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Re: [TR] TR6 starter question - no Triumph content

To: "jim hearn" <jimhearn1@comcast.net>, <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [TR] TR6 starter question - no Triumph content
From: pethier@comcast.net
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:02:50 +0000
From: "jim hearn" <jimhearn1@comcast.net>
> If I get a grind about every tenth time I turn the key to start and after a
> grind, if I immediately attempt to start again without moving anything and
> it starts fine, is it safe to assume that the problem is with my
> starter/solenoid instead of flywheel teeth missing?  Wouldn't flywheel teeth
> missing have more of a tendency to grind a few times in a row until the
> flywheel was moved?  Thanks, Jim (1974 TR6)

On my Suburban, I get a starter grind sometimes and sometimes it starts 
normally.  Sometimes it will start on the first try, somtimes the second, 
sometimes the eighth. There seems to be no pattern to this. 

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1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1993 Suburban,
1994 Miata C package
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