Re: Starter won't crank

Posted by PackardV8 On 2011/12/9 16:15:30

Check the armature. Sometimes the windings at the commutator connection gets loose. Not sure there is any visual way to inspect. Probably no meter readings either,

I got into this situation about 8 years ago. The generator shop used a torch and somehow or another resoldered or reconnected the commmutator end. To this day i really do not understand it. At the time, i was standing right there watching the process with my very own eyes. I thot at the time the armature has been ruined. I put it in and it works just fine. To this day i am still baffled about the process. It really makes no sense whatsoever in view of the fact that the windings have a very thin kind of coating insulation on them that any reasonable person would quickly assume would have metled away under the heat of a torch.