Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 3:21 am
Most of time this is the culprit.
Pic 1 shows where it is located.Yes complete motor disassembly to get at culprit.
Pic 2,3 shows the spring that holds Pawls(bearings)in cage.This is what wears or breaks and causes issues.Notice kinks in spring that is start of failure.
Pic 4(left) is a spring I removed from a seal.Wrong length but I am sure a replacement spring can be found of correct size.Only issue I have is most of these springs in seals are made a circle by screwing ends into each other.The starter clutch spring kind of looks to be made a circle by intertwining a ways.
replacing spring and cleaning up bearing surface would fix most for under a few $'s(cost of seal for spring)BUT whole assembly is about $50 new.Then again it all adds up at rebuild time.Not sure if its worth trying this fix since if it fails motor has to come apart.Let me know what you think.
Pic 1 shows where it is located.Yes complete motor disassembly to get at culprit.
Pic 2,3 shows the spring that holds Pawls(bearings)in cage.This is what wears or breaks and causes issues.Notice kinks in spring that is start of failure.
Pic 4(left) is a spring I removed from a seal.Wrong length but I am sure a replacement spring can be found of correct size.Only issue I have is most of these springs in seals are made a circle by screwing ends into each other.The starter clutch spring kind of looks to be made a circle by intertwining a ways.
replacing spring and cleaning up bearing surface would fix most for under a few $'s(cost of seal for spring)BUT whole assembly is about $50 new.Then again it all adds up at rebuild time.Not sure if its worth trying this fix since if it fails motor has to come apart.Let me know what you think.