One man's problem is another man's nightmare........
I'll give ya $500 for it....LOL
Just keep plugging away and you will finally get it finished...
Got to much into it now to give up..
Ok, pulled the starter and drive gears were mangled. Well ****..
So off to Fort Worth Generator and Starter. I talked to Molly, the counter godess, and asked her what I should do, other than sell it and start taking the bus everywhere.
She said they could fix it, but it would be 8 days. At this point, since my car bit it, this is the closest thing to a running vehicle I have, other than my wifes jeep. Ever see a 6'6" tall 400 pound American Indian try to drive a Jeep TJ? it isn't pretty, and violates severl laws of physics. I asked her if it was something I could myself, and she handed me the new drive gear assembly. and pointed out that I really should replace the nose of it, but she was out of them. I endevored to perservere.
We stopped by the cheby house and got a bracket...it's a gear reduction 24v starter, and then went home and took it apart.
These things come apart suprisingly easy....way too easy....especially the brush end which you don't actually want to come apart. within a few minutes I had the guts spread out all over my tailgate trying to figure out how to get the drive gear off the main shaft of the thing. I stoped short of using a hammer.
I tried to call Molly at home (I screw up a lot of car stuff so I keep her number on my cell phone) but she didn't answer.
Luckily, Delco-Remy has the manual to the gear reduction starter HERE:
http://www.delcoremy.com/pdfs/service_manuals/current/1M-128.pdf
and it explained to to get it off you are supposed to use a hammer. You drive back the pinion stop and then pry the little jesus clip back out, the somehow get it all off the shaft. It also said you were supposed to mark the housing so that it could go back togeather the same way it came apart. Sigh....
I finally got the stop off (all the blood from my fingers helped lubricate it) and got gear changed out -- this is where the manual says to install a new stop and jesus clip. I didn't have one, so I put the old one back on. The clip was pretty well sprung by this pint so I had to use a little pic to get it to slide under the stop but the starter is now back togeather and ready to install, and molly finally got back to me and said there is a small chance that if I didn't get the body aligned right it will spin backwards.
Finally got the starter installed, motor spins good and fast and tries to run as long as the starter is spinning. As soon as I let off though, it dies....letting the start cool down for a bit.
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