Cracking Starter nose on 3.0L Base Engine

[altrem99]

Good day,

I have a 3.0L that is breaking the nose on it's starter. Normally starts fine and then once in a while it sounds like it kicks back and breaks the starter nose housing. I cannot do the timing as I cannot find any mark on the pulley, the timing marks on the engine are there but nothing on the pulley.

Would you have any suggestion as to how to deal with the problem?

Tks,

 

[Don S]

Re: Cracking Starter nose on 3.0L Base Engine

I just posted a reply to another thread on the same subject. Might want to have a look at it.

http://forums.iboats.com/showthread.php?p=2329436#post2329436

 

[45Auto]

Re: Cracking Starter nose on 3.0L Base Engine

Take out the number 1 spark plug and poke a stick in the hole. Use it to feel where the piston is. Get the piston as high up as possible, then make a mark on your pulley. That is TDC.

 

[Chris/n5vkn]

Re: Cracking Starter nose on 3.0L Base Engine

Good day,

I have a 3.0L that is breaking the nose on it's starter. Normally starts fine and then once in a while it sounds like it kicks back and breaks the starter nose housing. I cannot do the timing as I cannot find any mark on the pulley, the timing marks on the engine are there but nothing on the pulley.

Would you have any suggestion as to how to deal with the problem?

Tks,

Hello All. I had a hard time wrapping my head around this one also (old school thinking). There are no marks on the pully. Only on the engine timing tab. Just hook up a timing light and use the marks on the tab. I read the manual until blue in the face. Two asprin and a nap later I figured it out.

 

[Don S]

Re: Cracking Starter nose on 3.0L Base Engine

Exact answers are impossible about the timing.

Believe it or not, things have actually changed on the 3.0L engines over the past 40 years.

 

[altrem99]

Re: Cracking Starter nose on 3.0L Base Engine

Take out the number 1 spark plug and poke a stick in the hole. Use it to feel where the piston is. Get the piston as high up as possible, then make a mark on your pulley. That is TDC.

Pardon my lack off knowledge on this but which is the number 1 piston, near the flywheel or near the water pump/alternator etc... ? Or does it make any difference?

Tks,