Yamaha Golf Cart Engine

The cost of a new engine is more than the cart is worth in my opinion.

If your cart is a 1982 it is a very early 2 cycle engine. They stopped building them in 1989. The 2 cycle, reversible engine only went into the G1 and the Sundowner.

Be sure the injection pump is moving oil before dropping in another engine. An oil pump failure killed mine the last time. Three years ago a crank-up rebuild on my 1989 G1 cost $940 CDN. I decided not to do a third rebuild on the poor old beast, as I think the rear end is also showing some wear from towing trailers.

My dealer told me not to rebuild it: he'd sell me a newer cart, healthy, for about $800 CDN at the end of the season.

I'd bought an EZ-Go as a back-up last spring, so I put a trailer hitch on it and it has held up just fine.

One thing: what's wrong with your cart? Is the engine seized, or is it just blowing oil around the drive belt? If the seals go and the oil starts blowing out, that's a much cheaper job, under $300, I'd think. The trouble with the connecting rod bearing is that it comes as a unit from the factory, 2 piece crank, rod and bearing, for $300. CDN.

Good luck. If you need specific information from the G1 manual, let me know.

rodcros at webruler dot com.

Interesting about that seal..the engine go progressively harder to start...it was losing vacuum through the seal and once the new seal was put in, ran like new.

A bunch of us geezers at the Marina have G1's and take them on safaris over snowmobile trails and pastures in summer.

As the Judge says, "It is the only vehicle ever designed to be driven by a drunk." I'm not so sure I agree with that, but it takes a lot more than puddles or stones in the path to put one out of commission.

One time I caught my mother pulling a single-horse cultivator with the G1 to work up her garden.(My bewildered sister was hanging on to the handles.) Another time she towed heavy stones to a rock garden on a toboggan behind the cart. After that I had a guy build her a low trailer for it. She doesn't like the EZ-Go nearly as well, so chances are I'll find her another G1.

Looks kinda nasty and I though about painting it up but that would detract from it's patina.

Personally,I love it, as much as my JD...it breaks, I'll have another one the next day. Thing doesn't owe a penny of the $800 I paid for it.