Fuel Issue...

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Use alligator clips or a jumper wire attached to the DF post (the one with the small yellow wire) on the starter generator to jumper the DF post to ground. Run the engine and see if the charging voltage goes up. It should run up over 16v at full throttle.

If it does that, then its very likely you just need a new voltage regulator. Its in the electronics box, pretty easy to replace. Make sure it has a good connection to ground.
If the regulator has a poor ground, it will not work properly and can either cause high charging voltage, or no charging at all.


Governor vs rev limiter.
Governor regulates the cart speed, this is all mechanical and consists of the throttle cable from the black electrics box, to the governor arm on the trans, and then the governor cable which opens the throttle lever on the carb. The governor mechanism in the trans alters the throttle when the reaches a certain speed. The zip tie trick helps to pull harder against the governor arm to basically override the governor and make the cart go faster.

Rev limiter is the black box on the front of the motor just above the oil drain plug, next to the oil filter. The rev limiter grounds the ignition coil when a certain engine RPM is reached and kills spark for several seconds until the engine speed comes back down below the cut-off point. This fails often and kills spark entirely so the engine wont run, or runs very poorly. This is quite often just disconnected or removed, since a new rev limiter module is around $150. It's a box smaller than a credit card with two wires sticking out of it.

If the cart feels "slow" the governor is usually what needs to be adjusted. A cart with a bad rev limiter is often un-drivable.