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yea the only problem with that though is that they don't state who makes it. i'm very weary now about buying starters that i don't know about. I think i'm going to get an M.E.S. from atlantic jet sports, because those are pretty much as close to OE as you can get.

lol i'm so sick of the starter rebuild shop we have here. i took in my first OE starter, and he tried to turn the teeth, and when they didn't he said well the bearings locked up i can't do anything. then i took this a/m one in and told him it was weak, and he didn't look at it and just said...

isn't that exactly what you do with an rc motor? nobody drives an rc truck or plane around with 5 second bursts of full throttle followed by a cooldown period?

all i replaced was the bendix (before my OE starter went bad) and the relay (which was definately bad) already did swap rideplates, and the stock one is definately the way to go :cool2:

i think he's talking about foam for padding purposes, where you use a sheet of hydroturf foam (not turf) to pad the holds.

nope, and the rebuild shop i took it to said that wouldn't possibly burn up a starter unless i left it hooked up for like 5 minutes and constantly applied pressure then didn't apply pressure. :nana:

i did! :Banane01: that's what i meant by it not being a superjet or sxr, but i think some people thought i meant it was an octane. more pictures please:biggthumpup:

well it turns out it was the starter all along. i just got back from CG Racing and we tried out his starter and it worked just fine. this starter was supposed to be good when i bought it, so i'm assuming it was, and my bendix was binding it up (the teeth on the starter are chewed up pretty...

Big thanks to Chuck at CG Racing for helping me out so much. he let me come down to his shop and put his starter in my boat to do some troubleshooting, and then sold me some parts even though i couldn't pay for them all at the moment :woot: he's a great guy and i look forward to buying some...

ditto

ding ding ding!

ok i just read on odyssey's website that that's normal, the voltage is supposed to drop to 7.2 during cranking, and provide 625 amps. i hooked up the voltmeter to the odyssey again and i gat a 12.3v reading which is like 60% charged. i tried cranking it, didn't get much, checked the voltmeter...

ok i messed around with it a little today. i did what paul said to do with the bendix and it still did the same thing (this is with a jump box hooked directly to to starter). so i figured i'd try the old odyssey battery, which read about 13 volts on the voltmeter. it started cranking just...

damn dude, you didn't pay for it did you?

yea i'm sure it was, it looks great on the inside, but it may not be good after my bendix and/or crank had my way with it lol. i guess we'll find out tomorrow. :sad:

by extended periods of time i mean like 1 minute, not lunch. the only thing that will happen is the 12v's running through it will start to cook the brushes. :offtopic: anyways, it doesn't matter because this starter was doing this long before i did any sort of test on it. i just spoke with...

magnetic motors can run for extended periods of time with no problem, especially when there's no load on them. take rc cars and golf carts for example.

this is the thread where i heard about the wood test. http://www.pwctoday.com/showthread.php?t=75801&highlight=starter+wood but i haven't tried another known good starter, but i would definately like to. i don't really want to go out and buy a new one though if that's not even the...

Okay i have confined the problem to just the starter/engine. i hooked up a 12v jump starter that plugs into the wall, directly to the starter, bypassing all cables, wires, relay, etc. still having the problem. i took off the flywheel to make sure everything was good there, and all seems to be...

i'm running 50/50 mix of 93 octane and 110 octane. the ski runs great if i can get it started. the gulp/air sucking sound comes from the plug holes when they're out. i am definately getting a lot of help and i appreciate it so much, i want to be able to ride this thing for more than 1 day...