Hi guys, from Australia

[E=mc^2]

Hi folks,
Just got a free pushmower, I'm thinking about mount the engine on the bike. The engine was vertical-shafted briggs 3.5hp, I converted it to horizontal shaft engine,everything just ran very nice. current have issues of vibration isolation devices, I found some vibration isolation on ebay, it's a cylinder-shaped rubber with screws on both side, I was wondering if this thing can reduce vibration? or make it worse? please let me know what you guys think.
cheers.

 

[Dan]

Howdy E, welcome.Uber cool and please post some pics of your build. The vibration thing is a well debated subject. Personally, I am in the camp of mount it hard and fast or you just end up with a paint shaker.But would greatly enjoy being proven wrong. I think it could be done but at great expense. Always makes me think of the tens of thousands of $s NASA spent on a pen that could write in zero gravity. The Russians used pencils. Dunno.

Where I live, vert shaft, lawn mower, replacement engines are really cheap in comparison to horizontal shaft engines. Been looking for a rt angle reduction gear for yrs just for this. Be really cool. Low profile rack mount.



But any way, great to meet ya and welcome again.