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| Posted: Sat Jun 9th, 2012 07:15 pm |
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Shane Tucker
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It has taken long enough (nearly a year, but who's counting?). I picked up a Super 44a saw (very similar to the MC-10 kart motor) that I have been working to convert to a kart motor. At one point I got the saw to fire up, but it wouldn't idle down and raced like it had a leak. I tore it apart and replaced the gaskets and seals (the culprit was the flywheel side crank seal) and buttoned everything back together. Today I finally had a chance to fire it up and to my surprise it idled and only screamed when I opened the throttle. I am beyond excited. I have a lot of work (by my standards) to do to get it ready to go on the kart, but I thought I'd put some good news out there.
Last edited on Sat Jun 9th, 2012 07:16 pm by Shane Tucker
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| Posted: Sat Jun 9th, 2012 08:33 pm |
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Steve Miller
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shane thats awsome .!! if you can make any kinda mcculloch engine run .!!!! kart., saw., weedwacker., whatever .. your doin great .. Lol .. seriously i dont truly hate them .. if you need help with the clutch ill send you pictures of some i pieced together for stub shaft .. but you may have taper shaft though .??? i have stock intakes and reeds if you want some and small box with about 40 stuffers if you need one .. very very very cheap ..
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| Posted: Sat Jun 9th, 2012 09:59 pm |
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David Luciani
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Shane,
AWESOME you're on your way now!!
d
steve,
currently bill mack and i are building ten mc49'ds.
i could use ten stock intakes and ten stuffers if you can spare them.
p.m. me and we'll chat or just call.
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dave
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| Posted: Sat Jun 9th, 2012 11:15 pm |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10th, 2012 01:20 am |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10th, 2012 01:58 am |
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David Luciani
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steve,
don't junk dead blocks!!!
my buddy Rick Chapman makes these really nice clock trophies outta dead blocks.
i've sent him a few and there's happy guys who won them.
dave
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10th, 2012 02:03 am |
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Steve Miller
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herb., just counted theres 29 in the box... daves prolly gettin 5 i need 6 or 8 so i dunno .?? a few .??? you tell me how many you need and what youll trade ... and dont say nothin mcculloch ..Lol.
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10th, 2012 02:06 am |
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Steve Miller
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great now ya tell me ..?? i just threw away atleast 15 blowed up ,needled, rusted blocks .. tuesday .. !!!!
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10th, 2012 02:17 am |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10th, 2012 03:25 am |
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Shane Tucker
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Steve, I might be interested in some of your parts if you have any left. I'm also working on a second motor (1-51 saw 80cc motor) and need a stuffer and intake for it. Baby steps though, I've got to get one motor successfully going first.
About the clutch. This 44a has the tapered shaft like the karts. I had a gear welded to the original clutch bell, but it was a 12t gear and I ended up trading it away for other parts. If I can get another bell I'd have a 9 or 10 tooth gear welded to it. Until then I have a 9-tooth direct drive gear that I'm going to try.
I would like to see the pictures of what you did on the stub shaft Macs since that's what I have on the 1-51 saw I'm eventually going to convert.
Dave, what are you going to do with 10 49's?! Sounds like fun. Ultimately I think I'd like to run small duals on my Dart, but I've got to get one going before I can have two.
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10th, 2012 04:09 am |
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David Luciani
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well now hadn't really considered what to do with them yet.
we're actually gonna have 12 i hope when the smoke clears.
the ones with roached bores are going to get 9 ported and opened exhausts.
then off to terry ives where he'll redo the bores and will fit new pistons to the bore.
a couple may be spoken for as the so called stroker mc49 cheater motors.
my "cheaters" will have a clear tell somewhere stamped on the block so there's no real cheating done.
2 are going to Bill Mack for a trade he needs to do.
one goes to Mike everin and another goes to a customer i won't name but he's a really good guy.
the rest i suppose i'll sell or use.
i am seriously considering a few karts being set up as arrive and drive rentals for the mc49 class.
seems a good way to let new guys get their feet wet without a giant investment and so forth.
so far i have a early rupp abone,a bug , a fox satalitte seat box mount ,a kavalla,a neil kart and at least one gk800 i could use.
probably would rent a max of 4 per event if there were enough takers.
figure i should have four spare motors along for the just in case stupid stuff.
i need to get the legal crap all straight first as i can't afford to be getting sued .
just kinda thinking out loud i guess.
dave
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10th, 2012 04:10 am |
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David Luciani
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btw,
terry ives does convert straight mcculloch cranks to taper cranks.
call for pricing.
dave
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10th, 2012 12:24 pm |
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Ted Johnson
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The converted cranks from Terry are very nice. He does them on an exchange basis. I have one here for Charlie's Mc101D. TJ
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10th, 2012 12:32 pm |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10th, 2012 04:13 pm |
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David Luciani
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fair to good condition.
has some small gussets added to frame.
has decent paint and upholstory.
it's either been modified or nobody ever heard about the fox box mount suspension it haS ON THE REAR.
TOO NICELY DONE FOR ME TO CHANGE REGARDLESS
opps dang cap button.
dave
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