Unexpected mishap...with pics!

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Unexpected mishap...with pics!

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:hi: Guys,

This is not a query but rather sharing my experience of an issue that kinda puzzled me for a day :oops: Maybe it could help someone here :hug:

So here goes...

Last week Monday my car refused to start (yay no work for me :hurray: ) First I suspected the starter gave in, so jacked the car up & stripped out the starter & noticed some unusual wear.

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Anyways tested the starter & all seemed fine, but decided to strip & check if brushes & coil was ok... all looked perfect. Tried again with a starter from my friends Citi Golf & still the same. It sounded like the starter was spinning freely... :fear:

Checked that the starter bush was in the correct place then noticed something strange when look through starter hole on the gearbox...
dropped the box & this is what I found

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The ring gear from my flywheel decided to seperate from the flywheel & was spinning freely inside the box :crazy: :crazy:

stripped the flywheel & took it to the engineers who fitted the ring gear back & balanced the flywheel & all is well now.

Honestly the first time I have ever seen this happen.. ever! This happened over a day or so as was quite baffled & never suspected what happened to have happened.
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:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
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wow that's definitely a first time I'm seeing that!!
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Yupp even the engineers were at a loss for words :lol:

not sure if because I have a lightened flywheel... but had this flywheel in my car almost 5years before the divorce happened
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Solo786 wrote:after you bust the rsi , should have put down the window and asked "Do you even lift bro?"
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Didnt even know that's possible.... :eek:
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Naku786 wrote:Yupp even the engineers were at a loss for words :lol:

not sure if because I have a lightened flywheel... but had this flywheel in my car almost 5years before the divorce happened
and a ring gear is an interference type fitment, it should never come loose :eek:


you got a flux capacitor strapped to that starter motor?
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PoLonY wrote:
Naku786 wrote:Yupp even the engineers were at a loss for words :lol:

not sure if because I have a lightened flywheel... but had this flywheel in my car almost 5years before the divorce happened
and a ring gear is an interference type fitment, it should never come loose :eek:


you got a flux capacitor strapped to that starter motor?
Ko4 ekse... turbo start :driving:
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Naku786 wrote:
PoLonY wrote:
Naku786 wrote:Yupp even the engineers were at a loss for words :lol:

not sure if because I have a lightened flywheel... but had this flywheel in my car almost 5years before the divorce happened
and a ring gear is an interference type fitment, it should never come loose :eek:


you got a flux capacitor strapped to that starter motor?
Ko4 ekse... turbo start :driving:
hahahaha, wun tym ekse cuzzie :lol:

Well done Naku, one for the record books!!! So now down in deben you be tjooning the ring gears as well bru :hug:
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Naku

You a legand.. Only these things happen to you... Lmao
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how in the hell?
It is an ingenius solution to a problem that should have never existed in the 1st place...

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Did you gasflow and undercut that ring gear before putting it back?

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My grandfather once told me of how the ring gear on his cortina wore off and he had to get a new one heat tempered on, but I have never in my life seen one come off like that just from normal use.
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Yupp baffled many people with this lol... My tuner just starred at the ring gear in disbelief & kept on shaking his head :lol:
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Use Qbond next time :grin:
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What size starter do you use? :lol:
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