My PREDATOR 212 Swapped, FULL SUSPENSION Lawn Mower!

on this episode of Gambler spec I finally get something I've been waiting for for a long time and it's probably not what you expect here it is 19.99 Murray Walmart edition 42 inch riding lawn mower picked it up off Facebook Marketplace for 25 bucks and that's probably for a reason so let me give you a quick tour of what I know so far so missing the headlight obviously this tire is old and off the bead other Tire looks alright it's holding there it's got some nubbies on it so it looks pretty new uh deck obviously we don't need looks like it's in pretty rough shape we got no seat we do have keys so that's good uh so looking at the motor I realized that they told me it was missing the carburetor which you can see but it's also missing the intake tube and not sure what else was actually attached here you can see this linkage is kind of in disrepair um and there's also an air cleaner box that would sit on there um no battery you can see the wiring has been pulled out so my initial thought was let me just get a carburetor put it on and fire it up and then I can swap the pulleys and I'll be good to go well after I started shopping for carburetors I realized I was missing the intake tube and I thought well if I start investing money there um I still don't even know if the engine's good and then if the engine's good I still don't know if the transmission is good so my main goal with the lawnmower is to be able to keep up with these kids on their mini bikes and the go-kart and be able to do it on a lawn mower on a budget so we'll get started here I think step one is going to be taking off the stuff that I don't need making it lighter and then assess how we're going to make it go fast [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] okay so we're not done but so far this is the pile we've taken off um I got to make some decisions on this engine I think I hooked it up to a car battery and tried to turn it over and it really struggled to turn over and because it's got so many question marks plus I've got to get a battery plus I've got to figure out the carb and is this linkage right uh I just don't think that this is the way to go so I've got uh an idea in mind of what I can do so I'm going to go ahead and pull this engine off and we'll go from there [Music] [Applause] so we've got the majority of the extra stuff removed that we don't need the rest of this I think there's more I can take off but you can see it's just kind of covered in a layer of nastiness up inside here as well just really disgusting so I think next thing I know we got snow outside but I think I'm Gonna Roll this thing out and get the pressure washer out spray it off and then kind of assess my engine ID to see if that's going to work out [Music] pressure washed most the junk off it's looking pretty good next thing look into the engine so I'll be honest it is not the most creative motor but it is the ls of mini bikes go-karts Etc this is what I got this is a power rake that my dad just upgraded not very many people know what a power rake is I don't think but anyway it does have a predator 212 on it it's about four years old probably less than 20 25 hours on it in those four years so relatively new so what I'm going to do next is uh unbolt this motor from the power rake and then we'll bring it over to the Murray and see if we can't uh make that fit and see if we can't get a torque converter to set on that engine and line up so we can run a chain to the back so first impressions here um I was kind of hoping to keep this gas tank I thought it would be kind of nice to not use that one and use the bigger one but looking at space here you got the muffler which we can we can redirect that but then you're putting the hot engine right underneath the gas tank anything that's probably not a good idea other stuff the shaft is going to be tricky to get that between the frame rails with the torque converter on it I took this cover off so you can kind of see this is a 212 with the torque converter on it the chain does come out pretty close to where the engine is at there's only just this you know plate thickness so the chain will end up running close to where the engine's at but you do have these other pulleys that stick out with the belt so when you put this Hood down I do like that the pull string is going to be here we can clock this so that actually sticks out here in the opening which will be nice it does seem like though that we're going to need to bring everything toward the back of the mower because we're way too far forward right now the gas tank hits so we'll need to we'll need to make some changes there for sure I'm just not positive how we're going to make it work so let me take the gas tank off and just see what kind of clearance that gets us and see how far we can move potentially we could maybe clear out some of this metal there to let us come back a little bit further we'll pull out the gas tank and see okay so quick update here I'm liking where it's going I took this cover off the carb an air cleaner cover and I don't think there's any way I'm going to avoid bringing this and cutting this back because even if I did a you know like the cold air intake or whatever you call it filter here I'm still going to be hitting on this piece all this does Now is really give a little support to the steering