Unexpected mishap...with pics!
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Unexpected mishap...with pics!
Guys,
This is not a query but rather sharing my experience of an issue that kinda puzzled me for a day Maybe it could help someone here
So here goes...
Last week Monday my car refused to start (yay no work for me ) First I suspected the starter gave in, so jacked the car up & stripped out the starter & noticed some unusual wear.
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...
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
The ring gear from my flywheel decided to seperate from the flywheel & was spinning freely inside the box
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.
This is not a query but rather sharing my experience of an issue that kinda puzzled me for a day Maybe it could help someone here
So here goes...
Last week Monday my car refused to start (yay no work for me ) First I suspected the starter gave in, so jacked the car up & stripped out the starter & noticed some unusual wear.
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...
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
The ring gear from my flywheel decided to seperate from the flywheel & was spinning freely inside the box
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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Solo786 wrote:after you bust the rsi , should have put down the window and asked "Do you even lift bro?"
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Re: Unexpected mishap...with pics!
HOWIE-WP,
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Re: Unexpected mishap...with pics!
wow that's definitely a first time I'm seeing that!!
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Re: Unexpected mishap...with pics!
Yupp even the engineers were at a loss for words
not sure if because I have a lightened flywheel... but had this flywheel in my car almost 5years before the divorce happened
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....
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Re: Unexpected mishap...with pics!
and a ring gear is an interference type fitment, it should never come looseNaku786 wrote:Yupp even the engineers were at a loss for words
not sure if because I have a lightened flywheel... but had this flywheel in my car almost 5years before the divorce happened
you got a flux capacitor strapped to that starter motor?
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Ko4 ekse... turbo startPoLonY wrote:and a ring gear is an interference type fitment, it should never come looseNaku786 wrote:Yupp even the engineers were at a loss for words
not sure if because I have a lightened flywheel... but had this flywheel in my car almost 5years before the divorce happened
you got a flux capacitor strapped to that starter motor?
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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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hahahaha, wun tym ekse cuzzieNaku786 wrote:Ko4 ekse... turbo startPoLonY wrote:and a ring gear is an interference type fitment, it should never come looseNaku786 wrote:Yupp even the engineers were at a loss for words
not sure if because I have a lightened flywheel... but had this flywheel in my car almost 5years before the divorce happened
you got a flux capacitor strapped to that starter motor?
Well done Naku, one for the record books!!! So now down in deben you be tjooning the ring gears as well bru
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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?
Hehehe
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That's very unusual!
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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
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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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Use Qbond next time
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What size starter do you use?
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