30-05-2020, 01:04 PM
Ivor,
That's almost exactly the issue I have and, interestingly, your starter seems to be running at a very similar speed to mine so at least I'm hopeful that electrically it may be OK. (Or neither yours nor mine are OK I guess).
Although my battery is new I had been thinking of putting it on charge as the voltage has now slightly dropped to around 6.27 volts but in light of your other tests that doesn't seem a likely solution.
I know you can fairly easily bend the pinion clip to reduce it's holding force but even this hasn't made enough difference for mine to work.
Actually I'm amazed that the pinion has enough inertia to cause it to move out of the clip so I suspect a lack of initial acceleration is the problem but what's causing it I've no real idea.
John.
That's almost exactly the issue I have and, interestingly, your starter seems to be running at a very similar speed to mine so at least I'm hopeful that electrically it may be OK. (Or neither yours nor mine are OK I guess).
Although my battery is new I had been thinking of putting it on charge as the voltage has now slightly dropped to around 6.27 volts but in light of your other tests that doesn't seem a likely solution.
I know you can fairly easily bend the pinion clip to reduce it's holding force but even this hasn't made enough difference for mine to work.
Actually I'm amazed that the pinion has enough inertia to cause it to move out of the clip so I suspect a lack of initial acceleration is the problem but what's causing it I've no real idea.
John.