wheel and then give a place for the hood to sit so I don't think I'm really losing much I'm going to come back in here and chop back um some of the metal there so that I can pull the engine back I'm liking where it's going I do think that we we need to slide still more over toward the left here because we want to have that torque converter and the chain coming out inside of that shroud so I'll take the angle grinder draw myself a line here and cut it back so we can scoot the engine back even more [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] so after cutting that let us move the engine back quite a bit you can see which is nice I think that's kind of where it needs to live I also took the torque converter off the other engine and mounted it vertically I didn't see anything online that said you couldn't mount it vertically the only issue I see is that it's got these raised pieces here that could interfere with where the chain would rub you could see the old chain would rub here we're obviously going to be going toward the back tire so I may have to trim that back off but I don't see that as being a big deal it is pretty tough to fit everything in but it looks like I have clearance to that point so I think I think that's going to work uh next thing I need to get a plate and a way for this engine to mount solidly onto the frame [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right engine plate is tacked in place for now I got the holes drilled to mount the engine up the bolts are just kind of setting in there to be sure my holes are close and they are close so that should be fine um you can see the torque converter fits in there it's got clearance I move back some of this uh metal just so that it's even further away from the frame and then I'll come back beef up these Corners just so the frame is nice and stable in the front and from underneath see if you can see it here um you can see the gear there bottom of the torque converter where the chain is going to hook on puts it right in the pocket of the frame which I think is perfect that'll keep it out of the body work on the top and also away from uh the ground my idea is maybe I think we'll put a like a separate axle or Rod here have the chain come and spin that one and then that one in turn spins the live axle in the in the rear so I'm gonna throw a few more welds on this engine plate so it's mounted a little more securely and then go get some Hardware to get the engine mounted up okay so we got the engine mounting plate all worked out for this to be able to put a predator 212. stripped off most of the stuff that I could and then right into looking at this rear axle so this has the transmission that comes with the riding lawnmower it's questionable not real sure what to do on it so I went to going looked into going to a live axle that means I would need the live axle the pillow blocks or the bearings the spindle and some type of a break so by the time I priced that out I was like 300 plus dollars to get everything I needed and so the project kind of stalled out well I came across this from a friend of mine it was not running and somebody tried to fix it took everything apart I think it was a teenage kid he said took everything apart and then couldn't figure out what was going on and then lost the pieces so it's just a parts bike now well the track width on this it's almost exactly the same as the lawnmower and again I got my my sprocket I've got my brake and I've got my axle and then it also gives me some tires as well so I think this is going to be the way to go I'm going to see if it's possible to take the whole swing arm and spring out of this and make it work in the back of a lawnmower I have no idea if it's going to be possible or how difficult so I think we'll start by just pulling this bottom section off and then pulling the bottom section off of the axle section off swing arm from the four-wheeler and then just see how close we are all right so with the body off you can kind of see the bolt for the swing arm is going to need to go up inside the frame there but it fits okay like I said the width is the same as stock we'll need to come in and trim some of this out make some room for that drum brake and then I really don't want to lift the back of the lawnmower I'd actually rather keep it low so my thought is this is the lower mount for the coil spring moves this way so that's a little lower mount for the coil spring so my thought is if I take this off the swing arm right here put it on some type of an extension and drop it down so the spring right now is sitting all the way up into the seat and that's not going to work so my thought is easiest way to do it is take that off and reroute it and drop it down pretty low and that lets me keep my spring nice and low so I can keep the center of gravity down on the lawnmower and then I'll come up with some kind of bracket or a mount up inside here for the swing arm to go through all right well this is how it came out so I decided the best way to do this was go ahead and just cut this piece off the four-wheeler and then I just took it was a little wider than the frame so I just put a couple pieces of angle on either side just to extend it and welded that to the frame and then here's my extension piece just a piece of square tubing out to the original shock mount and then welded to the swing arm