UPDATE TIME!!!
It's been almost a year now since I got my Go-4. I didn't do much to it for months at a time. Work, general frustration, and difficulty finding parts delayed progress.
The reason my Go-4 wouldn't start is because I improperly grounded the motor. The ground was supposed to be hooked up to one of the transmission bolts and I hooked it up to the starter. After solving this issue, the motor would make a horrid grinding sound after starting.
https://youtu.be/5-Aj_TVVAgYI was able to deduce that possibly I bent the flexplate when attempting to reinstall the motor by myself. I needed a replacement and began sending measurements to various gear and machine shops around my area for quotes. Someone on the Facebook group posted a parts vehicle for sale. A friend and I took a bus to North Carolina and rented a budget truck to bring the Go-4 back.
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I was able to get my replacement flex plate from there and replaced it in my engine. The motor started right up but there was a different sound, a sort of whining scrape. The original torque converter bolts went missing and I had to get replacements. I believe the new bolt heads are a hair too tall and are making contact somewhere so I will have to grind them down a bit.
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At some point I had to take it off the street under threat of tow because it was in the same spot for too long so here it is on a trailer. I took it to a friend's vacant lot and continued working on it there.
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I am now working on putting together a rebuild kit for my front forks. I've found replacements for all the parts except for 1 wear ring that may need to be custom ordered. I've been quoted $20 per ring making them take up almost 2/3rds of the cost of all the parts. I might just put an air spring under there like I've seen a couple other people do.
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On another note. I was looking for parts that I may need as well as any possible performance upgrades and came across this little gadget. Obviously I see this think and think "That's not how that works." but how do these companies get away with selling this crap? Do they just assume since it sells to the ignorant who aren't savvy enough to know better they'll never realize these are a scam? Somewhere in the listing they guarantee numbers and even sell these for various makes and models. If it didn't cost so much I'd buy one just to see what's inside. I'm sure it's just a couple of LEDs, some resistors, maybe a couple random integrated circuits.
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