Hi, Bill. Nope, didn't take the starter apart. It worked fine before I
changed the ring gear and flywheel assembly. In fact, I'd had it rebuilt last
year. Am wondering if I have a mismatch on the old gear reduction starter and
the replaced ring gear.
I'll pull it this weekend. Is it possible to install these upside down? Not
that I would of course. That would be stoooopid. I have never been that.
Well, once, maybe. Maybe twice. Maybe twice a year, or was it day, or what
was it I did wrong twice in the past ten minutes??????
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Brewer" <billbrewer59@yahoo.com>
To: "Triumphs List" <triumphs@autox.team.net>, terryrs@comcast.net
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2016 2:56:31 PM
Subject: TR3A flywheel bolt on ring gear
Hi Terry,    Once I took my rusty TR3A starter apart and cleans everything
up and lubed it. I put it in the car and the starter just whirred away without
cranking the engine. ISTR that I pulled the starter and discovered that I had
installed something in the wrong order on the starter shaft and the starter
gear didn't pop out and engage. I put it back together right and it worked fine
afterwards. Did you take apart your starter while it was out?
    -Bill Brewer    Tehachapi, CA
Question: were there different gear ratios on the ring gear? Reason I ask,
while I had the OD tranny out, I replaced the flywheel with a freshly machined
one. It had a somewhat better condition ring gear already bolted on. I
don't know the year of production of the replacement flywheel. Bolted the
same starter back in, but when I try to start the engine, the starter clicks
and whirrs, but doesn't engage. Jumped it with a good battery, seems to be a
strong electrical current going in. Engine turns freely by hand even with the
spark plugs still in.
Thoughts?
Terry Smith, '59 TR3AÂ TS 58667
New Hampshire where in a two day period it went from minus 20 degrees to in the
50's. Gotta love New England!
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