Lil Foot
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Equipment
1979 B7100DT Gear, Nissan Hanix N150-2 Excavator
Lil Foot (the truck) is getting long in the tooth, (24+yrs since I built it) and the carb has been giving me trouble.
I have found out the engine I put in (& the cart itself) are no longer supported or available from EZGO or B&S.
No rebuild kits or gaskets, and certainly no hard parts.
Almost no aftermarket stuff, especially for an odd model like mine. (GXT-804)
I did find a new Chinesium carb that is supposed to be identical, except for minor differences in linkages.
(we shall see)
My uncle in-law had the cart for 11 years, and when I got it back, I found it needed rear coil springs. (bent all to hell)
I remembered a wreck of a GXT-804 in a golf cart wrecking yard that I had tried to buy 2 or 3 times over the last 20+ years, but he wouldn't sell.
I called him and he agreed to sell it this time, and it had two good rear coils.
$500 and 150 miles later, it is home, and it is ROUGH!
It is complete except for the rear half of the torque converter, fuel tank, and a handful of minor parts.
The seat disintegrated on the trip home.
The the tires and wheels that were on it were worthless, so he gave me some takeoffs so we could load it. (and unload it) So far all (5) are holding air.
The main reason I wanted it in the past was to have the transaxle to try and build a shiftable locker for Lil Foot, so that will be a future project.
There are parts I may need in the future, (torque converter parts, solenoid, front springs, spindles, assorted tie rods, steering box, rear brakes, generator/starter, pedals, linkages, rear swing arm, and of course rear coils & transaxle) so I will probably haul it up north and park it "outback". (the start of my wrecking yard?
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