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Starter Motor Problem
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 7:20 pm
by The Bird Man
Evening chaps, tried firing up the SJ today but the starter motor doesn't seem to engage with the fly wheel, ( Well not every time, it's hit and miss, more often than not it doesn't engage) The bendix spins and returns okay as I bench tested it but when I put it back on the engine it doesn't seem to catch. Any ideas to why this is ?
Re: Starter Motor Problem
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 7:26 pm
by timwilks13
What do the teeth on the fly wheel look like through the inspection hole on the bell housing?
Re: Starter Motor Problem
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 7:28 pm
by The Bird Man
Forgot to mention, the flywheel teeth all look good. No sign of ware, same on the bendix
Re: Starter Motor Problem
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 7:37 pm
by timwilks13
Does it sound like it's grinding as though it's flicking out but not catching or not flicking out? Can you hear the solenoid click?
Re: Starter Motor Problem
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 7:45 pm
by The Bird Man
The bendix is flicking out but not grinding on the flywheel, and yeah can hear the solenoid click
Re: Starter Motor Problem
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 7:50 pm
by ScottieJ
Are you using the 410 starter?
Re: Starter Motor Problem
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 7:52 pm
by The Bird Man
Yeah, tried to swap it with the 1.3 starter but realized it doesn't fit.
Re: Starter Motor Problem
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 8:34 pm
by ferris
Last time I had that problem it turned out to be a dodgy battery terminal. If I turned they key with the bonnet open you could see the terminal sparking when the starter kicked in.
Re: Starter Motor Problem
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 10:18 pm
by timwilks13
And mine used to do it if the battery didn't have enough juice.
Re: Starter Motor Problem
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 12:32 am
by twiss
Try and turn the drive gear in the starter by hand... it should only turn one way (does on all the ones I have anyway).
if not i believe its broken!