We Put an ENGINE on a TRICYCLE! So Cool!

Based on the true story of where it all began. When Taryl was in 4th grade he put an engine on a tricycle! He didn't realize it at the time, but that would be the beginning to his lengthy career in small engine repair. Here's the true story as well as how he did it and also the tricycle in action! Check this bad boy out and be sure to share it with your friends! And as always, There's Your Dinner!!
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[@rdaw33]

I love it!!!!.......Reminded me that in the 60's, I build a wood framed three wheeled go cart. Rear axle ran direct in the 2x4 frame rails, one wheel drive, one wheel brake, front of a bike frame bolted to the center front with handle bars, shortened forks with a lawn mower wheel (went through lots of them!).....engine was made to slide forward to tighten belt to go (acted as a clutch). Broke down a lot but had several farmers junk piles for spare parts, not very fast, but had the time of my life. Later I traded an electric guitar that I was lousy at playing for a real metal go cart, man, I was on the top of the world!!!!!.....Had a ball on the rural roads!!!!!!!!!!........I think both you and I were crazy as kids, but I am sure neither of us would have traded all the fun for anything!!!!!!

[@frogfoot198]

My cousin Tommy, also my next door neighbor, took apart his dad's push mower when he was in the fourth grade. There were pieces of that engine everywhere on a blanket. Stripped down to the piston. I told him his dad was going to whip his butt when he got home but Tommy said he would have the mower back together by that time. I was thinking to myself "yeah right". About 4 hours later I heard Tommy start that engine and it sounded great and ran better than it did before he tore it down. And the best part...there were no extra parts or hardware laying around. Some people have lots of talent even at young ages. My hats off to you who do.

[@irvinslagter8298]

Great show!! I put a 3 1/2 hp Briggs and Scratton on a Montgomery Wards bicycle when I was a teenager. Borrowed the motor off of dads grain auger, belt tightener pulley off the corn planter, and a v-belt pulley that bolted to the spokes from White's bicycle shop , and number nine wire and a spring for the belt tightener. I mounted the motor over the back wheel on a piece of oak. It would run 35 mph!! What a blast. And my dear old dad didn't ring my neck, bless his heart!

[@nickigilbert7295]

I'm on my daughter's KZbin account. I remember taking things apart when I was very young. I just wanted to see what made things tick. I remember one time taking a scale apart. I'm suprised it still worked after that. There were a lot of things that didn't make it back together. When I was about 8 my dad told me that I needed to pay attention where the parts go when I took things apart. I think at that time he knew that I wasn't going to stop taking things apart. Lol. After that conversation my put back together rate went from about 50% to 90%. There were a lot of things that I wanted to build, but didn't have a welder, chop saw, or allen wrenches. I got my first welder about 13 years ago. I bought a brand new wire welder. I'm in my second childhood now. I have a Coast to Coast riding mower that I put an opposed 16 horse Briggs. I did a pulley swap on it. It went 12 mph. I did some more modifications to it. It then went 18 mph. I did one more modification and it went 40 mph. That's with the governor still hooked up. It took me about two years to solve the steering issue. I tried to align the best I could many times with no avail. Then one day when I was walking by the rider I noticed the problem. The caster was way off. I drilled out the factory spot welds for the front axle housing and readjusted the caster. My welder welded it in place. It was a complete different machine. I eventually slowed it down to 24 mph. I used it to pull a yard card full of grass/weeds to the dump. With the steeper gearing it was more user friendly with the extra weight. The factory brake didn't last long. So I cut a small piece off of a brake shoe for a car and fitted it to the drive belt. It has the 6 speed transmission plus the varidrive. So the varidrive does most of the stopping and the piece of the brake shoe only rubs the belt to stop when it almost stopped anyway. I hasn't worn the belt yet. I've done some riding mower modifications as well with the snowblowers. I have an older 12 hp Murray that runs on E85. I have 2 RER Snapper riders that run on E85. I've tried to do the same with a couple of push mowers, but it wasn't worth the effort. I mow in the summer and move snow in the winter. Plus I work on people's mowers and snowblowers. I even work on a competitor's mower. I'm small scale compared to you, but it pays the bills.

