Flywheel shattered on loose pullstart bolt...

[Peteolheadz100]

Running my rampage Chimera when i heard a pop and glass shattering, turned off the engine and on inspection i removed my pull start and seen the center bolt on the reel that holds the pull start in place came loose and destroyed my flywheel.

Here's a picture, always check that the bolt has loctite.....lesson learned who would have thought this on a pull start but hey ...it happened

 

[Nasim]

Ouch!!! Man that sucks.

 

[John Parks]

Dam, that sucks. Definitely will check

 

[Gamefan]

Sorry to see this happen! Let us know when you are back up and running again!

I went through my engine again after seeing this and applied blue Loctite to the two bolts inside.