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Location: Mobile, AL
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Starter brushes worn, flip em?
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Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: st cloud mn
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Re: Starter brushes worn, flip em?
Just replace them.
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Re: Starter brushes worn, flip em?
I work on electric motors every day. Unless the brushes are unavailable my recommendation would be to replace them
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Re: Starter brushes worn, flip em?
I agree^^
But to answer your question i have never heard of anybody wasting time doing that.
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Re: Starter brushes worn, flip em?
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Re: Starter brushes worn, flip em?
2 hrs work an now I got this
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Re: Starter brushes worn, flip em?
Sorry I didn't get to your post sooner. I've reversed the brushes and had starters last for years afterward. I also make sure I lube the nose bearing and the shaft.
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Location: Fletcher, N.C.
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Re: Starter brushes worn, flip em?
Oh yes, I've done this before, at least until I got new ones...
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Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Chicago Illinois
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Re: Starter brushes worn, flip em?
I know this may sound stupid, but I'm here to learn. What kind've symptoms are there when the brushes are bad vs. when you have to replace the whole starter ?
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Join Date: May 2014
Location: Mobile, AL
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Re: Starter brushes worn, flip em?
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Might be tmi here but since the wife's car had this bad starter I loaned her one of my trucks and I'm doing some repair/upgrades on my c-10 so we were down to 1 vehicle. I needed to get another car back on the road quick so I just flipped the brushes to get it running temporarily. What I'm saying is you really only wanna bother with just brushes when your in a pinch and need to get something on the road quick. That said I'm sure some people replace just brushes and still get a lot of life out of it, but in most cases IMO if your gonna pull it off why not just pop a new one on there so you know you've got all new stuff. Would be kind of a pain to do armature and brushes then pull it off agāin the next year cause the solenoid went out. Sorry for the novel man just trying to give you the full picture here. Short answer, your starters not working right, so you pull it off and open it up. You look at your brushes and they look like the ones in the above picture. They should be more than twice as long as those if they were band new.That's how you know you have bad brushes. Last edited by Custom/Ten; 05-28-2015 at 01:56 AM. |
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Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Chicago Illinois
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Re: Starter brushes worn, flip em?
Sweet thanks for the in depth reply ! I'm just a weekend warrior mechanic so I have a lot to learn but I'm always trying to expand my knowledge. Never know when you run into a situation where you'll use something new you learned
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Join Date: May 2014
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Re: Starter brushes worn, flip em?
Np man, you'll like this site. There's all kinds of cool threads on here. Just about anything you could think of has already been asked and answered in some of the old threads.
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