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2 months after a top end rebuild my 1983 Honda ATC200E it made a metal snapping noise and died, pushed it back home, took out the engine and took it apart. It was caused by me not putting thread lock on the cam gear bolts, they worked their way out with one snapping that got caught and snapped the cam chain. Since it’s an interference engine the exhaust valve and piston hit. This won’t be fun to fix. Had to take apart the crack case to get the bolt head and chain out.