Off Road John Deere

[Bran]

😆 So I’m gonna go completely to the left field here and hopefully no one gets too antagonistic about how unorthodox this question is, and know that I’m not trying to digress the topics from cars to 2 stroke engines, but I am super curious. So with that out of the way, I have a John Deere riding mower that I want to turn into a off road machine and have seen others do some pretty creative things in this area. So the first step I’m stuck at is how do I get it to go faster??? It only goes one speed and I have heard something about changing out a governor spring but I don’t really know. I cant find any videos on youtube that show how to do this. Can anyone help without being to ostentatious or laughing to hard. Thanks guys!!! :pinch: :pinch:

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[dan]

so your engine is a two stroke? most of the lawn mower modifications done are four stroke engines, if its a two stroke my knoladge of those on how too make them more powerful are limited.

for a four stroke engine there are a few ways too get more power, bigger carburetor, port and polish the intake and exhaust ports, straight pype it remove the mufflers, the govenor on most of the engines is located in the crank case according too my brother removing this allows higher revs but i caution you with a four stroke my brother himself floated the valves and well lets say the valve went through the head of the engine!

you can do a pulley swap the pulley too the crank is much smaller than the pulley too the transaxle, get a smaller trans axle pulley and a bigger engine pulley and that will allow more top end with sacrifice too torque of coarse. taller tires and wheels will allow more distance traveled with one tire rotation that will increase overall top end…

[Bran]

LOL I thought it would be more simple than that…I woundnt consider myself anything more than a an under glorified lube tech or brake specialist. Maybe I’ll try that as a side project in school. thanks for the input tho!!!![quote=”13aceofspades13″ post=107028]so your engine is a two stroke? most of the lawn mower modifications done are four stroke engines, if its a two stroke my knoladge of those on how too make them more powerful are limited.

for a four stroke engine there are a few ways too get more power, bigger carburetor, port and polish the intake and exhaust ports, straight pype it remove the mufflers, the govenor on most of the engines is located in the crank case according too my brother removing this allows higher revs but i caution you with a four stroke my brother himself floated the valves and well lets say the valve went through the head of the engine!

you can do a pulley swap the pulley too the crank is much smaller than the pulley too the transaxle, get a smaller trans axle pulley and a bigger engine pulley and that will allow more top end with sacrifice too torque of coarse. taller tires and wheels will allow more distance traveled with one tire rotation that will increase overall top end…[/quote]

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