and then these bolts are there was actually existing holes here in the frame I just had to make them a little bit bigger and then I added a little just a little you can see that silver spacer there to make it fit just right so not too bad mainly the part that I struggled with was just getting the height of this so the body can fit down over the top um so I'm gonna go ahead and put this back together and make sure everything still works but you can see now we've got the we got the spring I don't know if this is going to be enough clearance but uh we're gonna start with that that's the main place we're gonna hit is right there on the brake so this is what it looks like with the body back on you can see once you have a seat on hardly be able to tell that that's the back of a four-wheeler obviously the tires are knobbier but the size is about the same got a little skid plate I think we can clean that up clean it black so it's a little less noticeable uh but then when you look in under the seat you can see all the suspension came out pretty good I really wanted to go a little lower but let me show you the flex all right so I got the camera set up so I can show you the flex and you can see how much it goes down and then I'm hitting right there on that brake drum I think that's pretty nice that'll be pretty comfortable riding around I think if I can Notch that frame I can fix that bump and I'll just do like a like a sea Notch almost like a lower truck would be and have that go a little bit lower so that I can get all the flex out of it all right so happy with the way the rear came out decided I might try to see if I can make this front end work on the lawnmower also to get the suspension and maybe the steering I don't know about the brakes maybe the brakes I don't know anyway so so far I took out all the steering piece off of it took the front off I really want the hood to fit back on so it still looks original so now I'm going to take this piece off the front end you can see where I hacked it off here at the top and the bottom and I'm gonna see if there's a way I can make this work and the hood go on so making progress and making huge mess but I kind of got everything tacked into place using these pieces of angle this Frame is extremely flimsy it's made I think mostly just to be light obviously lawnmowers don't have a lot of well they don't have any suspension but they're mainly just made to go on flat ground so um I got the steering the bar that goes up to the handlebars I chopped that off I think I can probably fit a shaft that comes from my steering wheel up in here maybe connect something under here like a bar and then a couple rods to run back to the steering wheel to give me the left to right um I think the main thing is I'm struggling with right now is just how to reinforce it because it is such flimsy metal and really it's going to do a lot of support here um I can't tie into these bottom tubes very easily because this is where the motor goes it I mean it pushes right up against that front suspension piece like there is no no extra room at all so it's it's tough because the torque converter also goes here and goes down so I don't really know if I'm going to interfere with this I might have to just chop it off here but then that gives me no place to really support from the back I'd like to have a second mounting place in the back for this front suspension but I'm just not sure how feasible it's going to be so what I'm working on right now um is just getting some pieces of angle and support pieces for this front connection right now it can come off with three bolts on each side so that's nice it lets me pull it off to do some welding I'm going to cut some angle see if I can strengthen that and then just kind of work my way back into steering and these body panels are going on and off to try to make sure I'm keeping my clearances but so far it seems like it's at least possible all right so we got everything welded in place all the suspension is welded on here with these pieces of angle and then reinforced this piece with the piece of the quarter inch angle as well so it's probably not ideal if you're trying to drive on the highway but for uh silly go-kart lawnmower it's perfectly gamblished spec so I think it's going to work out okay I got the suspension changed to the outside holes I think it's going to ride just a little bit lower that way which is kind of what I want uh next thing I got to figure out is how to connect up the steering so I've got the steering shaft I think I want to keep the original looking steering wheel I just need to find a way to connect that piece down there with this here which is what used to go up to the handlebars so I'll be working on that and then I've got to come up with some type of a hood hinge that comes off of this skid plate here All Right Moving On so this is what I came up with for the steering at least for now so I took a piece of Steel welded it onto the top of this joint here drill a hole put this piece of Rod down through it the rod goes back catch this other piece of Steel at the bottom of the steering column this is from the original handlebars from the four-wheeler because it had this nice joint here with the rubber bushing so I got that piece of The Handlebar welded onto the original steering column and then mounted that back up and it doesn't turn super duper