When this happens, you’ll stop very fast.

[ItBeMe]

[Brad_G]

That damn near made it around.

[Lug Nut]

Thank goodness the chain and sprocket stopped it lol

[Father Pobasturd]

Thats ugly.

[Duke]

Looks like the nut came off, like a couple other bikes. Aaron's bike had the end of the transmission shaft broken off with the nut still attached.
Did you install that nut?

[Shotround]

hope that wasnt the new engine.

[MidnightRide]

You guys are starting to scare me.

[Ahodge75]

Yeah that reminds me of a time best to be forgotten……looks like the lock washer didn’t hold and the nut backed off. Not nearly as catastrophic as as mine was…..welcome to the club my man…..

[Lug Nut]

Did the nut just unthread and come off or did it actually shear off of the shaft?

[davej]

looks like a new style chain tensioner. lol

[ItBeMe]

Ifthere was a lock washer. It was never found and a nut on the other side where the pulley is for the belt there was no lock washer there I ordered lock washers and will use Loctite when going back together.

[Duke]

You might want to check out the shafts for being straight. It could have bent the transmission out-put shaft, as it did with Aarons bike. Another thing to check out very closely is the cases for any cracks.

[ItBeMe]

You might want to check out the shafts for being straight. It could have bent the transmission out-put shaft, as it did with Aarons bike. Another thing to check out very closely is the cases for any cracks.

I have a shaf in a different gear that’s going in there from the other bike so it’s no problem.

[Duke]

There might be more damage in there then you think?....?

[MidnightRide]

So that's the replacement motor that just went in? Were you riding it?

Still unclear about the circumstances surrounding this trauma.

[ItBeMe]

I was not riding it the young man that put the engine and was ptaking it for a spin saw how it happened. I have no idea but it’ll be fixed just fine.

[Duke]

????

[roadiemort]

Why bother even posting about this phuckup if you don't have the common courtesy of elaborating and answering folks question they asked you, have another drink!

[MidnightRide]

I was not riding it the young man that put the engine and was ptaking it for a spin saw how it happened. I have no idea but it’ll be fixed just fine.

OK ItBeMe ,so what you're saying is that once your assistant put the motor in, he took it for a test ride(s) and then had this massive failure, whether at a stop light or running it down the highway, with no indication that a problem may come up. Sounds like there wasn't a crash involved?

I am very sorry to hear that this has happened to your REPLACEMENT motor! That's gotta suck. But better now than when you were running solo hours from home on some remote highway with no help around or cell service.

Did you ever pull the first motor apart to see what the issue was with that one?

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roadiemort , please note that our fellow brother here is well into his 70's and posting online may not be his native practice or language...

[roadiemort]

I'm 70 with a brain bleed and don't make excuses for my shortcomings.

[MidnightRide]

I've got a general question for you guys regarding this kind of failure.

I've had issues in the past when some type of failure came up on one of my bikes, but by pulling in the clutch I was able to disconnect the drive from the rear wheel.

What about here? It looks like this is post-clutch so I'd be at the mercy of this failure regardless of speed or rider response. In other words, is the rear tire just going to lock up if this shaft freezes, or will the clutch disengage?

My brain's not all that into analytic mode right now since I've been running some kind of a fever for most of the week, so asking is quicker than figuring it out--

Thanks

UPDATE: Clearly the tranny is behind the engine and clutch, technically speaking, so there's no saving this by pulling the clutch in. This is a potentially deadly scenario, depending on conditions and one's riding skills in any given situation.

[ItBeMe]

OK ItBeMe ,so what you're saying is that once your assistant put the motor in, he took it for a test ride(s) and then had this massive failure, whether at a stop light or running it down the highway, with no indication that a problem may come up. Sounds like there wasn't a crash involved?

I am very sorry to hear that this has happened to your REPLACEMENT motor! That's gotta suck. But better now than when you were running solo hours from home on some remote highway with no help around or cell service.

Did you ever pull the first motor apart to see what the issue was with that one?

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roadiemort , please note that our fellow brother here is well into his 70's and posting online may not be his native practice or language...

OK the guy that put the engine and took it for a test ride up the road and evidently the nut came off and locked up the chain. Thank God he was able to keep the bike upright then I had to load it on a trailer locked up. I was not at home at the time, so we’ve got the parts to fix it right and things will be OK .

[ItBeMe]

I've got a general question for you guys regarding this kind of failure.

I've had issues in the past when some type of failure came up on one of my bikes, but by pulling in the clutch I was able to disconnect the drive from the rear wheel.

What about here? It looks like this is post-clutch so I'd be at the mercy of this failure regardless of speed or rider response. In other words, is the rear tire just going to lock up if this shaft freezes, or will the clutch disengage?

My brain's not all that into analytic mode right now since I've been running some kind of a fever for most of the week, so asking is quicker than figuring it out--

Thanks

When this happens, your rear rear wheel is locked up tight clutch won’t help you out the only way you can make the bike freewheeling again and take the belt off and this is a warning when you take any of this apart are use the lock washer and Loctite everything.

[Lug Nut]

When you put the replacement motor in, did you disassemble the metal drive at all or inspect it? Could it have been simply that that motor had this issue to begin with?

[MidnightRide]

Meaning that you think the nut may have already been off, but the motor still ran, and the nut jammed up after actually being ridden? Good question. If I was doing a replacement I'm not certain I'd have pulled it apart to check myself. May not have been a 'coincidence'.

But didn't this motor come off of another bike he'd ridden/wrecked previously? If so, could this have been the actual cause of that wreck, without being discovered until now?

ItBeMe

[DEEPHATE]

I am SO confused!

[MidnightRide]

I think someone's going to need to go back to the other thread to connect these dots.

IIRC, he bought the 'cheap' $1300 bike, knowing he had a backup motor if needed. He had the backup motor from a bike he'd wrecked years ago and had hung onto.

He pulled the motor from the $1300 bike and put in the 'working' motor from his previously working-fine but now wrecked bike, and when his guy went on a test ride the motor failed as shown in the pic above.

I don't think we were given many details of the previous wreck or whether that motor had been checked-out before installed in the 'new' bike. So I was wondering if this type of failure is what caused the first wreck to begin with, unknown to ItBeMe , or whether the wreck itself contributed to this failure which became a NEW failure after the previous accident itself.

Or it may have just been unrelated bad luck; a total coincidence.

Please excuse me if I'm mixing a couple of non-related threads together, but my foggy brain seems to want to put this all together. My fever is down to only 99.4 at the moment, from its previous 103.4 of days past.

Not that that has anything to do with anything, LOL.