I was looking at my Lauson the other day and thought, why couldn't a kick start be mounted on it?
Well...
Necessity is the Mutha of invention they say... so I did it!
Was truly easy-peasy.
I mounted the starter pawl cup onto my Lauson's flywheel, then placed my kick-starter against the pawl cup, found there was a little bit of play, so to make sure I had a more accurate placement of the kick start mount, I placed a plastic cap over the pawl assy. of starter which took up excess play, and then marked shroud (flywheel cowl) with an extra fine sharpie.
I drilled and tapped holes using a fine (1/4 x 28 tap) and mounted 4 1/4 x 28 short bolts (grinded heads down a bit) to clear flywheel fins (12) of them.
I still needed clearance due to Lauson fins being incredibly close to cowl assy. so I ground about 1/16" off all 12 fins. DONE!
works great! I even used the Tecumseh flywheel nut, as it was same thread as Lawson and was lower height than the original Lauson nut.
See pics.
Well...
Necessity is the Mutha of invention they say... so I did it!
Was truly easy-peasy.
I mounted the starter pawl cup onto my Lauson's flywheel, then placed my kick-starter against the pawl cup, found there was a little bit of play, so to make sure I had a more accurate placement of the kick start mount, I placed a plastic cap over the pawl assy. of starter which took up excess play, and then marked shroud (flywheel cowl) with an extra fine sharpie.
I drilled and tapped holes using a fine (1/4 x 28 tap) and mounted 4 1/4 x 28 short bolts (grinded heads down a bit) to clear flywheel fins (12) of them.
I still needed clearance due to Lauson fins being incredibly close to cowl assy. so I ground about 1/16" off all 12 fins. DONE!
works great! I even used the Tecumseh flywheel nut, as it was same thread as Lawson and was lower height than the original Lauson nut.
See pics.