Ive been cutting lots of small dead pines for use as evaporator fuel making maple syrup. I came across an oak that was begging to be felled, so I obliged. Perfect hinge and it fell exactly were I intended. Went to cut the stump down, finished the cut, threw the chain and left the clutch with several broken and missing pieces. Looks like I'm done cutting for the year. Happ New Year.
It does like look like it got pretty hot. Get some new springs for it and you should be ready to go again unless there is something else I do not see in the pics that is bad. Make sure to grease the bearing while you have it apart. All that heat probably dried it out.
I'm not sure if the bearing failed first or something else but it's disintegrated. Among the missing and broken pieces are the washer and clip that holds every thing together, a couple of shoe retainers, a spring and two of the clips that sit on top of the springs (that's the two chunks sitting next to the sprocket in the picture.)
Well if this happened on 31 Dec and you didn't have spare parts I guess you would be done for the year.
Is that a 290? I have a decent clutch assembly I could send you for only cost of postage. I had one break at the crank behind the clutch assembly . It now works great as a Halloween prop(we help out on a local fundraiser each year, and I enjoy the reactions from people on the hayride that go by)
