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08-15-2011, 01:41 PM | #1 |
Not Yet Wild
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car keeps cutting out when wide open
I have an 04 gas club car with FE290 engine and it keeps cutting out when I'm running wide open and after reading on here i have unhooked something that i think is the rev. limiter ground and it seems to have fixed the problem so my question is. Why is it running at such high rpms. thanks for any help this is my first cart and i just got it yesterday. later I will be looking into making this thing go faster right now i gpsed it last night with 2 grown men it will go 15mph is that normal. thanks again for any help
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08-15-2011, 02:15 PM | #2 |
The Last Moja Morani
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Re: car keeps cutting out when wide open
welcome to BGW........12 to 14 mph is stock speed, a peice of advice for you......what you did was unhook the protection that keeps the cart from over revving and blowing the motor up...................thats why its there and what your cart was doing was normal when you hit max rpm the limitor backs it off so you don,t do any damage.................there are other ways of gaining speed but if it were my cart i would hook the limitor back up..................
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08-16-2011, 12:11 AM | #3 |
Gone Wild
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Re: car keeps cutting out when wide open
15 MPH is pish, Jeesuz H Christ on a bike would roll faster than that uphill even without pedals. Mine hits 30mph on 20" tires. You need to unleash the beast my man Zip up the governor and ride wild And when your engine goes "boom" contact Tom (Shadowman) @ ISMOKEDMYMOTOR.com. I'm bloody sure he'll help you out with a new one lol
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08-16-2011, 12:14 PM | #4 |
Not Yet Wild
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Re: car keeps cutting out when wide open
Something seems off. If 12-14 is normal and 15 is bouncing off the rev limiter, well, the glove don't fit...
First thing I would do is hook that rev limiter back up. Next thing I would do is follow the throttle cables from the pedal to the carb and see if it's been modified anywhere to make it faster, then when I found that place, undo it and redo it properly. By properly I mean to where it doesn't hit the rev limiter at WOT. That's what I'd do but Invalid's idea sounds more fun to watch |
08-16-2011, 05:29 PM | #5 |
What the ....?
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Re: car keeps cutting out when wide open
What the ....? Geez Chris!
First thing I'd do is, run it in maintenance mode to see if the Drive clutch is closing all of the way! It's a start! |
08-16-2011, 11:00 PM | #6 | |
Gone Wild
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Re: car keeps cutting out when wide open
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08-17-2011, 12:21 AM | #7 |
Not Yet Wild
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Re: car keeps cutting out when wide open
Fair nuff, Chris. I'm new to these carts but I've been working on 2 and 4 wheeled toys for some 30 odd years now, mechanical things just make sense to me. I figured the main differences in stock speed, aside from RPM variations was from inconsistencies in the VTCs.
Now I'm all for making things Batpoop Insane Fast so I get that but sounds like you've done that as right a way as it can be done and with eyes wide open as it were :) I'd argue that OP has done himself a disservice fixing the problem by removing the rev limiter, seemingly without any of the knowledge or alternate safeguards you have. I see it in the order of Tach > rev limit light > rev limiter > no safeguards at all. OP could get a tach but if it were me, I'd hook that rev limiter back up and adjust the throttle not to hit the limiter at WOT till I got the tach working cause I don't want to dump $1500 in to a new motor after I blowed mine up :) If it won't go fast enough for me within it's designed limits, well, it's time to change those design limits and go all Tim Allen on the thing. Can I fit a Ford 490 in a Carryall 2? There's a lot of room under that dump... Anyhoo, lots of good stuff on this site and people who seem to know their GC stuff, so if y'all don't mind I'll hang around. I will take that beer though |
08-17-2011, 01:10 AM | #8 |
Gone Wild
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Re: car keeps cutting out when wide open
I'm glad you see and understand my point Ecrouse. All things are not for all people. I like to have a blast on my cart occasionally, others feel no need to race to Walmart to attack the Geritol aisle whilst in the full and abject belief that the fat lady in the mobility cart with thirty seven items (all lard based) and steadfastly wedged in the "5 Items or less" aisle with coupons she clipped from 1977 will somehow, miraculously, find the last twelve cents in a purse stuffed with used tissues, spent chewing gum and a condom that last saw the light of day on a hopeful evening during the Reagan administration when she weighed less than a confused Whale on a beach in New Jersey.
But don't let me put you off. There are some sensible people here Chris |
08-17-2011, 07:29 AM | #9 |
The Last Moja Morani
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Re: car keeps cutting out when wide open
the one thing most people here will never get is that 9 out of 10 times with a golfcart yeah the glove don,t fit.......now you may never see this if you just own your own cart and its the only cart you work on, spend some time jumping from cart to cart gas and elec. then you,ll get my drift................they are set up for 12 mph stock speed but some go to 14 mph heck some go to 17 mph and never see the rev limitor......my old gasser goes to 25 completely stock before it knocks on the limitors door but if you have a cart no matter what speed its tapping out at when you here the 1st tap its time to back off................there are other ways around it........................
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08-17-2011, 10:24 AM | #10 | |
Gone Wild
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