Focusing on the fracture issue of single cylinder engine crankshafts, a threedimensional solid model was built in CATIA. Pretreatments, such as plotting grids, were carried out through Hypermesh, and finite element analysis was done using MSC. Patran/Nastran. The results show that the fatigue safety coefficient cannot meet demand when nodular iron is the crankshaft material. This finding verifies the theoretical possibility of crankshaft fracture. A crankshaft using 40Cr theoretically would not fracture because the fatigue safety coefficient could meet the demand. Simulation correctness was verified by a 400 hour engine reliability test.