[Healeys] air ducting kit

[josef-eckert at t-online.de]

Can only support Kees´s comments.
Additionally to Kees´s coomments gear reduction starters gear in on the 
wrong side of the flywheel and usually damage the gear teeth of the 
flywheel over time. Not recommended.
When an original Austin-Healey starter motor doesn´t crank the engine, most 
times it is bad wiring or engine earth cable. When the original starter 
motor cranks the engine and it doesn´t fire up, there is something wrong 
with the ignition or fuel supply.
Josef Eckert
 
 
 
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Betreff: Re: [Healeys] air ducting kit
Datum: 2021-06-06T09:03:22+0200
Von: "kees via Healeys" <healeys at autox.team.net>
An: "Roger Grace" <roggrace at telus.net>, "Bob Spidell" 
<bspidell at comcast.net>
 
 
 
Gear reduction starters for classic cars are usually modified items from 
modern cars. Often the cheapest starters are chosen to modify. I often hear 
stories about bad reliability. The original starters in our old bangers 
have survived well over half a century of neglect and if going wrong are 
imminently rebuildable. Why replacing something that is working perfectly 
fine?
If you are worried about the starter take it out, dismantle, clean, 
lubricate the bearings (but no oil on the shaft and the inertia gear, just 
some graphite powder) and it will be good for another 50 years or so. In 
very rare instances the collector may need some attention on a lathe, 
undercutting the insulation and new brushes. Sometimes the bronze bushes 
need replacing due to lack of maintenance, did you ever supply a drop of 
oil to the rear bearing bush?!!

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