Engine Trouble

[jpgreen]

Good fix- run it and scrap it.

It would have been way to much work to pull the shaft on that old engine and turn the shaft.

Like mentioned before, I bet the clutch hanging out so far on the shaft may have caused the problem in the first place. Now you've got a great reason to do an engine upgrade someday... 

[olyman]

Is there any shadetree in you? Weld that shaft up and take a hand grinder and put the keyway back in. What happened to cause it to do that? Joe

x's 2--i took a crank out of a 8 hp briggs, that use to be a generator engine. welded it up with a mig,SLOWLY, turned it down on the lathe, then took it to a machinist friend--and he recut the keyway. 20 dollars to recut. and 1 gasket for the side to pull the crank out.about 1.25.didnt even have to pull the head or piston--just pushed it up out of the way of the crank

[zopi]

white tank honda..love those things...

[Stephen1]

I figure

Good fix- run it and scrap it.

It would have been way to much work to pull the shaft on that old engine and turn the shaft.

Like mentioned before, I bet the clutch hanging out so far on the shaft may have caused the problem in the first place. Now you've got a great reason to do an engine upgrade someday... 

I hadn't visited with my buddy in quite a while, so after much talking and socializing with some brown pops we came up with the same conclusion as  jpgreen and he didn't have the pops we had.

[jpgreen]

What are 'Brown Pops" Stephen?  ....