Topica Loopframe_Guzzi Archive


Subject: RE: Intermittent starter problem

Author: Lannis

Date: Jul 6, 2005, 2:53 PM

Post ID: 1719124320




Patrick Hayes wrote:
 

 
DO NOT omit the gasket on reassembly and DO NOT fabricate another gasket

from thinner material. The gasket thickness appears to play a minor but

important role in the "timing" of the starter motor functions. One
function is to drive the starter pinion forward into the flywheel teeth.

The second function is to spin the starter motor. You DO NOT want to
get the starter spinning before the pinion teeth are engaged or you risk

some serious flywheel damage.

Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA

Patrick -

Suppose, just suppose (now this is just a rhetorical question, I didn't
REALLY destroy the old gasket and neglect to put another one in), that
someone (some other guy, call him Clem since we're just pretending) DID
tear up the old gasket and throw it away and forgot to put another one
one. (What a dummy he'd be, supposing there was such a feller, eh?).

So where would Clem get another gasket, just speaking theoretically? Do
the MG Cycle and Moto Internationals sell the right ones, or is this a
do-it-yourself? (I mean do it HIMself, of course, since this is some
other dude.)

And if the gasket can't be obtained, what sort of material would you
suggest that the new one be made of? Maybe you got one you could
measure and let us know? (Just in case there WAS such a guy).

Thanks for expounding your experience for us, and for this virtual guy
who doesn't exist.....!

Lannis

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