Many cars that are on the road have "a" missing tooth on the flywheel. One way
that happens is when the car doesn't start easily, and the starter is actuated
and re-actuated many times without letting it fully stop in between. Another
way is that the Bendix drive begins to fail and doesn't engage properly. This
can "nick" a tooth, and eventually break it and others until starting the car
becomes nearly impossible, either from the lack of teeth on the fly wheel or
the total failure of the Bendix drive.
One tooth isn't so bad, but there are times when the engine stops in just the
right (or wrong) position to make the starter only partially engage in the
tooth. That puts stress on the next tooth, and sometimes even break it. The
more teeth that break off, the more often the starter will not engage, until
finally you find yourself sitting in a parking lot hitting the key over and
over again hoping that it will engage.
This is a disaster waiting to happen. You might as well bite the bullet and fix
it while you are young and healthy.
Paul
In a message dated 8/30/2004 7:37:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "Don Hudson"
<mopar4me@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>Missing teeth on the ring gear for an automatic is a pretty big deal. Ring
>gear is welded to the torque converter and to replace one needs to pull the
>transmission to get the converter out. When going that far, I think I would
>replace the converter with a new one rather than replace the ring gear on
>the old converter. Just my 2c.
>Don
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Rob P" <fristpenny@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 5:10 PM
>Subject: IML: Remember that '82 that wouldn't start?
>
>
>> You may remember that my car has several issues. For one, the car would
>not
>> always crank. Pursuant to instructions from Dick B and Dave Grove I used
>a
>> test light on the relay and determined juice as getting to the starter. I
>> ordered a mini-starter from Mancini. Well, when I finally got the old
>> starter off I found out at least one tooth is missing off the ring gear.
>> How big of a deal is this? The gear on the old starter is fine, but this
>> can't be good. What am I supposed to do now? How the heck does this even
>> happen?
>>
>> I have some time to decide about this because the ear broke off the brand
>> new ministarter when I was putting it on. Just past finger tight it just
>> snapped. To Mancini's credit they said to ship it back and they will send
>a
>> new one. Almost no questions asked. Needless to say, I spent the weekend
>on
>> my back, cursing. Be glad you don't live near me.
>>
>> Rob
>>
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