unheard of starting problem

meatball

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anyone ever have a ski that would run fine once running, but when starting, it will turn over a tad slow and the motor would stop turning over after a few seconds, and then start a load screeching until you let off the starter?

Anyways, as you can probably guess, thats my problem.

Tried putting in another bendix, same problem. Going to take out the starter for inspection, but has anyone gone through this? Im thinking its a flat bearing in the starter motor.

BTW, all the gears in the case, flywheel/bendix-to-flywheel/bendix-to-starter/starter gears were all in great shape, no wear at all, so its not gear grinding, and with swapping out the bendix, I doubt its that. Battery is also good with a good charge.

Any hints of what to look for?
 

meatball

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Location
Maryland
found out it was the starter making that loud loud screeching. Took it apart and black dust flew everywhere, two of the brushes were almost completely gone.
 
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