Helping during Harvey! (Now I need M925 starter)

[3poffroad]

Hey guys I was using my M925 for 2 weeks straight after Hurricane Harvey (I put over 100 hours on the poor girl! Everything was going just fine aside from some water in the diffs, but now all of a sudden the starter locked up. I moved it into its space last night and now this morning it just clunks, couple beats with a hammer and it'll spin about a quarter turn. We had water coming through the bottom of the doors about 3 times.

That being said, what is the best replacement starter? I am also doing all kinds of maintenance as I'm pretty sure I smoked a wheel bearing and both my front axle boots are torn to ****!

Here's some pics! We even had the Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick with us in my rig for 2 days!

 

[3poffroad]

Here is some more I'll try to upload as many as I can

 

[swbradley1]

Get a gear reduction starter whatever you get. I had one (gimpy) put on my M813 and it works like a dream. Low power requirements that allow you to dump two batteries.

You won't regret it and good job.

 

[juanprado]

contact 74m35a2 for the best deal on a gear reduction starter as swbradley recommended. Less amps and turns over faster

 

[armytruck63]

Just to assure yourself, pull the injectors and try cranking or bar over the engine. Hopefully you don't have a hydrolock situation.

 

[dmetalmiki]

Well done you, Have a HUGE pat on the back and an equally (deserved) large thank you, (As) Your presence must have been greatly appreciated. Service your truck as per the T.M. on deep water fording.

 

[AndyT]

I had mine do the same thing... starter was fine. Took all the connections off and cleaned/tightened. After 6+feet of water for the same time period (same storm) my connections had corroded and loosened.

The windings probably grew some corrosion as well... I had to jump the leads to free it up. Runs just fine now.

 

[74M35A2]

As stated, first make sure the engine turns freely. A starter can be submerged and continue working ok, but the key point is it needs to be cycled a lot and warmed up for a long time to get the water out before it corrodes the steel parts. This is only a 2-3 day window tops to get it done. A shot of WD-40 to the internals can prevent needing to do this, but can be hard or impossible to do without removing it, so it generally doesn't happen.

Just put a breaker bar with socket on the crank pulley and give it a tug either direction. It is a lot of work to remove the injectors on these engines, and if it was running after the water driving and/or water never reached the air filter container, it probably never inhaled any.

If after your engine is confirmed free to rotate, and you do need a starter, you have a free one coming your way. PM me the ship to address. I would be sending you the same one swbradley1 and a few others here are using. It is very giving of you to take on damage to your belongings for the benefit of others.

 

[papabear]

As stated, first make sure the engine turns freely. A starter can be submerged and continue working ok, but the key point is it needs to be cycled a lot and warmed up for a long time to get the water out before it corrodes the steel parts. This is only a 2-3 day window tops to get it done. A shot of WD-40 to the internals can prevent needing to do this, but can be hard or impossible to do without removing it, so it generally doesn't happen.

Just put a breaker bar with socket on the crank pulley and give it a tug either direction. It is a lot of work to remove the injectors on these engines, and if it was running after the water driving and/or water never reached the air filter container, it probably never inhaled any.

If after your engine is confirmed free to rotate, and you do need a starter, you have a free one coming your way. PM me the ship to address. I would be sending you the same one swbradley1 and a few others here are using. It is very giving of you to take on damage to your belongings for the benefit of others.

You're both good troops!! Thank you for being good Americans.

 

[WV New Guy]

I was following Andy here and 3pOffroad on Instagram you guys did unbelievable work to rescue the public with your trucks . Great Americans !

 

[3poffroad]

Thanks guys I just left the shop and turned the motor over by hand with a breaker bar so it's not locked up. Thank you for the kind words and your selfless donation 74M35A2, it means a lot good sir.

And WV New Guy thank you as well! We tried keeping our social media going as our original post was shared 7K times and led to us getting a group of over 200 boats and 500 volunteers that were dispatched from us to help people!