Jeff,

I understand re: Removing the shafts tell me I'm out to lunch here. Why not just cut the belts? Seems to me to be an much simpler operation for the same result albeit, you still are carrying around the weight of the shafts but they are not being rotated by the crank. It's the belts that cause the problem of breaking and taking out the timming belt when they go.

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