It is likely the previous starter failed because the starter bendex was failing to fully engage, or was not holding the bendex gear in full contact with the ring gear, thus grinding off the leading edge of a section of flywheel teeth.
A motor has an uncanny habit of most frequently stopping at or near the same spot in rotation. [I do not know why, it is however very repeatable.] Thus, most common for a small segment of the flywheel teeth to become damaged, and not make full contact with the starter bendex teeth. Seems, yet again, history and machinery has repeated in this case... Pull engine and trans as an assembled unit... R&R Transmission, replace flywheel flex disc with new.. Assemble in reverse... Bobs your Uncle.. On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 8:44 AM Bob Rentfro via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > So...this dude told me “I replaced the starter I didn’t have enough money > to replace the flywheel. Catches on one spot on the flywheel. The car > starts good.” > What can I glean from this statement? What is happening here? It has 253K > miles on it he said. > What would i be looking at having to do if I picked this up? > > Bob R > > > https://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/cto/d/chandler-mercedes-240d-1983-diesel/6781609454.html > > > Sent from my iPad > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
