Weird noise on start up

[ferris]

My SJ's been making this weird noise every time i start it up. Its been doing it for quite a while now, so probably time i got it sorted. Any ideas??


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[andyrew]

Sounds like the starter solenoid is lazy And sstaying engaged

Used to get it on my old skoda.

[Christoff]

Yeah that's the starter. Try bump starting it see if it goes away.

[Edweird]

Yeah, as above. Your starter is not disengaging properly after the engine starts.

[ferris]

Cheers guys. Do you recon its fixable if i strip it down and grease it up?

[Edweird]

Cheers guys. Do you recon its fixable if i strip it down and grease it up?

Probably. It could be the return spring if it's got one.

[Jordi]

Try a strip an clean. May just be full of crud.

Failing that i've found a few of my local independant auto electrics places to be very reasonable on pice for repair / refurb of parts.

May be worth a look

[turbo-tom]

Deffo starter motor. Strip it down and rebuild. The brushes are really fiddly I found rebuild the bushes around a bit of pipe and slide them down back in otherwise you will be there for ages!!

[twiss]

I think that is probably the drive gear spinning on the starter shaft...
the drive gear I believe is only supposed to spin around one way (so it can free wheel while disengaging, once the engine is started)

I would take the starter motor off and see if you can push the gear round both ways by hand/finger.
Otherwise I would have a spare starter ready in case! Mine was making that noise, and now it's dead!

[ferris]

All sorted now. Stripped it down greased every thing up and the noise has gone . Cheers guys.