Those tecumseh power sports engines were absolute garbage! I love tecumseh engines but I'll gladly dumpster one of the power sports!
Bought my first Predator engine.....
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If it only lasts a year you did alright. Put one of the Predator predecessors on a wood chipper and it worked great. never had a problem with it.
Yea they are. Primer bulb to start ( maybe). Then you got to keep pumping it to keep it running. And no carb adjustments other than idle.
Kind of what I was thinking. For the money these motors cost it makes you think twice if you'd even want to fix em.
The Poulan snowblower I bought a few years ago was hard to start no matter how much you pushed the primer bulb. I finally removed some sheet metal and found the hose was more cracks than hose. Been working great ever since!! I think the chinese never will make a good recipe for rubber products!! Has anyone ever noticed the short life span of wiper blades as compared to not too many years ago.
Mike
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The new engine definitely feels like it has a lot more power BUT it may not be a fair comparison. The HH120 was drinking oil even though it seemed to be starting and running well. The smoke cloud was quite thick at times. That's why my wife and kids went and bought the engine for me for father's day back then. They knew I had already tried a standard bore overhaul that only lasted a couple mowings. Boring was all I could do to salvage the HH120. I had to wait until mowing season was over to do the swap though.
The biggest thing I have noticed is that the Predator engine consumes about half of the gas that the HH120 did. I imagine that could be because that old engine was so tired too though.
Those engines might be the same ones, just different badging. Hard to say. Looks like a fun Kart, great deal on that NOS engine!
DAC
Grey hound and predator are different.
Greyhound was a clone of the gx200. The predator isnt.
Greyhound was a clone of the gx200. The predator isnt.
That's what I read too. There seems to be number of Chinese knock offs. Not real familiar with any of them. But at their prices it's hard to not at least look into them.
Late 70's had the changeable tines. Intthe 80's they went to a welded on time 'plate' that I've seen a lot of them broken.
I just tried ordering Pittsburg tire irons on sale for $5.99 from HF. They no longer accept International credit cards. Incredibly stupid IMO as I have a US shipping address but my CC's are Canadian.
ROCKAUTO got on board few years ago and now they even ship to Canada dirt cheap. I needed a part, local Napa told me 6 weeks as none in Canada. Rockauto had one in Wisconsin and had it here in 4 days.
ROCKAUTO got on board few years ago and now they even ship to Canada dirt cheap. I needed a part, local Napa told me 6 weeks as none in Canada. Rockauto had one in Wisconsin and had it here in 4 days.