easy but it does turn probably would be better if I put some like ball joint heim joint type things in there but I couldn't find any locally and I didn't want to wait I really want to get this thing going so for now we have turning so we're gonna move on I think next we'll look at the motor I've got the Predator 212 over there so we'll see about getting that mounted up and then we got the new torque converter so this is how everything looks mounted up we got the torque converter on engine mounted to the mounting plate I took this exhaust which is off the uh predator 90. four-wheeler I really wanted to try to make it work so this was my best attempt I could definitely do just the piece of straight pipe or something but I really wanted to try to make this Muffler work I wanted it to be back here but it doesn't fit through the Gap here in between the tire so that wasn't going to work and I only had that much pipe to work with so Pie cuts and took sections out rearranged it to try to make it go down and underneath where the body's gonna sit but I want to try to fire it up now for the first time this motor hasn't run in a while so um I'm not sure if we'll start right away or not but we'll give it a try here tighten this up all right that seems fine switch in the front to set to on choke on gas on see what happens it seems pretty quiet anyway let's do maybe a little less choke [Applause] [Applause] all right hmm carb is probably dirty let's try again all right well it'll start gonna need a little bit of work once I get running a little smoother I'll put the body back on and let you hear a little better what it's going to sound like so putting the body back on ran into a little snag this exhaust that I had to pie cut like 10 times to try to get it to bend underneath this as I final welded it it kind of creeped everything back up so we're hitting here which we don't want to be uh mainly I think because of the heat transfer from the exhaust so I think what I'll do is take and uh I got a couple pieces this is like all the scrap I had left over from the whole exhaust system probably come in cut this and then lengthen it by an inch or whatever to try to get myself a little bit of clearance down underneath there uh but you can see definitely a sleeper look you don't hardly even notice the exhaust which is cool so the next thing I'm working on now I got to get some brakes hooked up this is the brake cable that came with the four wheeler initially still got all the same linkage there and my thought is uh front brake and rear brake so I'm thinking rear brake I would use a handle so I have one of these grips that is still in good shape off the four-wheeler so I think I'm gonna use that for my handle the only pipe I have that will fit that diameter looks like about three quarter inch is the old handlebars so I think I'm going to try to use these maybe cut off the bottom handle put on the top so it's a little longer it's got this curve which I feel like could work to my advantage um so I'm gonna try to mock this handlebars up as a handbrake and then hook it up to this lever which would go to the rear brake all right so this is what I came up with for my first draft here we'll see how it works out so I've got the brake cable I've got it pinned down with a couple bolts and just a piece of strap across and then I took the end of that uh cable and I made a hole in a piece of Steel folded it over put a hole on the other side and then um drill the hole in the end and basically what that does is ties into this handle right here I've got at the bottom you can see that threaded hole that's the pivot hole so this bolt threads in goes into that lock nut on the inside and then it pivots around the Big Bolt and then this small bolt here is what comes in and hooks onto the brake cable and then that strap holds it so you have some tension against it it's not ideal but it seems like it works at least for now came in and cut and welded this so that the angle was a little better you can see here's where I joined it together and then I have that new grip which should cover up this joined up piece so next step is going to be to just take this up clean it smooth it out and throw a coat of paint on it and then from there I think we'll start working on the jack shaft so here's what I did with the Jack shaft this is a cross member piece that was already here on the mower and it was about in the right spot to be able to use the original four-wheeler chain which would save me a little bit plus the angle wasn't going to work very well with this piece here unless I went fairly close so anyway took this piece of cross member here on the other side I welded on just this single bracket and then this is everything that came in the kit so this piece bolts on they give you I think I got the 18 inch shaft so I kind of cut that to length they give you the bearing the collar both sprockets and then the bearing and the collar on the other side as well so the way this is going to work I've got the torque converter set up here running this chain it's going to come back here to the smaller gear and then the bigger gear is going to be hooked up to the chain that goes to the back axle and all that tucks up under here just like this so you don't really see it and if I need to service it that's pretty easy to take out all right we got the Jack shaft hooked up we got the