IS MY STARTER MOTOR BROKEN??

it sounds you have a lazy starter motor i had the same problem and got a recon starter now im back on road.

karni
June 2010

defo your starter motor. If the bushes each end of the starter are worn it allows the com to be "sloppy" and rub the coil fields thus slowing down the cranking speed and power of the starter and in turn the engine. fit a new or recon unit. done hundreds of them.

colin. (Leicester)
February 2009

Forget the BATTERIES,forget the ALTERNATOR,buy a recon starter with solenoid,clean all connections and fit it,unless you want to spend your life underneath the damned thing,it's your starter,4 batteries can't be wrong can they??

Rich
October 2008

Thanks for the answer but this has already been done i'v cleaned the wheel that the copper bushes run on. the starter motor will only revolve when I use a battery that just been taken off charge. the battery seems to have around 12 volts going through it after 3 or 4 attempts of starting.

Dave
October 2008

A starter motor take lots of current - ever so much. It's controlled by a big solenoid-operated switch usually on top of the motor itself. If any of the connections are dirty or perhaps a little loose the voltage presented at the motor itself may be low - like having a flattish battery. Before changing the starter motor consider cleaning up the connections in the high current (fat wire) circuit to the solenoid. Battery terminals too.

Peccavi
October 2008