[TR] TR3A flywheel bolt on ring gear

[William Brewer]

Hi Terry,     Once I took my rusty TR3A starter apart and cleans everything up and lubed it. I put it in the car and the starter just whirred away without cranking the engine. ISTR that I pulled the starter and discovered that I had installed something in the wrong order on the starter shaft and the starter gear didn't pop out and engage. I put it back together right and it worked fine afterwards. Did you take apart your starter while it was out?

     -Bill Brewer     Tehachapi, CA


Question:  were there different gear ratios on the ring gear?  Reason I ask, while I had the OD tranny out, I replaced the flywheel with a freshly machined one.  It had a somewhat better condition ring gear already bolted on.  I don't know the year of production of the replacement flywheel.  Bolted the same starter back in, but when I try to start the engine, the starter clicks and whirrs, but doesn't engage. Jumped it with a good battery, seems to be a strong electrical current going in.  Engine turns freely by hand even with the spark plugs still in.

Thoughts?

Terry Smith, '59 TR3A  TS 58667
New Hampshire where in a two day period it went from minus 20 degrees to in the 50's.  Gotta love New England!
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