stirlinga
02-19-2005, 07:10 PM
I'm stumped. For the last month I have noticed my starter dying. Ending with not being able to start at all two days ago. So, today I have the time to fiddle with it. It's been making noises so I decided to pull it out and take it apart on the bench (kitchen floor). All goes well, I clean the brushes, commutator etc.. reinstall it with new electrical cables, and clean all grounding connections, which I assumed was the problem in the first place. First try it fires up on the first revolution, and works better than it ever has. Now here comes the annoying bit. I shut it off, and get cleaned up. The wife wants to take it to work so she gets in and it doesn't do anything but whir, and every so often make some grinding noises. I assume a stuck bendix... so I pull it, spray it down with lots of WD-40, and it will snap back into place with the force of the spring. Reinstall, same deal. I pull it again, and bench test it with the battery, and it sparks like crazy. So I test it with the DMM and there is very little resistance between the positive post, and the chassis of the starter. So, I'm guessing I've got a short somewhere. But where? Any ideas where to start testing?
Thanks, guess I'm going to be getting lots of practice with that starter handle. Here's a pic so this thread won't be worthless.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/suntzu_2002/starter.jpg
Thanks, guess I'm going to be getting lots of practice with that starter handle. Here's a pic so this thread won't be worthless.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/suntzu_2002/starter.jpg