ISO Subaru EX40 Club Car Precedent Throttle Body in Mississippi

[the_tool_man]

Originally Posted by Cartmaster

Failing that, just search ebay. There are complete new EX40 carb, electric start engines available for less than 500 bucks. All you will need to do is match a drive clutch to the crank. Would be a simple swap and removes any need to use existing electrics.
No different to using a clone engine.

I know that's an option. But if one of the aforementioned carbs can be made to work without swapping the whole engine (and clutch), that would seem easier and less expensive, and thereby more accessible to many. Someone's gotta go first. I was hoping it wasn't going to be me, lol.

[Scooter Bob]

Originally Posted by the_tool_man

Someone's gotta go first. I was hoping it wasn't going to be me, lol.

IT'S NOT YOU!!

DID YOU NOT READ POST #12 of this particular thread, which I linked to again last night when you resurected it?

So you don't have to scroll ALL THE WAY BACK to the last page, here is post #12!

Originally Posted by bthucknall

Sorry to bump an old thread, but I wanted to comment that it is possible, and in fact easy to switch these engines to a carburetor. I had a customer whose cart was flooded and it ruined the map sensor in the throttle body, when I went to look for the parts it was gonna cost 2500 from the dealer, couldn't find any used parts, this was last year and I'm guessing that this system isn't old enough yet for those parts to have hit ebay yet. I bought a cheap ex40 carb from amazon and had it installed with only slight modification to the throttle linkage. Wired a low pressure fuel pump into the existing fuel pump wires, and just unplugged the unused components and rolled that part of the wiring harness up. you would have to install a pull chord for the choke, but the customer didn't want any extra holes in the body so I didn't do that, the weather here is pretty mild and it doesn't really need a choke. You need the ecu so it will still run the ignition, but its not a complicated system and doubt that it does anything with the spark other than turn it off when it hits the rev limit. The cart runs well, with no hesitation and what seems to be more power, but it does flash codes for the open circuits of the removed components. The customer is very pleased with the cart, and the whole conversion didn't take me any more than 4 hours. Alot of that time was just fabricating a new pickup for the gas tank.

[the_tool_man]

Originally Posted by Scooter Bob

IT'S NOT YOU!!

DID YOU NOT READ POST #12 of this particular thread, which I linked to again last night when you resurected it?

So you don't have to scroll ALL THE WAY BACK to the last page, here is post #12!

Well it helps if I read it, doesn't it!? Sorry. Thanks for all the information. My CCP is at the shop. They're going to try cleaning the injector first, then replacing the injector, and if it turns out the EFI is dying, he'll switch over to a carb. I'll forward all this to him.