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starter problem
Hi guys. Today I installed a new starter on the rebuilt 3.2 engine. The starter turns
but doesn,t reaches the ring. I measured the distance from the starter mounting surface to the ring and got 51mm. The ring is too far. Later I tried another original Bosch starter and got the same result. The first starter was light weight HT starter.The sound is like I don,t have a ring at all. Can somebody tell me why the ring is too far. |
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06-30-2012, 02:07 PM
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Did you put a ring gear on the pressure plate? Are you sure you are not looking at the timing teeth on the flywheel?
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06-30-2012, 02:21 PM
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thank you Scott. Take a look at this short video. What do you see?[IMG]338[/IMG]
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06-30-2012, 02:43 PM
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sorry, can,t find how to insert video.
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06-30-2012, 02:44 PM
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Just take a picture.....
If the "gears" you see are 51mm (2 inches) in from the starter pinion gear, you are not looking at the ring gear.... Scott |
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06-30-2012, 02:58 PM
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rut row, me thinks you should see 2 sets of gears when you look in there, one is the sensor gear, the other is the starter gear.
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06-30-2012, 03:09 PM
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I will
51mm is from the starters body mounting surface which sticks to the transmision to the ring[?] Monty |
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06-30-2012, 03:10 PM
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Thanks guys. I feel like a champion of the stuppid questions.
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06-30-2012, 03:12 PM
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ok, it should have one of these flywheels with the tone ring on it
 then you have the pressure plate  with the starter ring gear bolted to it  that's what you have, right? clutch disk omitted but it's in there, right?
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07-01-2012, 09:55 PM
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no ring gear in my engine. Funny and stuppid storry. Thank you James.
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07-02-2012, 11:40 AM
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man, you are going to be so good at dropping engines. think of the good side
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07-02-2012, 12:26 PM
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You weren't the first to have made this mistake. Neither was I.
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07-02-2012, 12:54 PM
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It,s good to know I,m not alone
 Who want,s to start a new thread-- most stuppid thing I did to my car?
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07-03-2012, 02:44 AM
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+1 on looking on the bright side.
BTW - there are a good number of threads on peoples' mistakes already. Search 'oops', 'embarassing', 'stupidity', 'blunder', and 'bonehead', just to find a few. They're all instructive reading! Cheers, Mike
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07-03-2012, 06:00 AM
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LOL, I forgot to put on the ring gear once...boy, talk about making you feel dumb.
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07-03-2012, 06:19 AM
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Gretchen
