Club Car Cart

We do use it a shows sometimes when my friends
disabled Dad goes with us so its tractor related.
Buddy of mine has I think a 88 Club Car with the
Kawasaki engine. Guy he bought it from put a reman
engine it early last year, and an hour meter per
the warranty disclosure in the paperwork. Time has
expired on it, but the engine only has 16 or 17
hours on, and pretty easy hours at that, as I said
they mainly use it at shows. He has opened it a
cople of times I know of on the road. Now what its
doing is you can run it fine for a little bit,
like 15 minutes or so, then stop, engine shuts
down and sometimes, but not always, it will lock
the engine up. You can put a strap wrench, which
he keeps on the cart, and turn the engine
backwards a couple of turns and then it will go
again until it locks up again. What I know hes
done so far is to take both belts off when it
locks up to see if either the starter/genny is
locked or the clutch locked up causing the belt to
bind to the rear end, he says neither was the
case. He hasnt done anything to it in a couple of
months, but thinks he may need it in a couple of
weeks if his Dad can get down here for a show.
Anybody by chance run across this before?

Too tight of bearing clearance, will eventually wear in. But will take time.

Flat spot on the starter armature maybe that prevents the brushes from making contact?

Engine definitely locks. You know this has happned because the belt on the starter squeals when the engine locks.

I dont know, could be but you can almost immediately turn the engine backwards. If you turn it foward after turning it backwards, it hits a spot then locks up. Takes a couple of complete revs backwards to make it run again, almost like something is jamming.

Is it a hard metallic lock or is it just getting stuck on compression? Is the engine overheating causing the clearances to close up and lock it? Check the screen on the cooling fan for trash it might have sucked up.

I lost one engine in my Yamaha due to running thru the wheat field and it trashing up. And another to it suddenly burning oil and it running out before we could get home. I'm now putting a 10hp diesel in it.

The one time I did it, it didnt really feel like a metallic type of knock. In fact I though at first something was in the housing hitting the flywheel making it lock up on the air fins, but there was nothing there.

Had the same thing happen to one of our Briggs engines when the boys raced karts. The engine would lock up hard when rotating forward but would spin free in reverse. Had the sump off but couldn't see anything binding. Turned out there was a boss that broke off and would wedge between the flywheel and block. Had me scratching my head for sure. Finally figured it out when I popped the flywheel and it fell out.