3-Wheeler Repowered With 12-Hp. Briggs & Stratton

3-Wheeler Repowered With 12-Hp Briggs & Stratton ATV S Mark Rahn of Ellis Grove Ill recently sent FARM SHOW photos of an old Honda 125 3-wheeler he repowered with a Briggs & Stratton 12-hp vertical shaft electric start engine “It’s a tar-eating machine that doesn’t go very fast but has a lot of power Adding the Briggs & Stratton engine was like installing a V-8 engine on a motorcycle ” says Rahn “When my kids were little they used to ride the heck out of this machine and had a lot of fun spinning it around on snow and ice We mounted a straight pipe on the new engine that makes it sound a lot like a Harley Davidson motorcycle ” To make the engine fit they had to turn it on its side at a 45-degree angle and redesign the “oil slinger” in order to distribute oil throughout the engine They also had to make custom intake and exhaust manifolds “At first we chain-drove the engine straight to the rear axle but the driver had to be going about 40 mph before the centrifugal clutch would engage That was dangerous ” says Rahn “So we decided to chain-drive the 3-wheeler’s rear axle through a series of sprockets and an add-on shaft which gears the machine down However the machine then had so much torque that after about a month of riding and doing doughnuts we managed to break the frame in half - twice That was the only problem we had So we reinforced the frame and have had no problems since then ” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Mark Rahn 7342 Gum Spring Lane Ellis Grove Ill 62241 ph 618 615-6659; markrahn66@gmail com

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