Michael,
Another [perhaps remote] possibility is a broken or badly worn tooth on
the ring-gear (flywheel). Most of the time engine inertia will allow a
jump over one bad tooth, but if its on the end of a compression stroke
the engine slows down and you get a pinion to ring gear clash. Brings
things to a pretty abrupt halt, only solutions is to replace the
flywheel. BTW this problem is easy to inspect on the car, all you need
to do is remove the starter (5 minutes tops), scoot into the left
wheelwell, stick your head between the frame and the body so you can see
the ring gear teeth and have someone slow move the car (best done with
the car in 5th gear, slowly rolling, match scoot speed to vehicle
motion) so you can inspect all the teeth. <G> Maybe marking a tooth with
paint and using a mirror would be better. Let's hope this is not the
problem.
Todd "former clutch rider" Osborn - please don't tell Mark.
68 2L DATSFUN
San Jose, CA
CalSpeed@aol.com wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> For the past few years my starter has been acting strange. Sometimes it
crnaks nice but then it started to stall when the motor has been driven
for awhile and it got alittle hot. One of the things that it has done
was to stall out temporarily while cranking. It sounded like it was
cranking three cylinders and then the fourth it would stall or hesitate
until it passed over that cylinder.
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Calspeed
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