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03-13-2017, 10:04 AM | #1 |
Not Yet Wild
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Keeping Club Car running in cold weather?
Have an 88' Club Car with original engine.
It was 10 degrees this past weekend and the kids still wanted to ride. Only way I could get the cart to run was to take off the air box and hold my hand over the air cleaner air intake (the stupid big black choke button is useless!!!). So to let the kids ride I just put a piece of masking tape over 50% the air intake: The cart did run. Good, but not great and did the job. In warm weather the cart runs fine. Does everyone's cart have a hard time in cold weather? Or do I just have big carburetor problems? Thinking about fabricating some kind of mechanical choke in the airbox hose for this situation... |
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03-13-2017, 11:55 AM | #2 |
Getting Wild
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Re: Keeping Club Car running in cold weather?
if carb is clean it sould run in cold we run them ice fishing in mi the reason the choke is useless is becuse it either not tight on the clamps of has a hole in the belows or the box .it works just like putting your hand over the spoot on the air cleaner
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03-13-2017, 01:41 PM | #3 | |
Photoshop Guy
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Canal Fulton, OH
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Re: Keeping Club Car running in cold weather?
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One other thing I saw with some of these older carts at our campground is the the large square airboxes (on the 1984-1991 carts) had burn holes in them on the bottom side from accidentally being set on top of the hot exhaust pipe once removed. The hot pipe melts a hole right through the plastic, and many times you don't realize there's a hole unless you know where to look. A hole in the air box will also render the choke button useless. The airbox on my cart right now has this damage, but I filled and fixed it with some silicone a few years ago. |
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03-13-2017, 01:51 PM | #4 |
Not Yet Wild
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Re: Keeping Club Car running in cold weather?
Does anyone sell the air box assembly? Or do I have to find a used one somewhere?
My square air box is fine but the flexible accordion tube from air box to the air filter is cracked in between the pleats/folds (previous owner attempted to patch with a load of electrical tape ). |
03-13-2017, 02:00 PM | #5 |
Photoshop Guy
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Re: Keeping Club Car running in cold weather?
That cracked-up accordion tube may be the leak that's neutralizing your choke button.
Nobody I'm aware of sells the old airboxes. Club Car used to sell a long accordion tube that would replace the large square air box completely (the tube would just run from where you have your masking tape right to the back of the choke button. Every once in awhile they pop up on eBay. If you're handy you could probably make a replacement tube. Here's a photo of that setup with the long tube in place of the airbox: |
03-14-2017, 05:15 PM | #6 |
Gone Wild
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Montville,Ohio
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Re: Keeping Club Car running in cold weather?
fabricate one out of pvc pipe with a short run of flex tubing,a trip to home depot or Lowes could give ya all the parts ya need
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03-15-2017, 02:53 PM | #7 |
Not Yet Wild
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Re: Keeping Club Car running in cold weather?
I had this issue with the air intake. It would only run if I let a specific amount of air in using my hand. I cleaned the carburetor twice and had no more issue. It runs great in the cold.
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03-15-2017, 04:02 PM | #8 |
Gone Wild
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Montville,Ohio
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Re: Keeping Club Car running in cold weather?
Yank out the main jet and open it up a wee bit ,about .002 with a welding tip cleaner
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03-16-2017, 10:10 AM | #9 |
Not Yet Wild
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Re: Keeping Club Car running in cold weather?
I scored one of the Club Car airbox replacement tubes off ebay!
The guy had 3 of them and they sold out within a day. Hopefully this will help my problem. |
03-16-2017, 10:11 AM | #10 | |
Not Yet Wild
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Re: Keeping Club Car running in cold weather?
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Did you just pull it off and hit it with carb cleaner? Or did you change all the gaskets? Remove the jets? |
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