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Ok so my dad has an old (non) he said his starter was making funny noises and then locked up and quit. He gave up because it was a junker but I have plans for it to clear that mesquite patch......so the starter HAS to work lol, I took it home he just chuckled and said it's broke you need a new one, I laughed and said I was raised better than to buy something before I even tried to fix it!......ok so here's the skinny, as soon as I got it off I noticed the bushing on the out put side is missing bad sign #1. I take it home and disassemble it, on exterior inspection I find hammer marks (bad sign 2). Open it up and find pieces of the old bushing, and fairly large chunks of magnet(3 strikes!) it also damaged the armature coil......undaunted I pushed through and cleaned it up got all the magnets and carbon out (more than I could imagine) freed up an lubed the bendix and reassembled it. Then I bench tested it with jumper cables, there is life! Considering what the magnets/armature look like it was fairly smooth and quiet even without the bushing. My question is this.....is that bushing available? My current plan is to machine a bushing out of pvdf wich is not preferable but should get the job done.
