454 Mercruiser starting "on stand" help

[04fxdwgi]

Re: 454 Mercruiser starting "on stand" help

Okay anyone listening that can help. I am home now and went straight ot work on attempting to get this engine started. I have taken off fly wheel cover and can ee the starter engge and stick on the flywheel. It comes out right in line with flywheel teeth and but just seems to not have enough power to turn crank more thana hair ad then it also sticks i haveto manually turn engine for the starter to retract. I went in and did what the above postersaid and followed the directionsto the exact. I then reinstalled and with only battery hooked up to starter bridged S to starter toget starter engaged on wheel but no flywheel movement. The tarter seems to hav a little more uummph and makes a wining noise now. Any suggestions??? Bobby

I thought the starter was removed, brought to the "store" and tested and it tested OK? Perhaps it was a lousy test and starter is NG afterall. It is "possible" that it is grossly mis-aligned just right and jamming hard when it hits the flywheel, since you need to assist it to dis-engage. It should di-engage by itself. But it should have plenty of torque to spin an engine, especially with no plugs in the engine, unless the alignment jams it up that bad (have seen that only a couple of times in 40 years), or the starter / solenoid needs to be replaced. Hard telling from this side of a keyboard.

Does the starter have the Bendix / solenoid bolted to the top of it or is it just the Bendix there with a remote solenoid?

Not seeing exactly what is there and not hearing it, but if battery has a full charge, sounds like the starter:
1. Is old / weak and should be replaced, or
2. Starter solenoid is NG and should be replaced, or
3. You have it wired up wrong, or
4. It's grossly mis-aligned and needs to re-aligned, or
4. Any or all of the above

 

[judgebobo]

Re: 454 Mercruiser starting "on stand" help

All that helped thank you. After the advice to check out the selonoid, I did just that and it seemed to change something so I went back through the seloniod and really cleaned all connections including the "Clean side" of the ring and guess what??? spun the flywheel no problem. Hooked everything up and jumped off slave and she Fired up!!!! next problem. I coud start another thread or someone could shoot me in the direction of correct fuel pump installation. I being a newbie (very first rebuild of any kind) was not paying attention and am sure that i did not put it on right. I just placed the piece in the block and tightened her down. I can only keep the engine fired up with putting fuel in carb. took fuel pump off and not exactly sure how it is suppose to go. thanks for any help and just lt me now if you would like me to start new tread. I swear i seen something on fuel pump installation before but after searching can not find it anywhere. Bobby