Edzred72

While bench cleaning the oil and gooy stuff off my starter, pieces of a brownish fiber gasket/insulator looking material started falling out of the unit. I looked inside and could see all the wire windings of the motor. I haven't taken it apart, nor do I need to cause it works fine! Does this donut gasket/insulator seal the motor from the gear and shaft? Will it be OK to re-install starter without this seal?? :confused: :confused:

ylose

I by no means am good with advice...but would this keep heat out ?
you know...from when people cant restart their vettes due to the heat of the engine and running for a while. Then when your engine cools the starter functions again....never happened to me....but I have read a lot of members experiencing this.

do you have a regular starter or mini-starter by the way? i heard mini's eliminate this dilemna.

as you know i am very qualified for

Frankenvette

I justed removed my starter for the same reason. A good cleaning. Never saw any type of gasket material, but I would leave well enough alone. My starter looks like it is of the WW2 era its so old. I cleaned it, painted it and mounted it with a new solenoid. Worked just fine, and I can't imagine yours is in any worse shape. I also went to the local parts shop and got a heat shield for about $3.00. Painted it too and the whole assembly looks great. Now if I can just keep the oil leaks off it.

Regards,

Jim

Edzred72

The starter is the factory original. This gasket material (from what I could conclude) was a circular donut shape in the same diameter as the motor case, and stiff like insulator fiber. Many little dried up brittle pieces came out :confused: :confused: I thought it would be a winding insulator/gasket to keep oil and dirt out of the motor windings. If noone knows what exactly this stuff is... F*** it.. I'll throw it back in and hope for the best.
Thanks for your responses guys...
AHHEMM... Uhh, Ylose... their ain't no snow on my roof..cause there is way too hot a fire down stairs!! :jester :jester :jester

Edzred72

BTW Jim, what color scheme did you use... Black body..silvr front?? You gave me the incentive to paint mine... thanks!! :cheers: :cheers:

MasterDave

I've replaced a lot of chevy starters over my lifespan and I have never seen any type of gasket on one. Sounds like insulator materiel off your magnets or windings on the inside. I suppose you could just put it back in and use it 'til it fails but if it was me, I would change it. Starters are fairly cheap ya know, plus you don't got to paint a new one. :yesnod:

ram82fire

Silver on some of the older style starter motors that had a sheet metal dust cover over the openings near the brushes,, a gasket was used between the case and the dust cover .

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Frankenvette

I painted the starter red to match my body color. I also have already painted some of my engine bay red. I painted the new solenoid red also and the heat shield black. I also changed to external hardware to stainless steel although the oil leak keeps anything from rusting!

Regards,

Jim

ylose

lol....omg....TOO MUCH INFO ........but very good response none the less.
we definately gotta get together in spring.
:D :seeya


----note to self...silvr77 doesnt forget a post..even when server is down for over night! :jester


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Edzred72

[QUOTE] we definately gotta get together in spring.[QUOTE] OH YEAH!!!

Nope!........ But if I can only remember where I put that darn idler arm mounting bolt, and those pesky stove pipe hex... oh crap. Gotta sweep the floor and sift through the dirt :mad