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RE: Pull starting - Vince Rosanelli - 06-03-2017 (06-03-2017, 08:38 PM)MARKTomasic Wrote: I can barley get a foot of rope out before it kicks and wants to rip it out of my hand. Here is the timing write up from the Mac Manual... RE: Pull starting - Jim Waltz - 06-03-2017 I use a recoil starter on the mini bike with a 3-1/2 HP stock 580 West Bend (actually a NOS US Motors 580). I also had a recoil starter on my 3-port V700 West Bend in high school, and never had trouble starting it. But that was then. This is now. These days I don't much like using muscle power for starting engines. That's what God made batteries and motors for. Along those lines, I am attaching a printout from the old Forum on starters. Besides Steve O'Hara's always-excellent discourse, it includes my discussion and photos of how to create a quickie conversion for a "plug in" starter to v-belt operation. See attached. I knew there was a reason I printed out lots of discussions from the old Forum...... RE: Pull starting - steveohara - 06-04-2017 (06-03-2017, 11:30 PM)Jim Waltz Wrote: Thanks for the kind words Jim! RE: Pull starting - MARKTomasic - 06-04-2017 Ok now I need a new condenser is there any way cross reference them. Like one I can pick up at a auto parts store? RE: Pull starting - Paul Hunter - 06-04-2017 I always rope started my mc100 when I was a teenager back in the 60's, it was the only way I knew how since I never got to an event to see the real world of karting. Cut a notch in a starter cup, wrapped a rope with a wooden handle. Tried it again a on the same engine a few years ago after sitting unused for about 45 yrs. Got it started but it was painful. RE: Pull starting - Romero Llamas - 06-04-2017 This was the solution I chose. BBT starter. Not cheap. But compact, Light weight. It has a tip for the Jim Donovan outer hex clutch nut. http://www.bbtstarters.com/home1 http://www.bbtstarters.com/order RE: Pull starting - Al Hasenfratz - 06-04-2017 I pull started for a year or two. Finally figured out Mac's can be ornery. Sometimes light right up and purr like a kitten. Other times kick back and rip some meat off your fingers. Or refuse to run at all, until the race is half over. So, I fixed up a used starter, put a JW hex driver on it and it's worked out well. RE: Pull starting - ted johnson - 06-04-2017 Most of my buddies use a belt starter, but I will take my Coleman stick starter any day. Takes up less room in the trailer, too. TJ RE: Pull starting - MARKTomasic - 06-04-2017 Ok got it running one time. But it's flooding out whenever I try to start it. It's got gas dripping from exhaust and the plug is soaked in gas to. I rebuilt the carburetor and took it apart two times to check everything control levers flush with the floor of the metering chamber to. The only thing I didn't do is take the Welch plug out and clean underneath it. RE: Pull starting - steve miller - 06-04-2017 what kinda carb sir ..if its a small flat back set the arm .040 under flush ..try that .. mine all work good like that with low about 3/4 on final adjust and high 1 out final ..got to set carb when good and warm ..might be little lean when you fire it cold but I just hand choke it couple times till mine gets up to temp and calm,s down .. lol.. |