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Ratchet style starter drive retract I got a new starter drive unit for my Mercury with the Merc-o-matic and I twisted it out not knowing it that I wasn't supposed to do that. Do you guys know a way to retract it? I saw a video using a wire wheel on a bench grinder to spin it up and rewind it, but I don't have a wire wheel for mine. Can I spin it with the starter out side of the car and force a retract? https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...1c11afdc19.jpg
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Re: Ratchet style starter drive retract the speed of the running engine is what retracts the drive so I assume with no load on the starter it should retract by jumping it with a battery, my guess! either it will or won't!
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Re: Ratchet style starter drive retract you can take it apart and reset the 3 spring loaded little dowels back into the slot of the
worm not easy but doable with extra set of hands. Lesson learned, don't fool with this style .... |
Re: Ratchet style starter drive retract big job:
Lesson learned, don't fool with this style .... QUESTION: What style do you recommend? The starter for the Merco-Matic is different than for the manual trans. Not interchangeable. |
Re: Ratchet style starter drive retract WABOOM: Try your idea outside the car and see what happens. I don't think it will hurt the starter. Fordor41 also has a good idea.
Here's a helpful thread. https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/...-matic.622529/ and https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/showthread.php?t=48011 If possible, PM folks with Mercomatic starter like yours, get their phone number and call them to discuss how they have installed this starter. IDEA: Clamp the starter in a BIG vise using the case as clamping point. Put on a leather glove and simultaneously twist and push in the starter drive (CW or CCW) to see if you can manually retract it. |
Re: Ratchet style starter drive retract Thank you.
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called a "flow thru" something like that back when. Before buying another nothing to loose - take it apart in a cardboard box so nothing flys away like springs do. Remove large snap ring on the barrel remove the barrel now you will see something like a star this is where those little springs and dowels go into. On the inside of this so called starr is where a spring then a dowel goes I think there are three springs & dowels. Somehow you gotta hold all dowels in while turning the whole assy. on the worm shaft. What happened is that it was turned 'wrong way' past the worm shaft and all the dowels popped out. Not complicated it works by centrifugal force. when engine starts remember ring gear is large and the bendex is small so that bendex is really whipping thus sucking those dowels "in" back in their little holes. Same principal as a governor. Hope I explained this understandable. then reassemble good to go....sam |
Re: Ratchet style starter drive retract big job, Thank you for that excellent explanation. I am sure WABOOM can solve the problem as this can't be the first time this has ever happened.
Wish I had a starter like that to play with. Would be an interesting challenge. Kind of like assembling a mechanical part where you have to hold all the little balls in place with thick grease or a home made strap like a wire tie or radiator hose. |
Re: Ratchet style starter drive retract WABOOM, if it were mine and before I took it apart, I'd try the battery hook up trick. Failing that, I'd get a wire wheel for the grinder.....and you probably need one anyway!!!
I have a VERY bad record of success with taking things like this apart and then getting them back together without having a very frustrating afternoon!!:eek: |
Re: Ratchet style starter drive retract I took the starter out. Here's a good pic of a Merc-o-matic starter. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...fef436a602.jpg
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Re: Ratchet style starter drive retract I tested installed the new drive unit onto the starter shaft and spun it up to full speed with jumper cables. I tried several times to nudge the starter gear into retract mode with a lever while spinnin, but I could not get it to retract.
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I believe the term was "Follow Through". They were designed to avoid disengaging whenever the engine would fire once or twice but not catch and stay running. It used to be common to hear a Ford starter turn the engine briefly, then buzz up without turning the engine. So you had to release the starter button and wait for the starter to stop turning, then push the button again-sometimes repeatedly! This new style drive shown here was a vast improvement! If the engine just fired once or twice, the ratchet allowed the drive to over run, but stay engaged until the engine fired and revved fast enough to release those pins and thus disengage. |
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If it will mount and can be bolted in place (with the gear teeth engaged), as soon as the engine starts, centrifugal force will be sufficient enough to allow normal operation. |
Re: Ratchet style starter drive retract I will try to install it tonight.
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Re: Ratchet style starter drive retract I'm gonna spin it with a 12 volt battery tonight and see if I can bump it back in with more rpms.
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Re: Ratchet style starter drive retract I don't think spinning the starter will retract it as that's what engages it. You
need to spin the drive like the engine would when it starts. |
Re: Ratchet style starter drive retract Is there a pictorial drawing of that starter available that will show how it mechanically fits together?
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Re: Ratchet style starter drive retract When the starter drive engages flywheel and spins, does the inertia and much faster rotation of the flywheel, upon starting, cause the starter gear to withdraw it's contact with the flywheel after the engine starts?
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Re: Ratchet style starter drive retract As I see it... the teeth of the ratchets twist the gear head up the helix, and then ratchets keep the gear engaged until the engine starts. Then the flywheel spins it so fast the drive unit unlocks and rewind down the helix.
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