<VV> Broken Starter Nose

[Robert K. Henry]

Yeah, I hope not as well. The incident I'm citing was with an original
flywheel. Maybe your starter casting had been subjected to a bad flywheel at
some point and had developed a small crack that finally let go. 

Robert Henry
'65 Corsa Convertible Turbo
Knoxville, TN

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Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 7:43 AM
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: Re: <VV> Broken Starter Nose

Man, I sure hope that's not the case with mine. I'd rather take the blame
than to think that the new clutch and flywheel, both heavy duty from
Clark's, are suspect.
 
With an ambient temp of 97-98 here in Northeast PA yesterday, I took the
Monza for a 100+ mile cruise. When we stopped for lunch, it wouldn't restart
again. Don't know if it was vapor locked or flooded. I tried everything I
knew, but the only thing I succeeded in doing was in running the battery
down. Finally called for road service through my Hagerty insurance and a
fellow "Chevy lover" came out and provided enough extra juice from a jump
that I could get it running. It did act like it was flooded (black smoke)
when it finally started.
 
Never a dull moment. It was way too hot to be out running around anyway,
even with the top down.
 
Byron Comp
'64 Monza Vert
Williamsport, PA


> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:19:40 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Robert Henry <henry336359 at bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: <VV> Bad Starter, was Melted Wires
> To: "virtualvairs at corvair.org" <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
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> I've been through this problem and initially made the same assumption, 
> that the starter nose?broke because of "User Error." It turned out to 
> be a bad flywheel.
> The rivets come loose or break and the resulting eccentric motion of 
> the ring gear breaks starter noses. Sometimes if you release the 
> clutch while the engine is idling you can hear the flywheel?rattle. The
fix is a clutch job.
> 
> Robert Henry
> '65 Corsa Convertible Turbo
> Knoxville, TN

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