changing by starter and was looking at my flywheel. does this look normal, all the rust????
Others will totally disagree with me and call me all kinds of nasty names but I'll say it anyways since you asked.
What I did is I put in a second wire on the small terminal of the starter solenoid AT the starter motor. I very tidily ran this wire along the wiring harness, capped it off and tie-strapped it in an accessible location. This allows me to use this wire to remotely actuate the starter motor / bypass the ignition switch, kill switch, neutral safety if I really need to.
For instance, if I'm working on the motor and need to "bump" it over, or do a compression test, or jus want to test for B+ at the starter motor, or for some reason if I have a no-start situation and don't want to sit there and diagnose is it the ignition switch? Safety switch? Neutral switch? Trim switch???
There, I said it.
Did the same thing,got tired of trying to hookup the remote switch on my old chevy under the car,run a wire up top,hook up the remote,done!You have to be the craziest, stupidest, maddest SOB on the planet to do that!!! Do you know just how insane that is?!?!???!
Love it..![]()
... Going to do the same to my engine.
Me, I'm all about little 'diagnostic' lights... (yeah, and bling, bling...) Have a friend with an electric winch that's always playing up. Hooked two of those really small LEDs in a shiny chrome bezel to the appropriate lines inside and mounted them on the cover. Now he just looks at the lights and knows why the power's not there. Most of the time it's the plug at the back of the car, so he just gives it a wiggle and he's in business. Without the lights he was lost....
Chris....
EDIT: Almost forgot.... To the OP...most of the flywheels I've seen of late look just like that....
Whew I thought that would get me kicked off this forum for sure!
You want off? I can tell you how to do it... Just PM me.... :laugh:
LOL actually here is what I really did:
I put a wire onto terminal A in the picture below in addition to the purple / yellow wire. This allows me to easily bypass the factory wiring power up the electric fuel pump, choke and ignition module if I really need to for whatever reason ie: diagnostic purposes. Also its non-intrusive in that it doesn't involve any cutting / splicing / modifying of any factory wiring. This is the point where that circuit (ign module, choke, f/pump) gets power while the engine is being cranked before the oil pressure switch turns on.
While doing that, I figure why not put a wire on terminal B as well. That allows me to directly jump the starter without using a giant screwdriver like the old days!
Then I ran out of brain cells for the day.![]()
So im the boat and I am removing seat parts to reach the area to put the starter in where it goes. Starter will be here tomorrow.
So i said to my self lets rotate the belt and check the rest of the fly wheel as i rotate it.
The problem is I can't move the belt much at all. Should I be able to move the the fly wheel by pulling on the belt and the pulleys.
Its just not moving at all, kinda worried something else may be wrong.
Now you just need to mount some mechanical gauges in the engine box and you're set..... Look mum, no hands....
I can't tell if you're bugging me or serious! ....