the whole whole story. OUt for a nice relaxing ride, then completly slows down and pics right back up again. As im headen back in a loud snap followed by sqweeling. got towed back in drained the baterry tryen to pin point where it was coming from, let the baterry charge on the truck for 45 min hooked it back up a few mins later battery started smoken, burnen hot, got it out. (up to this point still was turning over) Next day went and piced up a new battery, i asked the mech about what would cause this bat to burn up, happens all the time he said due to the real rough condition of the logging road, plates in the bat shift yadda yadda. I had called the day before if he had bats ready to go that were charged the reply was ya. but watched him pull one out of the box and waited another 35 min before leaven. im thinken all it got was a 30 min charge. Stuck the new bat in, but now all i was getten was a faint click,I by passed the relay stator/selinoid and it turned over. took a 3 hour drive and got a new one. went to put the bat back in and found a large bolt back by the bat (still turning over at this point). figured it came from the front and what had caused the loud snap, it had shot from the front to back. As i was feeling around in the front i found another one, they matched the motor mounts. popped of the hosing where the driveshaft meets the motor sure enough i was missing two, the two in my hand. Sweet prob fixed --new bat, new sparkplugs, new relaystator, all connections scrubbed clean good to go. gently wiggled the motor back n forth to make sure bolts went in nice n easy, hit the start and CLUNCK *&^^$%*(^%( . My Q is ---Is it possible that a washer or two could have jammed in somewhere between the shaft and motor, all i get is about a 1/4 of a turn when turnen by hand.