chain cut to length we got the engine mounted up torque converter mounted up they're just lightly bolted in place and the exhaust on so we'll give it a try see if we can make these tires turn for the first time here [Applause] [Music] [Music] dang got a little bit of slack in this chain you're gonna need to get a tensioner set up for that but this back one's perfect tensioner works just need to get everything tightened down and get the body back on sit rep so initially I planned on just running these four-wheeler tires and leaving the body looking old and Rusty until I kind of wore them out figured out the issues with the lawnmower and then revamped it later but this tire I thought it was a leak maybe in the valve stem but it's got a hole in the sidewall two or three really big cracks so I ended up needing to buy new tires I thought it would look really stupid to put new tires on the old nasty Rusty body so now I'm in it real deep so I'm doing something I wasn't planning on which was making this actually look good so I'm just gonna break this hole body down take off all the pieces I added kind of breaking everything down to clean it up and just slap a coat of paint on it so it looks a little bit better with the new tires and then looking at color choices I think I gotta go with red so work on cleaning this Frame Up I gotta reinforce a few places I also cut the notch a little bit bigger it was still hitting on the back brake so I notched that out a little bit more so I'm going to go ahead and strip this down get some paint on that and then maybe some paint on this we'll see we've made some progress here on the mower I got the frame all cleaned up in the same color just through a single coat of black on there so it looks a little better kind of a uniform color you can see it painted it all the way around got the motor mounted back up got the chains worked out to the proper length got that extra piece of exhaust added in that I needed and then painted that with some high heat paint we got the new tires installed looking sweet with like a street more of a street type tread looks closer to a lawnmower than what the other ones did which I think is cool plus I will be riding it on the street in dirt roads mostly so made sense so we got that all done the other thing we got yesterday seat came in the mail so we'll need to work out about for the seat there there's the paint in the back the brakes all hooked up to the rear as well that's finished and then yesterday I worked on this brake pedal it was really hard to figure out what to do here because when your foot sits here you hit the uh filter and so I decided to go low and make the pedal look real small so most the most the hardware and all the mounting stuff is done here underneath basically sunk the pedal down into the floor I think it's cool because it just makes the pedal look kind of tiny and not noticeable um I don't also I also don't think you need a whole lot of motion you're just moving you know this tiny distance I mean if you can do it with a wrist throttle then I don't really feel like you need a whole pedal's worth of motion so anyway I think what we'll do is I'll come back and put a little uh you know like a beauty plate or a cover there that can unscrew I had to make the hole this big to be able to get the pedal through it um so I think I'll take and and just kind of feel out the full movement and then get a plate that'll go over the top that you can take on and off if you had to take the pedal out so that's done um and the next step is going to be figuring out the break now that I know what the gas side looks like I need to take these two cables which are to each side of the front and I've got the matching pedal for the other side over here uh complications is going to be the exhaust which runs right underneath this side I need to try to make it look symmetrical-ish to that side and then be able to pull both these cables at the same time so I'm going to start looking into how I'm going to do that all right so we I got this pedal kind of figured out let me just show you how it works so I basically took a lot of the components off of The Handlebar brake and then pieces from this brake lever that I got on Amazon connected that up to a piece of angle iron so just like the gas pedal it's an angle iron with a piece of tubing at the bottom that gives the pivot for the pedal itself and then the spring on there to return it it's the same as the gas pedal the difference on this one I've got these adjustable collars where the brake you can see this brake cable will go through and then the cables themselves will stretch through into these holes and so as you push the pedal what happens is the actual cables move forward because of the orientation of how this goes and with the exhaust there I wasn't able to Loop it back around to where you just pulled the end of the cable so this way you actually pull the cable itself away or the like the sheathing away from the cable and that in theory should give me my breaks and then those are the two holes that line up up here on the top so now that I worked out the gas and the brake I'm just doing a little bit of Bodywork here trying to finish that up I had to get the seat Mount done which means I needed the seat so I got the seat I got this basic Mount done basically the way that it'll work it'll go through here cut some