On Dec 1, 8:17*am, Carl wrote:
On Dec 1, 8:48 am, stryped wrote:

I took that old techmseh apart his weekend. I had a question. It is
electric start and has never worked that I can remember. I could
always hear it spin when we tried to use it and assumed that teeth
were missing on the flywheel. But this wekend when I took it apart,
all the teeth were on both the pinion gear and the flywheel. When I
connected the starter to voltage, it spun. The problem seems to be
that the pinion gear is about half an inch or more from the flywheel
gear and the two never come in contact. Is the pinion gear on the
starter supposed to "move forward" when voltage is supplied to engage
the teeth? What could this problem be?

On the Briggs starters I have played with the plastic pinion on the
starter is on a plastic helical thread and moves forward to engage the
flywheel ring gear, spring pressure keeps the pinion away from the
flywheel when the engine is running.

CarlBoyd

SO how would i fix this?