[@JamesBrown-cx3xf]

Back in the early 70s i used to race my go cart with a big chain saw engine all around the neighborhoods , my friends on there mini bikes couldn’t catch me , cops would come down the street and we all went in different directions . The never caught any of us man that was fun , haven’t thought about that in 40 years thanks Taryl that was fun !

[@Paleoman52]

Coolest Taryl video ever. How many of us did stuff like this when we were kids? I loved this one. I hope you didn't get in too much trouble, LOL!

[@adamdnewman]

Look where it got him Success

[@NCMOUNTAINMAN]

Uncle Bob made us a go cart out of an old wooden ladder for a frame and a 1 Hp washing machine motor. Rope steering. Good Times.

[@starcarrier1874]

2021 Academy nomination for: Special Visual Make-Up Effects, Best Screen Play - Historical Documentary, Best Special Effects-Motorized Vehicles since Mad Max. Winner of the “Frickin Eddy Munster Award” for Best Story. Nomination: Best Supporting Creep in a Video- Faryl. You guys are the best!

[@profwaldo]

Excellent vid and story Taryl !!! Back in 1965 I wanted to make a fan driven snow sled. I took a similar engine offa' my neighbor's self-propelled reel type mower... the thing was just sittin' in his garage doin' nuthin'. lol I got the 30 inch plastic fan blade offa' big 'ol free-standing restaurant fan I found in the basement of Hering's restaurant which had the same size shaft as my engine - 1/2". I cut the arms and back offa' antique high-chair.(got in trouble for that) I bolted the engine to the chair seat and attached the blade. I tested it before mounting to the sled. My left hand holding the head of the engine I pulled the rope with my right hand and it started right up and the fan immediately blew the whole works over with the fan blade somehow missing my left arm as it went by. The fan blade blew to pieces as it hit the ground. End of experiment. Moved on to build a gokart with the engine, which of course had no brakes but that's another story. lol Thanks for the memories Taryl !!!

[@mg8849]

Wow. Your brilliance and ingenuity at that age is remarkable.

[@kevinhaley6776]

Your dad had to be mad but so proud at the same time i bet he had all kinds of stuff missing

[@dennisward1361]

That's what I'm talking about ,we did cool stuff when we were kids back in the day .Kids now a days have no idea what real fun was like . Thanks ,brought back lots of memories .

[@raymondsmith6504]

Loved the period “pop top” Pepsi can in the background!

[@richbulthuis7175]

Taryl awesome story brings back the same memories messing around with mini bikes, tractor, love it!!😎👍

[@NebukedNezzer]

the little half horse briggs you have is just like the one I used to make a motor bike back in the 50s(salvaged it off an old reel type mower). I still have the engine in my storage shed. loved this project and story.

[@killhacker5776]

LOVE THE SKITS!!!!!!! Love the attention to detail in the accuracy of the story.

[@eugenepolan1750]

My buddies and I ran a Briggs 2 HP without the governor on the first go-kart and minibike we built. Never had any issues. When I convinced another buddy to eliminate the governor on his Tecumseh 3.5 HP within a week he threw the rod. Same guy who, a couple years later, we convinced it was OK to hold his Chevy II Powerglide in low up to 60 MPH. Guess who threw a rod. Then we urged him to do Neutral Slam starts with his Mercury. Within a week, he tore some teeth off the Mercury's differential gears. See, it's not always wise to be a good listener.

[@colinklang]

Reminds me of when I was a kid. Always taking stuff apart trying to fix it, figure it out, or rebuild it. Always tinkering around with things. My neighbor was a mechanic and he worked out of a shop in his garage. I was over there all the time watching him work on cars. I still love anything with an engine!!

[@colinklang]

@@benjurqunov nice!

