stryped wrote:
On Dec 1, 1:11 pm, Don Foreman wrote:
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 10:52:20 -0800 (PST), stryped





wrote:
On Dec 1, 12:04 pm, Don Foreman
wrote:
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 05:48:09 -0800 (PST), 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?

Seehttp://www.indiacar.com/infobank/battery1_od.htm

The bendix drive won't engage if it is at all dirty or rusty. I had
the same problem last Saturday on my 20-year-old Tecumseh
SnowKing. A bit of Tri-Flo fixed it right up.

Was it hard to take apart or did you have to take it apart?

I didn't need to disassemble anything beyond dismounting the starter
from the engine. I just applied some Tri-Flo and worked the
mechanism back and forth until minor rust spots were knocked off and
it was working freely. When you push the button, the pinion should
move axially against the spring.- Hide quoted text -

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Here is a link to my starter, it is on page 24:
http://www.smallenginesuppliers.com/...nformation.pdf

Do I just remove the dust cap that is ahead of the pinion gear and
lube that? I have a feelign it wont be just that easy to fix. I bet it
has not worked in 20 years.

Check the pic in the lower left hand corner , the gear (overrunning clutch)
should slide freely on the spiral splines on the shaft . If not , remove
whatever you need to to get at that section - don't lose the spring or
circlip ...
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