what does a blown starter sound like????

[pdspeh]

I think I killed my starter.
It sounds like I knocked the teeth off of ti.

She cranked at first and then just wines/spins.
no more crankin'
now a month or so ago is when it started to act like this ever other crank it would wines/spin.

now it just does it at a constant.

Am I right?

[andy d]

put the trans in neutral and put a wrench on the crank nut and turn the engine over a bit. retry the starter and see if it cranks. if it does, it sounds like a bad patch of ring gear.

[pdspeh]

ok, so if it's a bad patch of the ring gear? what's the solution?

or what's my worst case scenerio?

my wench hand is weaketh.

[SAustinwag]

The strater has to be engaging. If you knocked teeth off of the gear, it'd make racket and skip a litle, more likely is that the bendix went bad. I think thats what its called, anyways, its the thing that throws the gear out onto the flywheel, otherwise it's stay engaged all the time..

TAke the starter off, hook it up to a battery with jumper cables except for one lead, hold onto the starter and touch the cables to the positive (BE CAREFUL ITS GONNA JUMP) if the gear pops out and spins thats good, while your in there, check out your flywheel teeth by spinning the motor by hand

Good Luck!

[The Anti-Chrysler]

If it works ok after you turned the motor over by hand, then it is very likely that there is a patch of missing / damaged teeth on the flywheel. The only repair is to replace the flywheel.

Keep in mind that when an engine shuts off, it will always stop in one of a few exact places. It works that way for some reason I cannot remember, so that some teeth on the flywheel get used more often for engagement than others.

Your only real for sure check is indeed to remove the starter, and inspect the flywheel. Turn the engine over by hand as you look in the hole to see if teeth are gone.

[Zacko]

Take the starter off, wrap it in rags, take it down to the local Autozone and they will check it for you. Don't waste a lot of time checking everything else when a starter test is only a 20 minute job. It isn't that tough to pull it off.

[pdspeh]

Thanks everyone ..great advice as always.
now I feel more confident.
sounds like it could be either one.

I hope it's not the flywhell.

[mtn goat]

starters do this all the time. its a two bolt job. take it down have it tested and go from there.

[Blackjack]

I don't know what a blown starter sounds like but I'm sure it's smiling! :D

[CheapJeep]

Pdspeh-
let us know, mine sounds similar-
maybe i should come over (when mine runs again)
and we can have deuling starters!!
Scott

[SAustinwag]

funny GFD.... made me poop myself (too much A.M. coffee

[pdspeh]

very funny GFD.

I guess I will HEAD on down to my local mechanic today and get a new starter.

It turns out thta this one is still under warranty . my mech. friend put it in last year at his shop..and when I asked him about it he said , no big deal. I 'll have it done for nothing!!!!!