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?
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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...
sounds like a bad solenoid. Just a guess
X2 on this one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Minus 1
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.
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
This usually winds up being the fix for most I seeQuote:
Originally Posted by Barnacle Bill
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.
get the starter tested.
Could be needing cleaning like has been suggested, could be short brushes, could be a bad armature. For the starter to work, it mus have enough initial turn to screw the drive up the armature shaft, unlike mentioned above. The spring mentioned above is to push the drive out of the fly wheel when the motor cranks and outruns the drive. Short brushes in most cases is the problem, although a bad solenoid can cause a restricted current flow to the flywheel. Hope this helps. BTW, if that is the problem the starter can be rebuilt. I rebuild them on a regular basis as does most starter / alternator shops.
John