stool not fitting

[Penland]

everything is now in on my bsr...one problem my bar stool wont fit over
my engine. like the engine is to wide any ideas?

[Neverdone]

Wow what kind of motor are you using? I first mocked up mine with an 8 HP flat head briggs and it fit fine!! I guess if you have access to a bender you could bend the legs out farther to clear the motor, or there is the method of building your own stool, but I never thought the ones with square tube frames for stools looked very good, and round tube is harder to find especially in the light weight variety. other than that......

[Penland]

the thing is i build my frame to fit my stool so now if i bent the stool its
not going to fit... i think i found a way to make my own stool but its
going to look real sketchy. so far the sq frame looks pretty good too
compaired to others ive seen. i think im just going to get tghe motor
mounted and see what all i go to do to fit the stool...hope it works... be
sure to keep it posted

[Frank McGrath]

I had to have new legs made up because the stool did not fit over the motor. I am using a clone 6.5. I went to a race car shop and had new legs bent and welded. I made up a drawing of what I wanted by making some measurements and tracing it onto a piece of paper. Worked well.

[Penland]

sounds like what i got to do

[Frank McGrath]

It may help to use aftermarket fuel tank and exhaust. The bulk of the tank and muffler makes it hard to fit the stool over everything.

[chris insull]

One work around to consider would be to remove the support ring, and mount the stool that way. I did that with my 6.75 Briggs powered BSR to get me on the road sooner. I also cut approx 4" off the bottom of the legs to help with "proportions". If I build another one, a custom stool will be used...

[pertj]

everything is now in on my bsr...one problem my bar stool wont fit over
my engine. like the engine is to wide any ideas?

I removed the tank and the oem airfilter box. I still had to "tune" the legs a little bit to make it fit over the engine.

I have some pictures here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/pertjenssen/BarStoolRacer#

I have since then removed the tank, are now using an old fire engushier (sp ?) as a tank. In the picture of the trailer and the stool you can just barely see the new fuel tank...

[fleebag]

using an old fire engushier (sp ?) as a tank.

That looks sweet, man. Good Job!

[Penland]

i turned the stool sideways and chopped a lot but i must admit looks badass ill try to get some pics

[Penland]

heres my chopped stool. i also added some foot things to the back but pic not up to date