Scooter 3spd Chainsaw Belt drive

Step 8 Finishing UP

Now at this point you will need a v-belt. I think I used one around 54" long, I really am not sure, now. Remember you have a little play with the length and the turn buckle. I believe I bought two belts till I got the right length. Connect the belt around the bigger pulley, and the other end around the smaller one at the top, by lowering the whole motor. You may have to disconnect one end from the eye bolts to do this. Then reconnect the eye bolt and tighten. Fuel up and your almost ready to go. Oh, I used some of that fuel additive for weed eaters gas so they don't smoke. Smokeless, AHhh... This is a pull start chainsaw and one other problem I had was getting it started. You see the carburetor is upside down as well. So naturally the fuel wants to flow out. I put a shut off valve in the fuel line when not used and when starting, turned it open and shot a burst of starting fluid up into the carb. THEN, pulled the cord to get it started. Once it started running, all was ok. There-in that was the major-ist? problem I think I had. Wish I could've figured out a way around it, because it more, or less, had to be that way because of the direction I needed for momentum. Well, I think thats it. I will be around if there's questions.

Oh, this project came in at under one hundred dollars. A donated 20 something year old chainsaw, five dollar scooter with wheels (yard sale), two fifteen dollar tires (new), I think ten dollars for the used J. C. Penney bike (yard sale), used gas tank (had), bought v-belts, fuel line, starting fluid, brackets, screws, eye bolts, 2 pulleys and the plastic/steel epoxy. What a bargain, huh?

Oh and the answer to what happened to the Hub? Well the hub itself had oil in it and had gradually over time seeped out and got between the bonds of the epoxy and came loose while ridng. Very scary. Thats when I discovered that the little kids 12" bicycle wheel would work. I kept thinking I really am having to much fun with this and I gotta get it going some how again soon. And everything fit. Yahooee.... :)