Thread: tracker 25 hp starter problem

Sometimes when you hit the key the starter whines but doesn't ingage motor so you grab pull start and half pull starts right up, then later on you might hit key and starts right up, no set pattern, anyone got a idea?

a little oil on the bendix cured mine...

Originally Posted by Minus 1

a little oil on the bendix cured mine...

X2 on this one.

sounds like a bad solenoid. Just a guess

new bendix or a selinoed

Clean the shaft the bendix rides up and down on then lightly lube it. A low battery or bad connections will cause that too.

Originally Posted by Barnacle Bill

Clean the shaft the bendix rides up and down on then lightly lube it.

This usually winds up being the fix for most I see

when it first started to do this our first thoughts were the batterie so he switched it out to a newer one, seemed to help but it came back Iam thinking its the bendix like a few of you mentioned I will have him look at this thread thanks for the help.

I am really having to stretch my memory as to a fix for this. Many years ago I had the same symptoms and we fixed it by taking the spring off the starter drive gear and stretching it out to make it stronger. Just the opposite of what I would have thought would help, but the mechanic explained to me that the spring has to push the drive gear into mesh with the drive shaft of the starter for it to kick up and mesh with the flywheel and spin the motor. Mine would just spin away like free wheeling because the gear was not engaging the flywheel.
Just one more thing to check out. Easy to do and free too.
Good luck.
SeaRay

get the starter tested.