Wednesday, September 22, 2010

The End

Unless something very exciting happening this is the last blog. It's been a blast restoring the cart and a blast writing about it. I hope that you enjoyed reading about my little adventure.

The final numbers are in and I spent $2450 (not including my time). I think that the cart might be worth $2000 max but that's OK I didn't do it for the money.

Peace and Love

Dave

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

FAIL 2

I continue to drive the Little F***ker as she is affectionately known around the community in order to shake out any problems before I take her to the mountain. I was about a half mile from home when she just quit. A look around the engine showed that the fuel filter was empty so my first thought was that the new fuel pump that I had fitted yesterday had gone on the fritz. So I walked home got Susie and the Yukon and towed her home hoping that none of the neighbors would spot my shame.
As a shot in the dark I thought maybe a vapor lock so I took the fuel line off and squirted a shot of fuel in only to watch it shoot out of the pipe some 12 inches down the line. It turns out that when I had fitted the new pump I forgot to clip the fuel line in place and it had sagged onto the driven clutch which had then cut a hole in the pipe.
Perhaps I should blame this one on the mechanic not the cart.