[@michaelglynn2638]

No computer games just good adventurous fun. Love it👍

[@MrWayneploof]

Back when i was in 4th grade and for years my dad worked construction and was gone all week most of the time. I got into a lot of stuff like this i learn to weld and use torch at a very young age on my own i can still remember welding on something and looking up and my dad was standing there he come home early that week. looks like you had a good time as a young kid also. good video

[@coffeebotography]

I learned more from this video than the last 10 by Scotty Kilmer.

[@connorssmallengines6663]

Haha, he just clickbait

[@cliffpalermo]

Oh no you spoke the name hope the youtube doesn't add to my feed.

[@chainsawmike01]

I cant stand that guy... and KZbin keeps adding him back to my feed.

[@andrewnorris1514]

@@chainsawmike01 I know what ya mean.

[@kailarsen6148]

@@chainsawmike01 SK may be knowledgeable, and he obviously has lot's of fans, but his high-pitched hollering voice and all that spastic arm flailing combined with the jumpy video editing is just too much "shtick" for me to watch.

[@mrfrank4583]

The ingenuity and creativity necessary to build this especially in the 4th grade without being able to "Google" is extraordinary!! I would be interested to know if he received any accolades when it was completed and actually worked. He stated he caught some grief for cutting the wood and dismantling the family lawn mower but the success of his goal showed intelligence, creativity, determination and true grit. I hope his parents ultimately applauded young Taryle and encouraged his future endeavors.

[@mikesenginesandadventures]

I love this story. It’s no wonder you’ve been so successful... it has been in your blood from the very beginning.

[@mustie1]

time to go cruisen for chicks,

[@John3_3]

Taryl and mustie were legends even before KZbin

[@tomtheplummer7322]

Hey Mustie, is this how you started too?

[@ganeshnarayan5505]

Hey Mustie little Johnny wants to race you with the tractor you build on your last video.

[@FatHulkRideEbike]

When do we get a collab? :-)

[@scrappysgarage7404]

@@FatHulkRideEbike I know right been waitin forever

[@dpm1964]

This is brilliant in it's simplicity. Thank you Taryl for breaking things down to their simplest components and showing how an engine can power a kid's bike. You are a gem!

[@ProlificInvention]

Heck yeah, awesome video! Brought back memories as I was a child fabricobbler also 😆. I built an all wood go cart with wagon wheels, foot steering with a rope backup, and a 4hp vertical Kmart briggs. Transmission/clutch system was an old riding mower transmission I found in the junkyard by my house, I adapted it perfectly with some old pulleys and belts. I say perfectly, but it was a trial and error process for sure. I remember I could slam it into gear and shift all 3, and even reverse occasionally. I eventually blew the transmission so I had acquired a 4 hp REO mower engine from a gas powered reel mower I got in a deal for working cleaning up these people's shed and yard. That's fine was awesome, and it had a built in gear reduction. I used a pedal powered belt clutch and my dad built me a steering gear at work so I could install a steering wheel to my 2x4" front "axle"/steering plank swivel style 😆 I also rocked around everywhere with an old 28cc weed wacker engine on my Kent BMX bike, dad helped me with the mount and clutch. Good times

[@lorettacaputo6997]

If you can dream it....you can build it. I got some good laughs out of this episode.

[@andrewnorris1514]

I think little Faryl is hilarious

[@garagedweller7159]

I used to do the same type of stuff and it made my Dad mad cause I took his stuff apart to build things. I'm 61 years old now and still have that same exact sabre saw that was my Dad's and it still works as well.Thanks for some memories.

[@barackobama5304]

I've got my dad's saws and drills from late 60s. Still run great. They built rock solid back then - no plastic crap.

[@treytaylor7553]

I love coming across these older videos. This is another great one. The tricycle is awesome and love the CBGB shirt Taryl. I hate that it’s not around anymore. I was lucky enough to get to go there years ago.

