Updates of things going on.
FE350
Waiting on the side cover gasket
Finally back together In the cart.
Video of it running. The clicking you hear as it is trying to start and when it shuts off is the CRS. Compression Release system. There is a clutch like system on the back of the cam that opens the exhaust valve slightly as it trys to start. You can't check full compression on this type of system. It should be 70-75lbs. Mine is 78psi. So that is good. It was 60psi when I first got it.
Its the best $15.95 I ever spent. Clutch used to engage around 900rpms. Now it is 1300-1400rpms before engagement. It really made a big difference taking off. And the clutch is fully closed at 3000rpms in maint. mode. I bought the kit from BU and going to put it in my daughters cart. And I am going to use the electrical part in Goliath. I want it to stay running.
Here are the pics of the machining in progress and the video of the difference it made. We took off up to 125thousands off 2 of them. This clutch was the worst! Look at the gap now.
This pic shows how bad this clutch was. You can see how far the belt went up. This was the test clutch. It has bad worn grooves it it. Now it preforms better than new.
Daughters cart will get up to 30.5mph @ only 4100rpms. Its about like having high speed gears. Very quick and very stable. The clutch modification worked great. Can't wait to see what the torque spring in the drive clutch will do.
Fe350 problems.
I had to pull the FE350 out. Found a problem. 4200rpms and the smoke bellows out. Found that the valve area is not draining the oil properly. It runs out the tube into the carb. I have to pull the head and clear out or bore the return.
The engine only has about an 1/8" drain going back into the block. And with the tilt of the engine because of the lift, it fills the valve cover up further before it starts to drain the oil back in to the crank case. So, at high rpms, it over fills the valve cover with oil and then dumps it into the carb causing it to smoke horribly till the rpms come down and it can drain back into the crank case. So to remedy the problem, I removed the head, side cover, lifter and cam. I ran a 1/4" drill down through the drain hole and honed it out side to side and now it has a 1/4" oval hole to drain. Cleaned out all the shavings and put the cam, lifters and side cover back on. I am waiting on a head gasket (and a few other goodies ) to put it back together and test it.
This is what my garage looked like showing how bad it smoked when it started dumping oil into the carb. I shut it down as soon as it started smoking. The second picture shows the drain hole I drilled out. I can't believe it had such a small drain hole before. I wished I took a before picture.
Well, that is everything up to now. My head gasket will be here today and I hope to put it in today or tomorrow. I may have a bigger engine yet for it. I will know more this weekend. It really needs a bigger engine. Or the torque gears back in. Its fast and all, but I still want to be able to go off roading and hill climbing with it. You know me. I want the best of both worlds.