Starter bendix stuck in engaged position
I've got a 57 F100, and when I picked up the rebuilt starter to put it back in I slipped the bendix into the engaged position. I can't figure out how to disengage it and move the gear away from the starter housing.
Having it in this position is making it tough to remount the starter, as the gear and flywheel engaging seems to shift it slightly out of line. Can anybody help me disengage it? |
From what I can remember I used to put booster cables to the starter and battery and that would disengage it.
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I'm pretty sure you can grab a hold of it and force it back into posistion by hand. Under operating conditions, the momentum of the engine spinning sends it back. There is a lock pin in there that drops into a detent and keeps it there while the enigine is still coming up to speed.
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Booster cables didn't loosen it. Some pretty sparks though. :p
I can't move it back into position by hand - that's the problem. It's locked into what seems to be the engaged position and won't move back up the shaft. I took a picture of it to confirm that it is in the engaged position, but now I can't find my card reader, so I'll post that eventually. |
[QUOTE=hwoolsey;11251518] Booster cables didn't loosen it. Some pretty sparks though. :p
QUOTE] Bummer! I`m going by memory that may not be too accurate. I was thinking that by a few quick bursts it should have repositioned it`s self. |
By bumping the starter, that throws it out as it would to engage the fly wheel. It takes a bit to turn it back in by hand but it can be forced back.
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I haven't been into an old starter in the last 45 years. I seem to remember
putting something like a piece of card board, like a match from a matchbook up into the one spiral groove and getting it to ride up over the detent stop. I then had to be very careful not to let the drive extend while handling the starter. I may be way off as 45 years is a long time and the memory is slipping. |
Originally Posted by Fomoko1
(Post 11251152)
From what I can remember I used to put booster cables to the starter and battery and that would disengage it.
Originally Posted by Fomoko1
(Post 11251726)
Bummer! I`m going by memory that may not be too accurate. I was thinking that by a few quick bursts it should have repositioned it`s self.
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Originally Posted by ibuzzard
(Post 11255671)
Morris,hope you still offer that 1-year warranty for doling out bad advice.LOL!I've had to honor that warranty many times,myself.
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Originally Posted by ibuzzard
(Post 11255671)
Morris,hope you still offer that 1-year warranty for doling out bad advice.LOL!I've had to honor that warranty many times,myself.
I ordered a starter to flywheel housing seal to replace the crumbled one I took off, so I'm hoping that difference in position makes just enough of a change to get the bolts threaded. As best I can tell, this starter drive pulls the gear into the flywheel to start, rather than pushing it out into it. Given the placement of the flywheel and the shape of the drive, I don't think there's enough clearance for it to work the other way around. Am I just way off base here? |
As best I can tell, this starter drive pulls the gear into the flywheel to start, rather than pushing it out into it. Given the placement of the flywheel and the shape of the drive, I don't think there's enough clearance for it to work the other way around. Am I just way off base here? |
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If I remember correctly I used to spin the starter drive with a wire wheel the direction the flywheel would spin it, so it would move back to its origional position.
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Originally Posted by hwoolsey
(Post 11250662)
I've got a 57 F100, and when I picked up the rebuilt starter to put it back in I slipped the bendix into the engaged position. I can't figure out how to disengage it and move the gear away from the starter housing.
Having it in this position is making it tough to remount the starter, as the gear and flywheel engaging seems to shift it slightly out of line. Can anybody help me disengage it? https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.for...99ac0444d.jpeg As soon as I did that the bendix retracted easily. |
Originally Posted by twitbeck
(Post 11254588)
I haven't been into an old starter in the last 45 years. I seem to remember
putting something like a piece of card board, like a match from a matchbook up into the one spiral groove and getting it to ride up over the detent stop. I then had to be very careful not to let the drive extend while handling the starter. I may be way off as 45 years is a long time and the memory is slipping. |
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