Last night I starting tearing down the 295cc Robins 4-stroke for Leigh’s E-Z-Go Golf Cart.

Quite some time ago this engine started smoking and then it would intermittently die. I’d walk out to wherever the cart quit, clean the plugs and it would be good to go for a while. I figured it was just going to be a piston ring and valve seal job, but had other projects in the works so I removed the engine from the cart and decided to take it to Mowers and Motors on Nevada Ave in Colorado Springs.

I had already expected to pay more than I wanted to, being able to do this stuff myself, but also not at all against paying someone a fair rate for a good job. So I dropped it off and after more than a month of phone calls to them and excuses, I was told, “Come pick it up. There’s nothing we can do with it.” When I got there to pick it up, I was given my previously running engine back as a bunch of parts in 3 separate boxes!

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