Lifan 118cc
- Thread starter racie35
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dont get a home depot motor or any motor thats from china.. find yourself an old school one out of an edger.. or something like that..
these china motors are made cheaply and if you over rev they break etc..
an older motor or even a older honda one will be bullet proof
16v4nrbrgr
Active Member
Honda clones are generally nearly as reliable as Honda engines themselves.
cannonball2
Well-Known Member
Lifan makes excellent engines.
my neighbor used to weld up top fuel motors that would throw rod's, piston's, cam's, pretty much anything that could escape. the welded up holes are called window's. if you look at most t/f engines you will see them under the exhaust pipes. being sooner than later they will hole themselfs.
i was on a china import site a few weeks ago, looking up lifan engines and they had a pic of the factory and it had honda lifan on the front of the building.
seems both are made in the same factory.
BarelyAWake
New Member
I've no idea about the utility engines (which have a very mixed rep at my local sales & service) but as far as I understand it, Honda contracted Lifan to make authorized replacement parts for some of the smaller Honda motorcycle & ATV motors, such as the CRF50, XR50 & XR70F... given Honda gave them the specs & are fussy about such, that's good enough for me.
The "mixed reputation" of the Lifan utility motors could be just a result of hasty assembly & shipping damage, the majority of repairs aren't from terminal mechanical failure but rather seem to be mostly loose wiring, substandard soldering, shoddy assembly, poor tuning & even sometimes minor components like fasteners missing... nothing like the Chinese in-frame kits ofc - but they do seem to cut a few corners to keep costs down, understandable given how inexpensive they are.
The "mixed reputation" of the Lifan utility motors could be just a result of hasty assembly & shipping damage, the majority of repairs aren't from terminal mechanical failure but rather seem to be mostly loose wiring, substandard soldering, shoddy assembly, poor tuning & even sometimes minor components like fasteners missing... nothing like the Chinese in-frame kits ofc - but they do seem to cut a few corners to keep costs down, understandable given how inexpensive they are.