holes to access the bottom so this Frame bolts onto the bottom of the seat and then I've got holes in the front and the rear where this will come here and bolt onto the body gives me a little bit of a riser on it which when I sat on it it really felt like I needed one so I think that'll work out so I just got that painted up uh this is all ready to go and then the Bodywork is done on the hood portion and the grill so you can kind of see what that's going to look like I just went with the red kind of a bright red and then I'm working on some kind of Graphics here so Bodywork is next I gotta get this finished up get that painted red and then we can finally start getting everything bolted together so finished up with the spray can got the lawnmower body as good as it needed to be it's all one color semi-shiny so that works and then I went to the local skate shop picked up some grip tape that you would normally stick on skateboards super durable sticks really really well and I think it was five bucks a sheet I might be able to get two out of one but either way 10 bucks total I got this side all done that side I got the template ready to go so basically we'll just transfer that paper template on the back of the grip tape cut it out stick it on and then just come back and trim out all these holes here and then once we get that done I think we're ready for assembly all right we're into a little bit of a snag here I got everything installed the chain is nice and tight um I really thought that was gonna work I was gonna try to build in like a tensioner to hold this down the problem is when you put the body on it sets right across here and the chain wants to hit the underside I mean right now technically it'll clear but any kind of bump or stretch and we're going to be rubbing against the underside of that body and I don't really want to have to you know mess that up or cut it or have to Dent it or anything like that so the torque converter does have some different holes you can use to sort of clock it in the direction that you need so I've got it clocked here and this has worked really well um to get it set up so far but I'm thinking if I could just get you know even like a half inch more of clearance I'd be better off well as you go to clock this you run out of holes so I'm at the furthest one this way I still need to clock it a little more down so what you would then do is Skip to this hole um and that puts me almost straight down with the torque converter and then I hit into my suspension so I think what I'll do is take this plate off I don't feel like this is super scientific exact so what I'm going to attempt is to see if I can't add an additional hole on each of these that will allow me to clock that just a little bit more I mean this is this mounting plate really holds this pulley in place but I feel like as long as my bolt holes line up and I can snug it I don't think it's you know has to be exact so I feel like I can get it close enough so I'm going to pull this off and Mark it drill the hole as best I can put it back on and see if that gets me just a little bit more clearance under the body here all right so this is what I did with the torque converter mounting plate so I took a cup that seemed like about the right diameter and marked me a line between each of these gaps and then I took a caliper and kind of picked a point that I felt like was a good distance away take that caliper make a punch Mark drill a small hole drill a bigger hole which is close to the size of the diameter of that one and then do like the chamfer or whatever you'd call it there to kind of give you a place for the bolt to find the hole so I feel like they're just ever so slightly smaller then the other ones but I'm gonna go ahead and finish drilling these out and then we'll see if it mounts up on the engine all right so we got that back on seems fine I did have to come in and oblong this hole just slightly I think I must have either slipped when I drilled it or mismarked it by like an eighth and then I had to come in and flip this bolt around because it was hitting underneath here um the head of the bolt has enough clearance but the lock nut wouldn't so I just flipped that over and now our chain is going to be nice and low should be inside like these frame rails which would be perfect unfortunately I cut my chain so I'm gonna have to either get a longer one or find some way to extend this one but I'm gonna start putting this back together alrighty so we got some stuff done here we got the kill switch wired up so that'll be good we got the handbrake installed we got the gas pedal installed the brake pedal installed those are done handbrake seems like it's gonna work possibly maybe we'll see um I'm gonna need to come back and zip tie uh these brake lines that are right next to that exhaust and then they'll also be right where the tire turns so need to look at that next thing I'm I've got to do is I've got these pieces that I made regretting throwing this piece away this is where like the shift lever I don't know if that was the deck height or the gear whatever it was used to go there regret throwing away that piece because that would have been much much easier but I did make a piece that should cap that at some point I think I'd like to add like a cup holder or phone holder or something on it but for now I'm just going to paint it and