The old carpet was in bad shape and was moldy, so I went to the Home Depot and bought new utility carpet and cut it out to fit using the old carpet as a template. It looked and worked great!
Before, original carpet
After, new carpet
I also replaced the gas pedal because the old one broke while replacing the throttle cable.
Oh, I also replaced the windscreen cause the old one had fallen apart. The windscreen could fold down in the middle and was held together with a rubber seam in the middle, but that had deteriorated. I also installed a new rear view mirror on the top of the windscreen and a cool Ducati logo.
Cal finished the motor installation. As mentioned, the motor retrofit took 40 hours, much more than the original 4 hours quoted. Cal builds bikes for a living; hes legitimate and I believed him. It was a lot of money, but oh well. I drove up to Leavenworth to pick up a trailer and pick up the cart. We took it out for a test ride and man was it fast, and LOUD. I was going to take it back home and have fun with it for a week, but my dad had just gotten back home from Arizona and was getting impatient since it was still gone. I'd had it since January and he wanted it back now, so I drove from Leavenworth to Bellingham, dropped it off and then home. In all, about 500 miles that day. Here's a summary video of some of the work and also my pops and I cruising around Sudden Valley in it.
Some days I feel like Sissyfus; because I only have a small list of items that need to be completed on this golf cart, but they never get done or something always comes up. No matter how hard I try, it never gets done. For the last year or two, the cart hasn't ran. It quit running when the pilot jet got clogged, then I decided to swap the carburetor out for a Mikuni style flat-slide carburetor with a pancake style reusable filter for a number of reasons. I also decided to remove the stock gas tank and swap it with a spun aluminum external tank, install a new header and muffler, repaired the cylinder head since the exhaust flange cracked, got the wheels balanced by Les Schwab since they wobbled, installed an electric cooling fan in the rear, and repainted it again.
After my parents bailed again to their winter home in Tucson for the winter of 2016-2017, I towed the cart back from Bellingham to Seattle for some tear down and rebuild work. When I do projects, I rarely work from formal plans. I loath structured work like that and prefer to do it as I go with an informal plan in my head. I had decided what I wanted to do was replace the front suspension, resolve the steering shakiness, replace the secondary (rear axle) clutch spring with a higher tension spring which delivered more torque, upgraded exhaust system, improved electrical system, higher wattage headlight bulbs, connect the horn, and some additional engine work. I started with the front suspension by ordering some 11 inch coil over springs that I bought on eBay I think. They were basically motorcycle shocks and much more rigid than the original 30 year old ones. They also looked cool. The first problem I discovered was the metal sleeve inside the bushing of each shock was too smal
I also replaced the gas pedal because the old one broke while replacing the throttle cable.
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