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Corvette
General Corvette Discussion
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<blockquote data-quote="taylorsk8" data-source="post: 12076" data-attributes="member: 33"><p>Ya I just like to bug you!</p><p></p><p>So I pulled the starter. Wiped it off (still looks basically brand new). Hooked it to a battery just to see. Spins and pinion moved out all the way. Good. Pulled the solinoid off just to see. Holds the pin when power supplied. Good. Test fit it without the solinoid so I could maunally enguage the pinion. Definetly meshes the ring gear. BUT then off in the distance we bumped teh starter and it moved, now the pinion is barely enguaged! As far as I can tell the mount holes are sloppy enough that you can make it fully enguage or barley enguage just by how/where you torque up the bolts. So I figure somewhere along the lines the starter shifted just a tiny little bit and that is what the grinding noise was. The pinion probably was only enguaging on every third or fourth tooth depending on how it was jumping. This is why the crank was still turning but not fast enough to start. Anyway. Got the starter back in and set..Fired it up. Nice and quiet like it should be. Shut it off. Talk for a bit. Fire it up again. Still quiet. Good. Put flywheel cover back on. put heat sheild wrap back on. Try it again. Nice and smooth. So YAY! I think it is fixed. I went for a 9:30PM 1 mile cruise just to feel good. My only question is why would they make the starter with enough slop in the starter to have it disenguage?</p><p></p><p>T</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="taylorsk8, post: 12076, member: 33"] Ya I just like to bug you! So I pulled the starter. Wiped it off (still looks basically brand new). Hooked it to a battery just to see. Spins and pinion moved out all the way. Good. Pulled the solinoid off just to see. Holds the pin when power supplied. Good. Test fit it without the solinoid so I could maunally enguage the pinion. Definetly meshes the ring gear. BUT then off in the distance we bumped teh starter and it moved, now the pinion is barely enguaged! As far as I can tell the mount holes are sloppy enough that you can make it fully enguage or barley enguage just by how/where you torque up the bolts. So I figure somewhere along the lines the starter shifted just a tiny little bit and that is what the grinding noise was. The pinion probably was only enguaging on every third or fourth tooth depending on how it was jumping. This is why the crank was still turning but not fast enough to start. Anyway. Got the starter back in and set..Fired it up. Nice and quiet like it should be. Shut it off. Talk for a bit. Fire it up again. Still quiet. Good. Put flywheel cover back on. put heat sheild wrap back on. Try it again. Nice and smooth. So YAY! I think it is fixed. I went for a 9:30PM 1 mile cruise just to feel good. My only question is why would they make the starter with enough slop in the starter to have it disenguage? T [/QUOTE]
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