Starter Quandry (1 Viewer)

[pearcecs]

I have a 95 FZJ80.

I've had increasing starter woes for a little while now. I took it apart, cleaned it out, ground the contacts down, and reassembled. It will work well for a few starts, then went back to it's typical behavior: engaging the flywheel for a moment, grinding, then just spinning freely. I kept thinking that it was an electrical issue, as the starter acted normally when bench tested on my battery charger. I then bench tested it while hooked up to the in-car electronics and it acts fine. Once it's bolted in, it still only engages for a moment, then grinds, then just spins freely. Any ideas? I took some video that I'll try and attach.

 

[pearcecs]

video:

The video shows me starting the starter twice while hooked up to the factory electronics.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-jf2xTg6DjFTDJ5TnM0UzVWVVk/edit?usp=sharing

 

[Frankencruiser]

Your starter looks fine. Look at the flywheel gear.

 

[pearcecs]

From what I could see of the flywheel, it looked fine (through the mounting hole). I expect that if the flywheel was somehow pushing the starter pinion back into the resting position, that the flywheel would stop moving near that (damaged) location.

Any easier way to do a flywheel inspection other then removing the plugs and slowly cranking it around with a wrench from the fan (or something similar)?

 

[pearcecs]

Guessing the Bendix/clutch assembly?

 

[pearcecs]

Any ideas?

 

[98 SNAKE EATER]

Guessing the Bendix/clutch assembly?

THIS!!