Bad news!!!!!
Took the kart up to MI this week end for some cool woods riding. Did a quick lap to check things out, then picked up the GF's nephew to take for a ride.
We wound up doing the same lap, hit the road heading out for a long top speed run and POOOOFFFFF!!!!!!!!!! She shut down.
I could tell it was WAY over-revving with that 39T sprocket on there. Not sure how many RPM it was turning, but it was screaming, and not really much over 30 MPH I would guess.
Got back to the house, found little compression by placing my finger over the plug hole when cranking.
The exhaust rocker had about 3/16" clearance instead of the 4 thousandths it was set up with.
And now turning it over by hand it gets REAL tight in one spot. Not sure what I'm going to find when I yank the head off yet. UGH!!!!!
Oh well, looks like it's time to beef it up.
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