Slumlord
Jr. Member
Gang,
For those of you that don’t know I’ve been having some kind of electrical / starter problems. So far, I took the battery in to be tested and charged this AM but found that the battery was right on the money and didn’t need to be charged one bit. I thought I better pull the starter and visibly inspect it then take it in to be bench tested. Well, I didn’t need the bench test because it’s pretty obvious that my starter is trashed. The pictures below show what I saw when I pulled her off and that was a really messed up starter. The little metal plate inside it looks like it flipped up somehow and got caught in between the gear sprockets between the fly wheel and the starter gear. This, in turn, lead to some grinding on the fly wheel (as you can see from the 2nd picture). I’m pretty sure that the flywheel is ok, it’s pretty burly plus I’ll find out when the new starter is installed and I crank it. Geez, that would be really bad if the fly wheel was ruined, talk about some major work…
There were all kinds of metal shavings scattered inside the housing and, as you can see from the 3rd picture, larger particles in there as well. Two weird springs, a small metal peg and a twisted chard of metal. All I can say is, Wow.
I went to Napa and purchased a new remanufactured starter (you can only get reman’s, they do not make new starters, anywhere) with a lifetime warranty, their top of the line model, completely rebuilt. While I was there, I found that the starter I had was a rebuilt Bosche from 2001. Since it was this new, you’d think I’d have no problems, right? Wrong. It turns out that this starter was for a newer Bronco (‘70’s) and although it fit, it wasn’t perfect.
So, I spent some time cleaning out the housing so that there are no more metal shavings (a mix of air spray and a rag) or any other foreign particles. I have yet to install the new starter, it got a little too cold so tomorrow is the day of reckoning.
Thanks again for all your help gang, I’ll post on this thread how it ends up going.
For those of you that don’t know I’ve been having some kind of electrical / starter problems. So far, I took the battery in to be tested and charged this AM but found that the battery was right on the money and didn’t need to be charged one bit. I thought I better pull the starter and visibly inspect it then take it in to be bench tested. Well, I didn’t need the bench test because it’s pretty obvious that my starter is trashed. The pictures below show what I saw when I pulled her off and that was a really messed up starter. The little metal plate inside it looks like it flipped up somehow and got caught in between the gear sprockets between the fly wheel and the starter gear. This, in turn, lead to some grinding on the fly wheel (as you can see from the 2nd picture). I’m pretty sure that the flywheel is ok, it’s pretty burly plus I’ll find out when the new starter is installed and I crank it. Geez, that would be really bad if the fly wheel was ruined, talk about some major work…
There were all kinds of metal shavings scattered inside the housing and, as you can see from the 3rd picture, larger particles in there as well. Two weird springs, a small metal peg and a twisted chard of metal. All I can say is, Wow.
I went to Napa and purchased a new remanufactured starter (you can only get reman’s, they do not make new starters, anywhere) with a lifetime warranty, their top of the line model, completely rebuilt. While I was there, I found that the starter I had was a rebuilt Bosche from 2001. Since it was this new, you’d think I’d have no problems, right? Wrong. It turns out that this starter was for a newer Bronco (‘70’s) and although it fit, it wasn’t perfect.
So, I spent some time cleaning out the housing so that there are no more metal shavings (a mix of air spray and a rag) or any other foreign particles. I have yet to install the new starter, it got a little too cold so tomorrow is the day of reckoning.
Thanks again for all your help gang, I’ll post on this thread how it ends up going.