Starter replacement

[Uncle Laulau]

By far the easiest thing I have done to the truck so far, has to be taking off the starter. A couple wires and two bolts. I'm sitting around waiting for the part to come into the store and decided to put one of those fancy looking breather filters on my valve cover. I disconnected the vent from the weber a couple weeks ago and it starts up so much easier after its warm.

 

I ordered a 620 starter and it looks identical to the one I took off. The old starter was making it seem like I had a dead battery, cranking super slow or not at all. It would also miss the fly wheel and spin free at times. It looked super old. I was toying with the idea of bad battery cables. I looked at em one more time and I can't spot any signs of corrosion or ware at all, they look almost new. So I went with the starter and we shall see. In a couple of hours it will be in and I'll update. After that I'm going fishing by golly. That is after my homework wa wa waaaaa

[jefe de jefes]

Miss the flywheel?

 

Maybe you have some worn/broken teeth on the flywheel

[datzenmike]

The START position should send a 12 violt signal from the key to the starter solenoid but theproblem with 40 year old wiring is that sometimes you end up with much much less. This canm cause the solenoid to not pull the srar gear on the end strongly into position on the flywheel ring gear and it grinds or judt sins the starter motor. My 710 had intermittant starter operation and I threw on a spare expecting this to cure it. It didn't. The solenoid was only getting about 5 volts. To fix this I used this 5 volts to energize a relay that used shorted run wires directly from the battery. That was over a year ago and it has never done this again. If your new starter keeps doing this then you may need to put a hot start relay in.