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Update: I fired the machine up today and it started pretty easily and seemed to run well. I let it run for about 15 minutes. It was very cold out today, about 32°. I had sprayed fogging oil in the cylinder so there was a normal big cloud of smoke at first, but that went away after a couple of...

Well then fingers crossed I really don't need a new engine! I suppose the best option if I did would be to buy the harbor freight engine and bring it to a machine shop and see if they could mill the shaft somehow to make it fit

That would be perfect for what I'm looking for. Because not only do I want a high and low forward, and a reverse, but I also want to put an open differential on this machine so I can actually take corners without the worlds worse understeer. AND I want to hook it up to my factory CVT. It would...

"Now some do have a multi speed differentials as you choose low, high, and reverse ranges." tell me more about THAT. The MOST ideal solution for me would be some type of gearbox that has a normal forward, a low range forward, and a reverse, all hooked up to a regular old automatic CVT belt drive!

So what do you do? Is there really no way to replace the motor if it was dead? Or would I have to try to transplant this one's crankshaft into a different motor?