WITW - Mark's poorly Dolphin

[MikkiJayne]

Originally Posted by Markiii

I'm really not sure if i should feel unlucky.............

or lucky that none of the things you've found so far killed anything

Every time I look at it, I find it astounding that the broken piece of starter didn't get jammed up in the flywheel and punch a hole through the gearbox casing.

I can't fathom how it happened in the first place, let along how it didn't take anything much larger out with it. Possibly it was dropped when the gearbox was changed, but based on the exhaust manifold bolts that must have been well over a decade ago. Possibly a crack started which very slowly propagated until the day it failed completely?

The water from the exhaust manifold is somewhat less lucky though.