I pulled the starter from my banger last night as it was not connecting with the flywheel,.....just zinging away!!!! When I pulled it, the large spring was broken, the flange thats attached to the spur gear was broken off. I tried to just replace the spring and see if would work.......no dice. The starter i pulled the spring from was a flathead V8...............SO my question is, how do I get the gear ***y off the Banger starter??? It seems to be placed on the shaft and then centre punched at the joint ?????? but the V8 one is held in by a half moon key?????......... I just want to get the whole V8 one on there as it is complete and not broken........thats ***uming the shafts are the matching dia :/
The model A bendix is held in by a key too. The out board spring bolt acts like set screw and indexes into a spot drilled hole on the shaft. Remove that bolt and slide the end piece of the bendix off of the shaft. If that will not come of, the end of the shaft is probably mushroomed. This end piece has to come off separately because the key way is only cut in this piece. Remove the key. Remove the helix and gear ***y. You should have a bare shaft ( HaHa I said bare shaft) Install the V-8 "barrel type bendix with the gear toward the starter motor. Slide it all of the way on so that the key way is exposed. install the key. slide the bedix back so that the set screw is lined up with the spot drilled hole in the shaft. tighten set screw. Use blue lock ***e on the set screw. If you want more piece of mind, peen the end of the threads on the body of the bendix after you have tightened the set screw to lock it in place. <!-- / icon and ***le --> <!-- message --> If the shaft is mushroomed, drive the end piece down toward the starter motor and file a champher on the end of the shaft. You have to remove the end piece and key before the rest of the bendix can come off. .
Thanks 'bare shaft' whoooops I mean 'crazydaddyo' and BCC, thats the exact info I needed, i will attack it tonight and see how I go.
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