Mission aborted.

[Ds Tree services]

Went to my chipper this morning to find it won't start.. Dam.. All its doing when you turn the key, you just hear a click coming from what I am assuming is the gear clicking on th the fly weel but thats it. So firs things first I check the battery by hooking it up to my truck with the jump leads still the same click.. By this point my blood is starting to boil. .So right what's next quickly ring round for a new starter up to yet best quote £185 and not be with me till Tuesday next week... What next.

 

Called my Dad who told me about an old boy that recons them on an industrial estate near by so I niped down to see him with the starter and he says it's looking like the contact's have gone..... £45 And come back in a hour and it will be as goid as new hence the reson I'm typing this rarther long post. Wish me look.

Edited November 29, 2013 by Steve Bullman

[swinny]

if battery is fully charged. click click click means tap starter with a hammer to see if it free's up

Edited November 29, 2013 by swinny

[Ds Tree services]

HaHa Don't worry I tried that old chestnut. lol

[Ds Tree services]

Whatever the old boy has done to the starter I'm now back up and running.

 

O and only just noticed, title is ment to say Misson aborted bloody predictive text.

[doobin]

Men in sheds keep the world turning!

 

Starters are pretty simple things. I've saved people hundreds over the years by repairing them.

[Ds Tree services]

It's the future. He basically said if you buy a new one you will just get a old one that's had a recon now I understand why they want your old one so badly

[Rich2484]

It would have been the bushes in the starter that had worn out,

 

There is no warning when these are going to go, you may get a one or two signs of a click when trying to start but that's it. They just go.

 

They are real simple things, just a block of soft metal that rubs against the centre and puts power to it to make it turn, there is more to it than this but it would take too long, lol.

[treequip]

It would have been the bushes in the starter that had worn out,

 

There is no warning when these are going to go, you may get a one or two signs of a click when trying to start but that's it. They just go.

 

They are real simple things, just a block of carbon that rubs against the centre and puts power to it to make it turn, there is more to it than this but it would take too long, lol.

 

Fixed that for ya

[farmer rod]

Fixed that for ya

 

sometimes they are a sort of coppery colour tbf

[Ds Tree services]

I was looking at it last night and tbf that littel starter is pulling a heavy load not only has it got the Diesel engine to turn it's got the fly wheel to turn to.

 

I'd say its 45 quid we'll spent and I'm even wounding wheather it's worth doing evry say 8yrs or so as a mantinance thing.