I have seen this happen on 3 gators, all of which were 6 wheelers. It happened on mine and two of my neighbors. Because I had seen it happen before, I was able to catch it quick enough when it happened to mine. I found that it starts with a small oil leak. Since these gators hold less than 2 quarts of motor oil, a small leak can cause it to lose half of its' oil quickly. You can also cause this problem by spilling oil and not cleaning it up. But once the oil is under the engine you are going to have a problem. There are only 4 bolts holding the motor on this gator. They are metric bolts, but they are about 3/8" in diameter and about 1 inch long. All three that I have worked on, had no lock washers on them and were not lock-tited in. What I have found is the oil gets in the bottom of the frame, spreads out, and gets on those bolts. After that, it will work it's way up the threads and the vibration will loosen them. The driver should be able to feel the extreme vibration in the motor when the bolts loosen up. One of my neighbors, only had 3 bolts hanging out of his when he asked me to look at it. The other neighbor had no bolts in his and the crankshaft had damaged the housing on the motor. On mine; my grandson was going to drive it and noticed it was knocking when he started it. He turned it off and came and got me to look at it. All 4 bolts were loose, and since I had seen this before I knew exactly what the problem was. The reason mine got to that point was that it was being used every day and we had not checked the oil. The bottom of the pan was wet with oil.
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