Geo Hahn
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Had a starter failure on a club drive yesterday -- tested as a dead short in the unit. Pulling it apart this morning I saw what I expected to see, the wrapping on the field coil had worn thru in a couple of spots -- this is likely the one that did me in:
Ooh that's ugly. Having gone this far I think I will try my hand at re-wrapping them. I have a roll of friction tape (hockey stick tape to those in Minnie-sooota) which I may try to cut in half (width wise). I know I don't want to build up the thickness much, just cover the winding.
Any of you done this? Friction tape sound like a reasonable thing?
Second question -- I'm thinking I should renew the bearings while I'm at it. In particular the front one seems to have some slop. I was expecting the armature to simply slide out then I would press out the bearing...
...but the armature doesn't readily move (other than a 1/32" movement front-to-back). Does it also get pressed out? As for this and the bearings -- is it reasonable to do this with a vise and a couple of sockets or whatever or should I not even attempt this w/o a press?
Note: I'm not interested in putting in a hi-torque starter, thanks for any other advice.
Ooh that's ugly. Having gone this far I think I will try my hand at re-wrapping them. I have a roll of friction tape (hockey stick tape to those in Minnie-sooota) which I may try to cut in half (width wise). I know I don't want to build up the thickness much, just cover the winding.
Any of you done this? Friction tape sound like a reasonable thing?
Second question -- I'm thinking I should renew the bearings while I'm at it. In particular the front one seems to have some slop. I was expecting the armature to simply slide out then I would press out the bearing...
...but the armature doesn't readily move (other than a 1/32" movement front-to-back). Does it also get pressed out? As for this and the bearings -- is it reasonable to do this with a vise and a couple of sockets or whatever or should I not even attempt this w/o a press?
Note: I'm not interested in putting in a hi-torque starter, thanks for any other advice.