Determined
Well-known Member
Has anyone ever seen a chewed up ring gear with mushroomed over teeth, like the ones commonly seen on old tractors with 6 volt systems?
Some of them are messed up so bad that even a new drive gear has trouble engaging and quickly fails.
Most often seen on a neglected starter with poor connections that can not deliver enough power to crisply engage the drive and usually associated with a loose starter, excessive play in bearings or bushings, bent armature shaft, corrosion etc.
Often when you hook up one of those starters to a 12 volt battery and correct any of the problems listed above it does not take long for that firm engaging drive to clean up all of those burrs and create a real nice pattern when you check the mesh to the ring gear, this is assuming the starter was properly installed and shimmed as required.
Some of them are messed up so bad that even a new drive gear has trouble engaging and quickly fails.
Most often seen on a neglected starter with poor connections that can not deliver enough power to crisply engage the drive and usually associated with a loose starter, excessive play in bearings or bushings, bent armature shaft, corrosion etc.
Often when you hook up one of those starters to a 12 volt battery and correct any of the problems listed above it does not take long for that firm engaging drive to clean up all of those burrs and create a real nice pattern when you check the mesh to the ring gear, this is assuming the starter was properly installed and shimmed as required.
