part 2 - second alton starter failure - the fix

Peter Waller said:

I fitted the yves fix after the woodruff key sheared on the crankshaft of my Commando and all was good for 2 months UNTILL.....a screeching from the starter motor but it is not turning the cog with the cush drive. It is the the double gear that connects between the starter motor and the cush drive.
I can feel teeth missing from the cog that is deep in the recess were the cush drive slots into .

To be honest is have been an awful time with this starter motor kit. After a month of fitting the key on the end of the crank shaft that the sprag clutch fits onto sheared off and we had major difficulty removing the sprag clutch. We then had an engineer make us up the "YVES" fix as show on all the Norton forums and we fitted a new sprag clutch...all this at great expense.
Everything worked fine for 2 months and now this has happened and it looks like the whole lot will have to be removed again to hopefully repair the starter motor or gear cogs that go between the starter motor and the cush drive gear.

As said the starter is screeching but not turning the cush drive cog and I can feel bits of metal with my finger when you feel into the teeth of the cog that is connected to the starter motor. Has anyone had this problem AND CAN IT BE FIXED

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