[@captpaulhaugan]

In 1968 I asked:my dad for a snowmobile. He told me to build one. I found an aluminum toboggan and a Maytag washing machine engine with a centrifugal clutch and kick start at the town dump. The local machine shop let me go through their scrap pile. I got a pulley, axle, bearing blocks. The owner helped me with a steerable front ski. The Texaco garage supplied a Ford model A fan belt. Over several weeks time I had been using my red wagon to collect parts and show the engine to get the correct size belt etc. the belt was drilled and machine screws were added to grip the ice. The was a river behind our house. It was frozen with little snow. The first day the brass machine screws broke off. The Ace hardware guy saw my problem and supplied hardened machine screws. It worked for a week till we got our first real snow, no more traction. When I got home from school there saw a brand new 1968 300cc 14 H.P. Skidoo parked next to my home built snowmobile.

[@reedsilvesan2197]

Apparently your dad wanted you to live.

[@pyromedichd1]

Lots of fun going back down memory lane. I've been tempted to build another mini bike like the one I built using an old bicycle frame, B&S 2 1/2 HP edger engine, Speed Queen washing machine clutch, dryer pulley and wheelbarrow wheel, all from trash pile, when I was about 12 or 13. Believe it or not, I still have a couple of those old Speed Queen fluid drive coupling washing machine clutches.

[@Sludge73]

Best video yet! Great story, thanks so much, Taryl!

[@ryanmacewen511]

Oh hell dude! That's awesome. When I was little, I built go-karts out of anything with wheels. Wooden toy box wheels. Wheels from rolling totes, etc. Mostly for down hill cruising. No motors. lol. Awesome as always!

[@melonboi186]

Hey taryl, I am 10 years old and my name is Landon, and I am a mechanic, I got a Briggs and Stratton 4hp running, I fixed a tecumseh hh60, and I restored a cub cadet 108, and I’m still a kid, but I love fixing engines

[@randaldavid7685]

Love your videos. You deserve an academy award for your videos. they're as entertaining as they are informative.

[@robertturner6249]

This video explains a lot about Taryl and his passion for small engines.

[@johndarin4582]

My wife has finally really liked your channel after showing her many times. She thought it was so cool this episode and thought you must have had a amazing brain for a nine year old to build such a thing. I always find your channel so funny wnd at the same time informative

[@alanblanke5019]

Thanks for sharing this with your fans, love stories like this. Please give us more!

[@AlvinHanson1708]

Fun watching the latest fix it videos. Please keep the fun rolling.

[@timbo1280]

This is my new favorite video on youtube!

[@koerttijdens1234]

Taryl, you were already genius as kid, amazing.

[@stanbogdanovecz1300]

We all built mini bikes and go karts in our neighborhood in the 60s. Great times remembered. Thanks Teryl!

[@ztemde978]

That’s great! As a parent it is a balancing act to encourage creativity when your kids do things like this. Kids today lack this and it’s going to be the end of us.

[@watsjd1]

Amazing story!!

[@utooobur]

I did almost the same thing at the same age. I took a gas powered reel type walk behind with the identical Briggs engine you used and took the handle off and the rear wheels off the trike. I than bolted the step plate that was between the rear trike tires to the plate on the mower where the engine and belt clutch were mounted. Of course the mower tires were now the rear tires of the trike. I was able to actuate the clutch via the original rod now moved to the trike. I rode that thing around my block a thousand times and when ever I would ride over grass I would cut a swatch. Over the years I mounted that old cast iron Briggs on many things. Video brought back those memories.

[@davidaldrich3488]

Many stories here also about building our own this and that from the mid to late 50’s Thanks for reminding me Very cool

[@mlmiks]

Wow. Your parents must have been so proud. Great video

[@Maurice1151]

Absolutely loved this mate!👍👍👍

[@691lucian]

The amount of views on this shows how many true fans you have Taryl, you truly put your passion into your craft! Awesome video!!!!

[@outtatime4512]

One of the only people I know that has a creative mind and is intelligent enough to make it happen.

[@davidellis7695]

Love it! MOAT. The Mother of all Tricycles

[@markmore5906]

Class act!!! Love your videos!! Keep up the good work

[@GrizzlyGlen]

That's killer...love it 😎👍

[@miker8368]

Darn creative for a 9 year old...nice job, Taryl!

