cart no idle

[hotrodharley]

installed new carb because old carb had major slop in thottle shaft..
starts up ok but if i let off thottle pedel[take foot off pedel]then the cart dies..should it do this or should it sit still and idle like a car does;?
my first cart so have no ideal has to how they should run and work when running right..it's a 84 G1

[camaroluvz28]

These carts dont idle...shouldnt start running till pedal is pressed down.

[Mike Mac]

Hot rod, you need to take a few days, and read this whole Yamaha site on G1's. You have much to learn about golf carts and doing maintenance on them. Till you know what you have, and what its doing or not doing, you don't know what you've got, nor do we. Sounds like your buying parts you may not need.

Make the car run, before you put performance parts on it.

[gscalifornia]

From the factory the cart is set up to shut off when you let off the gas pedal.

They can be made to idle by disconnecting a wire on the passenger side rear fender well, but I don't remember exactly which one off the top of my head.

[gscalifornia]

Originally Posted by gscalifornia

From the factory the cart is set up to shut off when you let off the gas pedal.

They can be made to idle by disconnecting a wire on the passenger side rear fender well, but I don't remember exactly which one off the top of my head.

I'm pretty sure it's the black wire with the white stripe that you unplug to make the cart idle. You have to shut it off with the key then.

[hotrodharley]

Originally Posted by gscalifornia

From the factory the cart is set up to shut off when you let off the gas pedal.

They can be made to idle by disconnecting a wire on the passenger side rear fender well, but I don't remember exactly which one off the top of my head.

THANKS;;;this is the answer i needed..i can now move on to next issue of it slaming into gear hard.....learning as i go..can't learn anything if you don't ask is way i look at it..i now learned that my cart is running correct..i let off pedel and it dies..just way it was set up at factory as i learned from gscalifornia;;thanks for information..

[hotrodharley]

Originally Posted by Mike Mac

Hot rod, you need to take a few days, and read this whole Yamaha site on G1's. You have much to learn about golf carts and doing maintenance on them. Till you know what you have, and what its doing or not doing, you don't know what you've got, nor do we. Sounds like your buying parts you may not need.

Make the car run, before you put performance parts on it.

thanks for the advice..i've read everything on here concerning g1's...one reason i started this theard is because on here i read servial posts on how to get g1 cart's to idle;;;so got me thinking if mine should or not....had to replace the parts i've replaced due to total wore out;;drive belt was almost broke into;..carb leaked vacume around shaft so bad only way i could keep running was having choke pulled out;;replaced it it now starts and runs without choke..everything i've replaced was totaly wore out to bad to repair;;
put power clutch spring in because i'll be using cart to pull my dragster with..need everything it has and what i can get out of it for the use i will be using cart for..

[dylan schumacher]

no idle

[sho305]

The G1 actually is supposed to idle long as you hold the pedal down enough to trip the run switch. The carb should be set to idle slowly, not enough to move the cart. They usually start faster set that way.

All golf carts only run with the pedal down, a few work carts run all the time like a car. Most golf carts you have to stop the engine to shift gears.

A cut sheave will also help with towing, the HD kevlar belt might help too.

[dylan schumacher]

but if you don't touch the petal at all it shouldn't idle. unless you have a different cart