new poster, maybe too late for help. anyone ever heard of stator? (sp) not being lock-tighted down? mechanic telling me that flywheel got chewed up from above cause. 950$ in parts flywheel, stator, plastic flywheel coever(?) would stator failure cause tilt/trim motor to fail at same time. its a 1997, that's new to me but it appears to have been babied. i was running about 4000 rpm. never showed any other signs of trouble. tahnks in advance, g.
