Several months ago the 6.9's starter seemed to be dragging and I took it to a sparky. He 'refurbished' the thing and it seemed to be better, but over the last few months the starter has deteriorated. I couldn't work this out as I had had the starter motor re-done, so I thought that there had to be another problem. On the recommendation of S-Class, I even checked the valve timing to check that the timing chain wasn't stretched. Last week was the worst and I finally took it to another sparky, whose now fixed the starter properly - it almost spins the motor of it's engine mountings!
Oh what joy to have the 6.9 starting properly again!!
Any clue as to what the priginal sparky did wrong ? I have looked at gear reduction starters as a possible replacement - should it ever be needed.
I don't know Craig - maybe he used inferior quality brushes, or didn't replace the brushes at all. The new sparky used genuine Bosch brushes.
Quote from: CraigS on 09 January 2008, 06:07 AM
I have looked at gear reduction starters as a possible replacement - should it ever be needed.
I would be interested in any findings with gear reduction starters.
I have converted a couple of older Falcons over with excellent results but that was easy as they just upgraded the starters with normal production over the years and you just need a later model one.
Bill