[@thelonelyfisherman9797]

Awesome story Taryl and Co. Lol, you guys are real talent, reminds me of my childhood

[@bryanveevee5975]

That thing is awesome! So very cool to not only have heard the story before in previous videos, but also to finally see how it was done and working. It's amazing what anyone can come up with with just a little bit of brain power and elbow grease.

[@CTmoog]

HAHA! =) on the floor laughing! That thing is awesome!

[@kraigcochran9995]

I’ve got my dad’s old silver black and decker sabre saw still too and I still use it!

[@Argedis]

This was really cool! Amazing re-creation

[@paulfeagans9904]

Thanks for a great video! That's the kind of stuff my friends and I used to do when we were kids

[@Patrick4959]

love it Taryl mate cheers from Australia to your area :D

[@davidmayes6960]

Wow, thats awesome you recreated it!!

[@jimmyguy428]

LMAO!! Awesome video! Reminds me of my youth, building all kinds of contraptions from stuff that I found laying around, and from trash piles.

[@apatterson8128]

Amazing! To think he did all of that WITHOUT the "interscreen!"

[@vanharmon4423]

Very cool doing this with what you could find and figuring out how to make it work. Love it

[@jaraldduke2841]

The video we have been waiting for

[@mightydub6459]

Maybe best childhood story I have ever heard. The re-enactment really showed the awesomeness of a 4th grader pulling that off. Hell, when I was 9 I still couldn't think my way out of a paper bag. Wait....how old WERE you in 4th grade?

[@andrewnorris1514]

That might be the best video so far I couldn't tell if that was little Taryl or young Peter Fonda ? Funny as hell

[@larrykluckoutdoors8227]

ArrowSmith

[@kailarsen6148]

Of course Taryl forgets to mention he was 17 years old in the 4th grade.

[@billsmith8238]

Great comment

[@gregmaggielipscomb9246]

Kool Beans

[@kailarsen6148]

@@billsmith8238 Hahaha- Thanks Bill, that comment is all in good fun of course. I'm 61. When I was in 4th 5th 6th grade my next door neighbor buddy, maybe a year older than me worked out in the garage with his dad all the time. Outboard motors, go carts, mini bikes lawn mowers... He knew all about tools & building motorized stuff while I was still putting cards in the spokes of my Schwinn. I just remember feeling really inept and kinda jealous. There are a few lucky young kids out there that are exposed to this mechanical stuff early on & get to carry that knowledge with them throughout life. I had to learn what I know the hard way, later in life, through trial & error & dollar after dollar.

[@FishFind3000]

He got held bad a few times

[@rickmanley767]

You’re probably right!

[@jimpapathanasiou878]

Hi taryl brings me back memories when I was a little boy when I had a tricycle but with foot paddles no motor .thanks for your mechanical videos and years of Knowledge keep them coming from jim the plumber from queanbeyan nsw Australia

[@brenttamatea7578]

thats awesome great idea the neighbourhood kids would be lining up for rides.

[@harryburford6629]

that was bloody great . great stuff tyrel make a few more use a belt teninosner i love people who say you can't do that and you do.

[@William_Hada]

When you mentioned doing this a while back I was very curious exactly how you did this. Thanks for sharing, I loved it! LOL!

[@mark-wn5ek]

That Junior....one of these days that boy will win an Emmy, Golden Sparkplug or Earl statue. That Kmart sabre saw reminds me of the old drills when I was a kid....they stunk like ozone everytime you ran them. I've still not figured that out. That contraption reminds me of the Whizzer sportsman I had...a handmedown. It looked like a 20 inch bike with a pulley on the back tire. I think the engine was about 1 1/2 hp. It'd do about 35.

[@vinces8974]

Absolutely brilliant

[@gregorypierce6703]

This brought back some memories of the summer of 1966 when those were running around the neighborhood and the kids who had one were under strict orders nobody else rode theirs unless their was a adult with a license was around for a possible post crash trip for medical. 🤣🤣🤣

[@theadventuresofshellyandfr5618]

Wow that really takes me back!! 😂 Your the best Teral!! I built a wooden go kart called a billy kart when I was a kid in the 70s then a few years ago I built one with a 212cc engine! I crashed on it and slid across the road lol! It’s pretty scetchy! Lol I didn’t have a engine on mine in the 70s just coasted it down the old gravel hills. Love y’all!! This is my favorite episode!

