[Shotimes] Clarification on: SHO cranking but not starting

[Alan Fanning]

I'm not disputing anyone's experience with starters having different numbers
of teeth, but in my case I found that the offset of the shaft that the
starter gear teeth is mounted on, relative to the flywheel, is increased
with a starter that has more teeth. So the teeth still mesh fine with the
flywheel.

    Alan

> I can't find it in my archives, but there are some starter motors
> with different number of teeth on the drive gears. That's why George
> Fourchy recommends getting *yours* rebuilt -- you know all the
> mechanicals are correct.
> 
> With this theory, the first starter was just weak -- probably worn
> brushes -- and the replacement has the wrong number of teeth. The
> problem is that I would expect with the wrong number of teeth to
> either not engage at all (the original poster did say:
> 
>>> When the starter is whirring, I noticed the serpentine belt was turning,
>>> though slower than what I'd think a normal crank would produce.
> 
> or I would expect some grinding noise as the gears slipped as well as
> whirring.
> 
> - Tom Teixeira