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Re: Broken crank gear - why?
Posted to Technical Discussion Forum on 9/8/2011

It looks to me like the key was tasked with driving the gear directly via the key. That should never happen, and none of the components involved are up for that task. The only way I can think of that this would happen is if the balancer bolt were not torqued a... Login to read more.