I have a 2005 Town and Country with about 120K. Recently, and more frequently, upon turning the key, there is a single rather loud click. Sometimes, the starter engages in the next turn of the key but occasionally 5 or 6 are required. I’ve cleaned the connections and the battery is strong. So, …

Even the best of new parts can be defective from time to time, and when you do enough volume you run across those bad parts… I tell the tech to do a quick bench test, takes 30 seconds, if they don’t and install it anyway and it is bad out of the box, well that is on them and I am not paying them twi…

[image] davesmopar: Even the best of new parts can be defective from time to time I’ll never forget the time I bought a new (not rebuilt) starter from a local parts store, installed it and went to start the engine. One click and then a loud humming sound as I saw the battery cables smoking an…

Do cars have toothed flywheels like my old boat engine did? If so I’d check the teeth on the flywheel too. I had a boat engine with a few bad teeth on the flywheel, and if the bad gears lined up with the starter, it would not turn over. My mechanic replaced both starter and flywheel gear ring. It wa…

[image] dhallis: Do cars have toothed flywheels Yes, the teeth on the starter engage with the ring gear (teeth) on the flywheel/flexplate or in older Mopar’s torque converter… [image]

Yeah even lawn mowers have a ring gear. We had a fork lift once that was dead in the water with a stripped flywheel. Gotta fix it where it sits. I was able to tow my mower into the garage at least. Starter not ring gear. I learned to fear shutting stuff off over the years which is one reason I d…

[image] dhallis: Do cars have toothed flywheels Not sure if this applies universally to all cars, but the toothed part of a car’s flywheel is often replaceable, just a large toothed ring that is pressed on to the existing flywheel.

[image] George_San_Jose1: the toothed part of a car’s flywheel is often replaceable That might be how it was made for a manual transmission. I’ve not seen one replaced. Have you? For automatic transmissions the ring is welded on.

[image] George_San_Jose1: Not sure if this applies universally to all cars, but the toothed part of a car’s flywheel is often replaceable, just a large toothed ring that is pressed on to the existing flywheel. Given that every rule has an exception… Both a flywheel and a flexplate have ring g…

[image] texases: That might be how it was made for a manual transmission. I’ve not seen one replaced. Have you? [#shorts Flywheel Ring Gear Replacement] Here is a 1970 F-100 5.0L flywheel ring gear at rock auto… (unknown flywheel above in video) https://www.rockauto.com/en/morei…

Learn something new every day. Anyone here replaced a ring gear?

Starter rebuild kit - asking for trouble?

Maintenance/Repairs

davesmopar September 23, 2023, 1:21pm 32

Here is a 1970 F-100 5.0L flywheel ring gear at rock auto… (unknown flywheel above in video)

https://www.rockauto.com/en/moreinfo.php?pk=65882&cc=1119833&pt=5360&jsn=471

$18 ring gear vs $113+ new flywheel… (if nothing else wrong with it… lol_)

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