A few years ago I bought a Kawasaki Mule (a bit like this but in worse condition) from a scrap yard with the intention of getting it going again.
Main problem was that a rear drive shaft was missing and the cabin floor had rotted away and there were no brakes - it was also unkown if the 19hp petrol engine ran.
The floor is now fixed and the driveshaft replaced and the brakes shouldn't be too tricky to fix but the engine only runs on one of the two cylinders (they are rather liable to do this).
I was going to strip it down and replace some rings as the compression seems low, but now I'm thinking that maybe I could get hold of an electric motor from somewhere and use that instead of the petrol engine.
Drive would be pretty simple as the original engine drives a separate gearbox via a belt, so should be a fairly simple task to hook the two together and there's foom to fit a battery tray for a few batteries.
But I have no idea what sort of motor I should be looking out for. anybody experienced with this sort of electric motor?
There are loads of types of motor for every application, and they need various control strategies...
