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Fixed the squeal on my 5 HP Briggs & Stratton Tiller

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Will Herring

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Got some advice on here awhile back about the starter clutch or overrunning clutch or whatever it is called. Found a few youtube videos on how to take it apart. Pulled the pieces off and found it had some black gunk inside and it wouldn't turn very freely.

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So I shined up the shaft (emery cloth), cleaned up the bearings, and blew it all out. I used carb cleaner to help me rub the gunk off, then let the parts dry and then rubbed them off again with a clean rag.

Then I put oil only on the felt piece inside the tube thing (did my best to clean the junk out of this thing, too), reassembled, and started it up. No squealing to be heard! Hopefully it lasts a few years.
 
good job, always fun to try to fix something for first time and it works!! kinda makes up for the times when you know how to fix it and it still isnt right :(
 
Good to see someone that can wyrk on things.

When I clean up the starter as you did, I soak the felt pad in WD40 and a genourse amount on the shaft
 
Supposed to put 1-2 drops of oil in the hole of the clutch dog each year.
If you put the dog on the shaft first and then the ball bearings it works much easier. Do not oil the ball bearings; they are to stay dry.
 
Boy, that looks just like the old Montgomery Wards 5 hp tiller that I have! Its a good old girl! It smoked a lot when I got it but changing oil and putting 1 oz of Seafoam in the crankcase have pretty well stopped the smoking.
 
(quoted from post at 22:58:01 06/10/13) Supposed to put 1-2 drops of oil in the hole of the clutch dog each year.
If you put the dog on the shaft first and then the ball bearings it works much easier. Do not oil the ball bearings; they are to stay dry.
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If only it wasn't such a pain to get to the clutch dog. I hate taking that front cover off.

And yes -- thanks to reading on here and elsewhere, I knew to clean the bearings and compartment and leave that dry. Only the clutch dog gets oil on the felt.
 
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