then that that piece I made because it didn't come with one to cover that piece there so I'm working on the steering wheel now gotta get this installed and you can see that it's super super faded looks pretty bad so I got myself a torch here and uh I'm gonna take the torch and see if I can't make this shine up a little bit better pretty happy with how the steering wheel came out just a couple minutes with a torch and uh looks a lot better so happy with that one problem though as I went to reinstall it realized that by dropping this torque converter now down I've now interfered with my steering shaft it can't go high enough to reach the steering column up here so I'm going to come up with a solution so I thought I could probably add a drop down section with the steel rod um and then you know cut that straight part out and have it just kind of work around the torque converter as an option or I could just have the steering shaft be a little longer um that might work as well so I gotta think about that and how I want to fix it I've got those pieces installed the piece in the dash and then the piece here on the side definitely going to need to do something I don't really like the way that looks so I think maybe I'll add like some kind of vinyl or stripes or something on there I'm also going to come back and add some vinyl for the choke this is choke fully engaged that's choke off so I want to label that with some vinyl so it looks kind of like it would have come on the mower and then the kill switch I want to maybe put like a skull and crossbones on there I've got a design in the works for both sides of the hood so I want to do something there to kind of make it look like it came that way and then got a special treat for the back that I'm going to work on in vinyl but overall pretty happy with the way everything looks still missing the headlights those should be here today I've still got the the metal piece the backing piece for the headlight but I ordered new lenses because I was missing one and the other one was pretty yellowed but overall it's looking a lot a lot better pretty happy with the way everything's looking so next time you see it hopefully we'll have all the vinyl done and get the steering and chain worked out so we can be driving it [Music] foreign [Music] okay here we go take for a little Drive it's our nice choke lever super happy about that and pull string you can reach from the driver's seat almost brakes are terrible technically working [Music] all right U-turn u-turn ing is terrifying [Music] [Music] all right action shots foreign so that's going to do it for the lawnmower build a couple last notes Here I love the way the vinyl graphics came out a couple just subtle changes to the original I think it's kind of like a I imagine it kind of as the Weird Al or the the parody version of what the original was so change out the predator for Gambler spec logos I tried my best to get this uh same Murray look with the Gambler spec on the hood pretty happy with the way that came out um same with the choke and run vinyl and the kill switch vinyl added just a little bit of flat black to this to kind of break it up I like the way that came out and then I love my bumper sticker gets a lot of laughs um a couple other notes the steering um I did end up having to lengthen that rod and right now it has kind of a bend in it so technically it it goes and it turns but it's not ideal that may need to be addressed at some point in the future um other things the handbrake did not work out as well as I hoped mainly because it's got the drum in the back um and so when you pull the lever it's just more of a gradual slowdown rather than the dramatic grab that I was kind of hoping for so that wasn't working great and then the front brakes when you hit the brake to slow down the left side did nothing and the right side completely locked up so I tried and I tried to adjust it and to change out the linkage and to make that work but it just wouldn't work for me so I couldn't get the brakes to ever be right once you hit the pedal it would slam you to the right you're correcting to the left once you let off the brake throws you back to the left and it was just unrideable so what we got now is we wired the back brake only to the pedal it doesn't slow down great but it gets the job done so overall the steering is terrifying the brakes are almost non-existent and there's some type of a rattling noise that's coming from underneath the hood that makes you feel like the whole thing's about to fall apart but it looks amazing and that's the most important part get lots of thumbs up lots of waves lots of honks and that's my favorite part about the project but that's going to do it for me on this project appreciate you watching [Music]

Channel: Gambler Spec

Views: 158,486

Keywords: Gambler 500, car restoration, mini bikes, gokart, racing, overlanding, fabrication, automotive rescue, honda trail 90, adventure, custom cars, car modifications, trucks, moab, 4x4, crown victoria, p71, car repair, abandoned, restorations, roadkill, vgg, cleetus mcfarland, police car, police interceptor, how to, diy, dirt everyday, dirt heads, roof top tent, gambler, donut media, cvpi, scout, scout 800, battle vehicle, cars, race, racing mower, lawn mower

Id: t818OfYA6x4

Length: 50min 4sec (3004 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 11 2023