Small engine torque converter....

[Missourian]

I suppose I'm paying the price for never owning a gocart and jumping right into dirt bikes...but I had never seen one of these. My friend brought over a hotrod T-bucket gocart he was building for his kids and I was like "what's that?".

It's a torque converter for small engines.

I had no idea they existed.

I'm immediate started thinking bandsaw sawmill...and a host of other uses.

Since I'd never heard of them, I figured I'd share my newly discovered knowledge with you.

The one pictured is a Vevor Torque Converter from Amazon mounted on a 6hp tiller motor.

 

[Dekster]

Know of people who have put them on golf carts but beyond that, not the kind of monkey I have ever wrenched.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

I suppose I'm paying the price for never owning a gocart and jumping right into dirt bikes...but I had never seen one of these. My friend brought over a hotrod T-bucket gocart he was building for his kids and I was like "what's that?".
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It's a torque converter for small engines.

I had no idea they existed.

I'm immediate started thinking bandsaw sawmill...and a host of other uses.

Since I'd never heard of them, I figured I'd share my newly discovered knowledge with you.

The one pictured is a Vevor Torque Converter from Amazon mounted on a 6hp tiller motor.

They're pretty common.
Polaris SxS's use em as do snowmobiles.
The polaris has 100 HP.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

I suppose I'm paying the price for never owning a gocart and jumping right into dirt bikes...but I had never seen one of these. My friend brought over a hotrod T-bucket gocart he was building for his kids and I was like "what's that?".
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It's a torque converter for small engines.

I had no idea they existed.

I'm immediate started thinking bandsaw sawmill...and a host of other uses.

Since I'd never heard of them, I figured I'd share my newly discovered knowledge with you.

The one pictured is a Vevor Torque Converter from Amazon mounted on a 6hp tiller motor.

nice bugger welds
it looks like my welds

 

[Missourian]

nice bugger welds
it looks like my welds

Mine too...maybe not the world's worst welder...but I give them a run for their money.

 

[The Duke]

nice bugger welds
it looks like my welds

That exhaust makes me has a sad.

 

[miketx]

It don't look like no stinking torque converter!