Hi everyone! I am doing up my grandfathers tractor and Im now onto trying to fix the starter motor mechanism. As long as my father can remember its always been started with the handle.
So I started off by bridging the terminals under the battery box (the gearstick wont go into the starting gear) and the starter span but didnt engage in the flywheel. So I took the starter off expecting the pinion to be sticky, and thats why it wasnt cranking. How ever it was very free and can push it out with a finger. So I then decided to bench test it. I hooked it up to the battery (6V, positive earth) and tested it. To my surprise it started turning clockwise! It should be turning anti-clockwise. So I thought I must have the wires on wrong so I swapped it to negative earth and it still spun clockwise. So now Im stumped... any ideas what would cause this?
The tractor is a Continental Z120 engine and the starter motor is a Lucas 25519E.
Thanks in advance for any help.
So I started off by bridging the terminals under the battery box (the gearstick wont go into the starting gear) and the starter span but didnt engage in the flywheel. So I took the starter off expecting the pinion to be sticky, and thats why it wasnt cranking. How ever it was very free and can push it out with a finger. So I then decided to bench test it. I hooked it up to the battery (6V, positive earth) and tested it. To my surprise it started turning clockwise! It should be turning anti-clockwise. So I thought I must have the wires on wrong so I swapped it to negative earth and it still spun clockwise. So now Im stumped... any ideas what would cause this?
The tractor is a Continental Z120 engine and the starter motor is a Lucas 25519E.
Thanks in advance for any help.