starter motor no go!!
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the flywheel on the engine is it yours or did you buy it ?? to put on the new engine also take the starter to the spares shop to check you have the right starter for the engine

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flywheel was already on the engine just put it back on. Looks the same fly wheel as the one on other turbo engine i took out of my mini, Which is verto.

Cheers matt

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Have you tried a different type of starter i.e inertia and not pre-engaged?
Its sounds like Tom suggested ring gear winding into flywheel hence locking it in place

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pre verto ring gear can be fitted to a verto flywheel.

The pre verto ring gear is different as it has angled edges on the inner wing side-this goes with a inertia starter

verto ring gear has plain teeth-this goes with pre engaged starter(the one with the solinoid on top)

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Hi,
I'm a little confused by the post mentioning the solenoid? If your using a pre engaged starter (read Verto) then you dont need a solenoid as it's built into the starter motor. So is your starter motor one cylinder shaped lump or two cylinder shaped lumps, piggybacked together?
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its one cylinder shaped lump with the starter solenoid fixed to the wing.

So am i using the wrong starter, assuming that i have the verto ring gear do i need a pre engaged starter?

Cheers matt

Edited by m4dn35s on 8th Apr, 2006.

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IIR then if there is 1 termainal on the starter then you need a solinoid, if there is 2 then you dont.....

Andy

actually just checked.

You should have a seperate solinoin if you starter has 1 (screw) terminal on it.

If not you strater will have a built in solinoid at the bottom of the unit. This will have 1 screw terminal and 2 spade terminals

yer its got one terminal on it, just looked at the ring gear well felt it as its in car and couldnt see it all that well but def feels sharper on the edges than the one on my other enginewhich is def verto,

so im wondering if the one on my new engine is a non-verto ring gear?!

think il try the non-verto starter and see if that works cos both starter motors iv tried so far are verto!

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Hi all, Thanks for all the advice.

finally found the right starter turned out to be the pre-engaged starter so i'v lenthened the wiring and am using that for now.

Works fine started engine for first time on sunday and runs a treat! Now jus got to set it up!

Cheers Matt

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Hi,
:cool: Glad you got it sorted! Thanks for letting us know too.
Cheers,
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