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borna said:
Good news is the engine wants to start but the bad news is as its trying to start the flywheel become loose.
I thought 4 set screws will hold the flywheel in placed but I guess I was wrong.
So looks like I got a bad design in placed. Any suggestions that you guys can think of to fix this issue?

This is how the flywheel is hold to crankshaft.

Thanks
Borna
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Hi Borna,
This fix won't last. There is too much shock load.May I suggesst three options as permanent cure.
1. use a taper shaft sleeve adapter with key way.
2. use woodruff key.
3. parallel key.
 
I tried set screws and got the same results....just don't hold even with 3 pints of Loctite!. A rollpin thru flywheel hub and crankshaft worked real nice here on my I/C engines, just learning sollutions that work thanks to more veteran modellers.
 
I was planning to use a rollpin, but I think would be hard if you need to remove the flywheel from crankshaft. But I could be wrong.
However I used 2 piece clamp on shaft-collars and holding very well after total of 2 hours run time.

Borna
 
Gus,

Perhaps he can make the shaft out of a single piece of steel? It's not that dificult.

Rob
 
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