Sounds like some rust or crud is preventing engagement. Perhaps a misalignment due to a loose mounting bolt. If all is tight, take it out and clean all moving parts thoroughly. good luck. On Monday, December 6, 2004, at 09:07 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote: > Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 22:37:16 -0500 > From: Dennis <guskersthecat@YAHOO.COM> > Subject: Vanagon starter final drive issues? > > For those of you experienced with the internals of the vanagon starter: > > When doing my engine conversion, I had my 1990 Westy starter rebuilt. > In > the year the project languished, the starter lay unused, and the > rebuilder > retired. > > Increasingly, (about 50% of the time) the starter spins up, but does > not > engage the flywheel. Naturally it never did this before the rebuild. > I > removed it once, and took it in to another bosch shop. They bench > tested > and gave it back declaring it fit for service (they didn't energize it > more > than once I would guess). So before I remove it again and bring it > in, any > thoughts? My guess is that despite being freshly rebuilt, I now have > a bad > final drive. |
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