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Post up some photo's of your ring gears on the flywheels. I am unaware of 2 styles of ring gears. There is only 1 ring gear that I am aware of. The stock ring gear is directional and I have seen them put on backwards where the straight cut gear is facing the starter.....which is a big no no...... C...

Hmmm. Scott had no suggestions as to the problem? I'd agree that it would be very unusual for a vendor to warranty an electrical part which has been disassembled or modified. On the other hand, nobody can determine that but the vendor or manufacturer, so you've got nothing to lose by asking. It see...

I have spoken with him and he is awesome. Seems professional and stands behind his stuff. But my problem is the fact that I have had both starters apart and have custom modified a few things trying to get them to work. I don't expect them to honor any manufacturing defect at this point. But hey, if ...

Hmm, that's a worry. I fear I am having a similar issue with the pinion meshing. I'm still trying to work through it and will talk to Scott at EI further to hopefully resolve it. At this point, I'm going to have to go with rebuilding my old original starter. Now I have over $1,000 worth of useless ...

I'm still having trouble getting my Hi-Torque starter from E.I. to play nice with my flywheel ring gear. After replacing the ring gears (twice) AND the starter (twice), it's still grinding and having trouble fully engaging. The newest starter's gear actually fell off of the shaft and was lost down i...

Did you check the plugs? They get fouled, ya know.

UPDATE: I replaced the flywheel ring gear , starter mount , and starter (and the clutch while I was at it)... It still grinds, spins out, and only engages about 1 out of every 10 tries. It actually got WORSE with all of the new parts! WTF am I missing here? It seems like such a simple working mechan...

Curious how much usage that starter sees? Like daily driver or less regular? No bueno either way... My Pinzgauers are used as commercial 4x4 tour vehicles. They get used daily but only from late May - mid October. They are in storage half of the year. Since the "outdated", "heavy&quo...

So today the starter just spun and wouldn't engage the flywheel at all. I took it out again to make sure that didn't miss anything the first time. This time, when I removed and inspected the starter, the shaft could no longer be easily pulled out by hand like before. So I tried extending it out with...

Do the bang bang bangs kinda go with the revolution of the flywheel or the revolutions of the starter motor? Seems to be in synch with the starter's revolutions, rather than the flywheel. Also, today the starter just "spun out" without engaging the flywheel. After moving the truck, it eng...

stiffler4444 wrote:Rather pull the rear than the front. Ask me how I know .....

I'm terrified to have to do the same thing to the front diff. eventually. Looks even more complicated and labor intensive.

I used to believe that Pinzgauers were designed to use crappy European gas from the early 70's... so why bother using premium gas? And why use anything but the cheapest multigrade motor oil either? Well, I will tell you from firsthand experience, my trucks run NOTICEABLY better with premium gas. The...

I had it done by a certified mechanic. It needed new seals. No more leaks.
COST: parts-$335 labor-$2,500

So when I start one of my trucks, it now makes a loud "bang-bang-bang" sound as the starter is working. When it starts the banging stops. I removed the starter and inspected everything and it looks fine. No worn teeth on the starter or flywheel, the starter shaft extends out like it should...

Thanks for the replies guys.
Could it also have anything to do with 10% ethanol in my gas? A friend of mine said that his snowmobile did that when he started using ethanol gas.