Todd,
Can you draw a diagram of that inspection process? I'm trying to picture
how you do that (without busting up laughing).
1) hood open, lay cross-wise over the engine bay and hang over the left
fender and insert head into wheelwell with wheel cranked to right.
-or-
2) lay on the ground with your head in there and crawl sideways as the car
moves.
I don't think some of these guys should ask their wives to move the cars while
the he's in there. ("Honey, where is your insurance policy?") ;)
How about this:
* Michael mounts his video camera with a light source, and tapes the action,
playing it back later on.
Fred - So.SF, CA
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>Subject: Re: Starter / Compression
>Author: tosborn <trosborn@california.com>
>Date: 10/18/2000 3:15 PM
>
>Michael,
>Another [perhaps remote] possibility is a broken or badly worn tooth on
>the ring-gear (flywheel). Most of the time engine inertia will allow a
>jump over one bad tooth, but if its on the end of a compression stroke
>the engine slows down and you get a pinion to ring gear clash. Brings
>things to a pretty abrupt halt, only solutions is to replace the
>flywheel. BTW this problem is easy to inspect on the car, all you need
>to do is remove the starter (5 minutes tops), scoot into the left
>wheelwell, stick your head between the frame and the body so you can see
>the ring gear teeth and have someone slow move the car (best done with
>the car in 5th gear, slowly rolling, match scoot speed to vehicle
>motion) so you can inspect all the teeth. <G> Maybe marking a tooth with
>paint and using a mirror would be better. Let's hope this is not the
>problem.
>
>Todd "former clutch rider" Osborn - please don't tell Mark.
>68 2L DATSFUN
>San Jose, CA
>
>CalSpeed@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> For the past few years my starter has been acting strange. Sometimes
>it crnaks nice but then it started to stall when the motor has been
>driven for awhile and it got alittle hot. One of the things that it has
>done was to stall out temporarily while cranking. It sounded like it
>was cranking three cylinders and then the fourth it would stall or
>hesitate until it passed over that cylinder.
>
>> > Any ideas?
>> >
>> > Calspeed
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