[Healeys] Started pinion meshed to ring gear

John Soderling bighealey at astound.net
Sat May 16 16:07:10 MDT 2009


Help needed:

Cully Anderson and I were touring the Napa wine country this morning and when
he started his 100 six after a stop.  It started but produced a loud grinding
noise with the engine running.  He shut it off immediately.  He restarted it
several times and same sound.  The sound seemed to come from the starter area
so I think the starter pinion teeth are stuck in the flywheel ring gear teeth.

Tried banging on the starter to dislodge but this did not brake it loose.
Also tried coasting the car and dropping the clutch to brake it loose - did
not work.  Had the car hauled to his house.

Are there any tricks to dislodging the starter and flywheel gears short of
pulling off the starter?  Thanks for the help.

Vrooom vrooom,
John
Erika the Red


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