- 1. starter trouble on 1966 MGB (score: 1)
- Author: Dirk de Boer <deboer@duke.usask.ca>
- Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 15:59:30 -0600
- Question for you all: On my 1966 MGB once in a while the starter doesn't do anything. When I turn the key, the solenoid clicks, and that's all that happens. If I rotate the starter a little bit by ha
- /html/mgs/1999-05/msg00840.html (7,301 bytes)
- 2. Re: starter trouble on 1966 MGB (score: 1)
- Author: G Graham <ggraham@edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 18:03:00 -0400
- I KNEW if I waited long enough someone else would ask this one!! (Beating on the starter works too). Gary 74 B (B for balky starter) -- ^!!^ "iwlf" A
- /html/mgs/1999-05/msg00842.html (7,668 bytes)
- 3. Re: starter trouble on 1966 MGB (score: 1)
- Author: Robert Alan Reisse <rareisse@postoffice.worldnet.att.net>
- Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 18:35:47 -0400
- Most likely you have a starter that is starting to fail. The dead spot probably indicates a open in one of the windings. Turning it to another location (or tapping the starter) probably moves the con
- /html/mgs/1999-05/msg00844.html (7,991 bytes)
- 4. Re: starter trouble on 1966 MGB (score: 1)
- Author: niswongr@almaden.ibm.com
- Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 15:51:39 -0700
- Here is a perhaps silly suggestion, but the starter on my 74.5 B and I have been quite intimate in the past, and at least once this same thing happened to me. I had read that by rocking the car in ge
- /html/mgs/1999-05/msg00845.html (8,604 bytes)
- 5. Re: starter trouble on 1966 MGB (score: 1)
- Author: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 16:09:56 -0700
- I have to "me too" on this. Mine did this intermittently for years. Then the starter pinion decided to whack off a few flywheel teeth. Which then in turn exacted revenge by mangling the starter pinio
- /html/mgs/1999-05/msg00846.html (8,353 bytes)
- 6. Re: starter trouble on 1966 MGB (score: 1)
- Author: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 16:41:07 -0700
- niswongr@almaden.ibm.com had this to say: been I what I Not a silly suggestion at all (from the point of view of a modern, reasonable starter design), but in the '66 starter, the pinion is not pre-en
- /html/mgs/1999-05/msg00848.html (8,473 bytes)
- 7. RE: starter trouble on 1966 MGB (score: 1)
- Author: Hans Duinhoven <H.Duinhoven@simac.nl>
- Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 07:55:42 +0200
- Check the brushes of the commutator for wear. Replace brushes and/or have rotor machined. Cheers, Hans '71 MGBT
- /html/mgs/1999-05/msg00867.html (7,847 bytes)
- 8. Re: starter trouble on 1966 MGB (score: 1)
- Author: Maynard078@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 10:14:37 EDT
- Oops...sorry, listers...didn't mean to pepper you all with the magazine's web-site. My error, and I blame it on a lack of familiarity with these new-fangled fancy typewriters! Mind, Maynie!
- /html/mgs/1999-05/msg00882.html (7,122 bytes)
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