Wink" width="25" height="25">?</span>
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I discovered the same as Gary did with the Tecumseh engine on my Rupp go-kart when I was 13 or 14. After about a year of this the flywheel exploded, with the heavy magnet portion deciding to end its union with the rest of the lump. I felt a big impact behind my right shoulder just before the engine suddenly lost power. I was damned lucky that the chunk with the magnet (which must have weighed 2 or 3 lbs.) bounced off the steel tubing supporting the edge of the sheet metal seat pan, saving me from a serious injury. I found the piece about 30 feet away in the grass.
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On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 10:39 PM Gary Schneider via Fot <
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Glen, that's great! My dad built me a go-kart out of plywood and an old reel lawnmower when I was around that size or a little bigger. I discovered my first speed mod: it went lots faster if you tied a string to the throttle and pulled it open past the governor. Turned out not for very long though, a big BANG clang-a-lang-a-lang after a few hot laps of the yard. My first motorized device and the first engine I blew up. Ungrateful little hellion. Fortunately there was no photographic evidence or body cams to capture the guilty look.
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<span style="font-size: small;">ps- here's my picture in advance, the 1st racecar I ever built, my brother John is driver.</span>
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