<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yiv0817793233"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455824365905_9326"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455824365905_9325" style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div id="yiv0817793233"><div id="yiv0817793233yui_3_16_0_1_1455824365905_6585"><div id="yiv0817793233yui_3_16_0_1_1455824365905_6584" style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div id="yiv0817793233yui_3_16_0_1_1455824365905_3189">Hi Terry,</div><div id="yiv0817793233yui_3_16_0_1_1455824365905_3198"> 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?<br></div><div id="yiv0817793233yui_3_16_0_1_1455824365905_3241"><br></div><div id="yiv0817793233yui_3_16_0_1_1455824365905_3251" dir="ltr"> -Bill Brewer</div><div id="yiv0817793233yui_3_16_0_1_1455824365905_7131" dir="ltr"> Tehachapi, CA<br></div><div id="yiv0817793233yui_3_16_0_1_1455824365905_7130"><br></div><div id="yiv0817793233yui_3_16_0_1_1455824365905_3220"><br></div><div id="yiv0817793233yui_3_16_0_1_1455824365905_3219" dir="ltr">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.<br><br>Thoughts?<br><br>Terry Smith, '59 TR3A TS 58667<br>New Hampshire where in a two day period it went from minus 20 degrees to in the 50's. Gotta love New England!<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>