[6pack] starter or ring gear

[Michael Porter]

lfm614 at aol.com wrote:
> If the starter is not getting full power either from a weak battery or bad connection the actuator/gear might not be going in all the way and grazing the ring gear. Easy to check with a VOM at the starter.  
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>   

I could buy that but for the construction of this type of starter.  It 
doesn't use a centrifugal Bendix-type arrangement to throw the pinion 
into mesh with the ring gear, nor does it have a solenoid and lever fork 
to move the pinion--either of those might not fully engage with a weak 
battery or high resistance in the starter primary or secondary circuits.


These, on the other hand, use a pinion on a plunger operated by a 
solenoid, with the solenoid designed not to switch battery power to the 
starter windings until the pinion is fully extended.  If it were just a 
matter of low battery power or high resistance (enough to prevent full 
engagement), the starter would not turn over, either.


Cheers.

-- 


Michael Porter
Roswell, NM


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