[@chevelleburke7252]

Just watched musti 1 Nd he used taral pudy on his tank👍

[@thyubernoob]

I just watched him to before coming to Taryl...Taryl putty saved Musties rusty gas tank...lol

[@chevelleburke7252]

@@thyubernoob i guess we have good taste in our sunday fix it shows 👍👍👍

[@TarylFixesAll]

That Mustie, swell guy 👍

[@JohnR9965]

Just watched musti then this also. ....lol

[@Buckwsr]

I had to watch it twice! Great job, guys.

[@paulsherman7802]

The first time I saw a Big Wheel I said, "THAT needs a motor!" Drift trike before everyone else. That is probably how I would have done it. Fun video.

[@jamesharber7820]

Brings back fond memories of when I was a poor farm kid attempting to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. :)

[@chrisbcritter6112]

Groovy attention to detail, man! Even down to the "vintage" Pepsi can with a pull tab and bad teeth with braces (they didn't help)! Do you EVER throw anything away??!!!

[@Magnacharger07]

This is the best skit yet!!!!!!

[@briankemp5206]

Great work guys!

[@jamesfrost5261]

That's cool, I wouldn't be here today if I used stuff like you did. Lol very cool. Glad you got to relive a childhood memory like that.

[@mikeodinson5665]

Great episode Boys! I see a new tee-shirt idea 10 year old tyral dressed like a hippy standing next to his tricycle ! Grooooovy! Hahah thanks for the laughs boys !

[@arthurhudgens8213]

Man I bet that was fun recreating that.thats real cool. Ahh memories

[@jme36053]

Memories...pressed between the pages just like??? Great stuff!

[@rverro8478]

Yup ! The can of Pepsi and the 3 lbs Black and Decker is on point, with the late 60's early 70's. My first mower was a Tecumseh with a winding crank on top.

[@tylerholliday3896]

All my friends had go-karts. My parents couldn’t afford one for me. So got one of of those old snapper mowers, pulled the deck off, and that was my go-kart. Lol

[@andrewnorris1514]

I hear ya we had No Tools! We gotta em now though

[@timcaviness5933]

Yes finally what we have been waiting for. So cool

[@jvin248]

That's fun. What we did before video games, the Internet, and cable television. How many 'jumps' did that tricycle get driven over? Lol. As a father I'd be a little mad at parting out the garage gear but proud the kid was inventive and built something that worked.

[@zeeb696]

Taryl you are my hero!! Have you ever put a decompression valve on a saw that didn’t have one originally have one? I got a saw I can’t turn pull over to start. Thanks man.

[@the4thj]

Great story, that is one for Story Corp for sure!

[@BrucesWorldofStuff]

Damn that brings back the memories! Mine was a old Clinton engine with the same setup. I made mine out of 2x2s and plywood, 3/4, 12" pipe, wash machine belt and pulley and my red-flyer wagon... I flew... Thanks gang for the video! LLAP

[@wassamattau860]

I LOVE this video! So fun!! Best to all. :)

[@davidschmidt1780]

So funny I did the same thing only I used an old wooden Radio Flyer wagon I still have the 5-S Briggs engine and it still runs great. ! ! !

[@feeldiben]

Beautiful story and video. You're a genius like aviators were back in the days at the begining of the adventure... and I think it was a great period to accomplish this kind of experience (70's) . Nowadays everything is forbidden so how can we evolve in this kind of world...

[@altonhouse9740]

Invented for a 10-11 year. Great story, thanks for sharing. Betting you wish you still had today.

[@edwardskerness9226]

I never had a tricycle powered like this, but I did use the old Case lawn tractor. It had hydro static and once I found the Hi Lo lever on the floorboard, that became a neighborhood cruiser with my buds and their lawn tractors.