My new old airplane has an issue we can't quite figure out.
It sounds like the starter is engaging the starter ring wrong or something because it has a very loud (for the lack of adequate word) grinding noise and it seems to stay engaged longer than it should. We have cleaned the drive gear and sprayed with silicone, shimmed it away from the starter gear and nothing has fixed the problem. The engine is an aerosport and most of the parts including the flywheel are superior. I talked to Skytec/Hartzell and he sent me a Lycoming SL on how to shim but it is not the same type starter in the instructions. The model number is 149-12LS. Anybody else ever had this problem?
thanks
It sounds like the starter is engaging the starter ring wrong or something because it has a very loud (for the lack of adequate word) grinding noise and it seems to stay engaged longer than it should. We have cleaned the drive gear and sprayed with silicone, shimmed it away from the starter gear and nothing has fixed the problem. The engine is an aerosport and most of the parts including the flywheel are superior. I talked to Skytec/Hartzell and he sent me a Lycoming SL on how to shim but it is not the same type starter in the instructions. The model number is 149-12LS. Anybody else ever had this problem?
thanks