Service a starter motor: worn brushes

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  • Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
  • As brushes are unavailable, your options are: 1) crimping, 2) soldering or 3) fit in an extra brush piece with no wire. Detail work, but why spend hundreds when $2 can make it work?

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  • @wadepatton2433
    @wadepatton2433 3 года назад +1

    Many years ago I took starter brushes, filed them down to fit and used them to fix the window motor of my pickup. Never failed again. I had the truck 9 years and pushed it over 300k. I'm working on a starter now, and ran across your vid. Diving into my starter for the 4th time now. I've lost contact to the control terminal/ pull-in coil. But first- lunch!

  • @paulbuschman8318
    @paulbuschman8318 7 месяцев назад

    Any tips on keeping the brushes recessed when putting back together and getting the brushes over the commutator?

  • @patmatte
    @patmatte 2 года назад +1

    wouldn't putting the add-on piece behind the brush between the spring and the brush be better?
    Also great video I'm about to try this with my snowblower starter.

    • @theoverengineer
      @theoverengineer  2 года назад

      That works, too

    • @kevin.afton_
      @kevin.afton_ Год назад

      And your add-on piece could be anything if you put it behind it, even just a piece of wood too.

    • @gerardogle1732
      @gerardogle1732 3 месяца назад

      Wood does not conduct electricty ​@@kevin.afton_

  • @frankiecastanos6730
    @frankiecastanos6730 4 года назад

    Thank you so much for the info. You just saved me $500. And the trouble of trying to find replacement parts witch im finding out is not so easy for my zr7. Thank look forward to more video. Sigh Frankie. C..

  • @ninoechavez1402
    @ninoechavez1402 4 года назад +1

    When i serviced my motor, was there any chnce i might have assembled the brushes wrongly? Motor seems to rotate the opposite way now and my starter clutch just spins freely and won’t crank when i press the electric start.

    • @theoverengineer
      @theoverengineer  4 года назад

      Oh yes. Very wrongly assembled. Switch the wires around.

    • @ninoechavez1402
      @ninoechavez1402 4 года назад

      Does the motor normally rotate clockwise or counter clockwise?

  • @timfoley3189
    @timfoley3189 4 года назад

    5:30 Goodntight "that's what she said ya!" Thanks Chief. If you are in dire need of brushes go to harbour freight or Walmart and get 1 or 2 angle grinders and remove the brushes!

  • @lanazaakat9466
    @lanazaakat9466 4 года назад

    What are you trying to do in the video ?

  • @michaelthomas788
    @michaelthomas788 6 лет назад +1

    I've worked on motorcycles and cars for a long time I recently tried fixing the starter like that didn't work too well I think it turn the engine 5 times before it burned the brushes

    • @theoverengineer
      @theoverengineer  6 лет назад

      Overcurrent is burning the brushes off. Somewhere these is a stuck bearing or something is misaligned, causing extra resistance ...

    • @michaelthomas788
      @michaelthomas788 6 лет назад

      theoverengineer if you've ever rebuilt starter you know that most starters don't have bearings there bushings

    • @theoverengineer
      @theoverengineer  6 лет назад

      Somewhere - I said
      Find the source of friction

    • @michaelosmon
      @michaelosmon 2 года назад

      @@michaelthomas788 my waverunner starter has bearings in it

  • @jigo53
    @jigo53 2 года назад

    im replacing the brushes on my cb500 only after 20,000 miles.. is that normal?

    • @theoverengineer
      @theoverengineer  2 года назад

      Not quite normal at all, but if they're worn down, not much can be done besides replacement

  • @s99614
    @s99614 7 лет назад +1

    Where can I get new brushes for $2??

    • @theoverengineer
      @theoverengineer  7 лет назад

      From an alternator / starter place, might look like this at 3:45 ruclips.net/video/BLmZAQeMM9o/видео.html

    • @michaelosmon
      @michaelosmon 2 года назад

      Ace hardware

  • @UPTHETOWN
    @UPTHETOWN 5 лет назад +2

    So much wrongness
    1. Not ground brush, positive
    2. Not soldered, spot welded
    3. Not friction fit, spot welded

  • @alyaawaliyah
    @alyaawaliyah 11 лет назад +1

    what is wrong if the starter spinning in wrong way after i change the bush and bush body starter?

    • @juanherrero911
      @juanherrero911 6 лет назад

      For my starter motor, fitting the middle section of the starter motor, which has the magnets, the wrong way round caused it to spin the wrong way.

  • @ideasdonato
    @ideasdonato 6 лет назад

    Where you bought this carbon???

    • @theoverengineer
      @theoverengineer  6 лет назад +1

      Just found some at a used starter repair shop. I asked for it nicely, it was free.

  • @whitestar3531
    @whitestar3531 Год назад

    Add on ? Super glue
    ?

    • @theoverengineer
      @theoverengineer  Год назад +1

      A big enough chunk (nothing too thin) will stay in the sleeve by friction, no glue or anything that impedes electrical conduction is needed.

    • @whitestar3531
      @whitestar3531 Год назад

      Thanks for replying, ok that's wonderful info, thanks 😊

  • @pushpavathibai8404
    @pushpavathibai8404 6 лет назад

    m.sudhakar NAIK brush spring operated setter