I was going to hop on the elite and do a nice 25 mile ride, i was going to head out to ArtFX and pick up my speedometer stickers i have been talking about for so long...
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Then i was going to head to a gas station, get a dollar or two in gas, then head over to "Brunke's small engines" and pick up a clutch and a few motor mounting built for my new go kart...
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Head home, call my friends, when they are on there way i was going to throw the go kart together, and trow a hand full of tools in my elite set. all of us where going to run down the road to a dirt track where they would ride the gokart while i took care of the speedometers. Then play it from there...
Heres what happened....
Left my friends house, made it about 2 miles and started to hear this ungodly noise coming from the motor, some sort of rattling, the top speed was like 40mph, so i rode out to my house, it died as i was pulling into my back yard. Tore it all apart to find this...
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Look! No top ring!
Its gone! completely! Its no where to be found!
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the top of the piston and the head.
So, i took the cylinder to a friend of mine who did a quick hone with some red neck tools. I had another piston i was going to use, didn't look that bad. totally usable.
So i put together everything, put the cylinder on along with the head, went to put in the builds. one of them was fighting me the hole time, it didnt wanna go in no matter what i did. well i went to take it out and thats when this happened...
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So now im at a total lost of words. i have no clue what to do.
Today sucked...