Oil in Starter, Stripped Screw Head, Rebuild or Replace?

[dmorano]

My starter quit working, so after trying to get it to work by directly hooking 12V jumper cables and failing, I drained the oil took the starter off. I again tried it with jumper cables and after fiddling with it got it to spin.

Trying to get the thing apart one of the long screw head stripped so now I gotta replace that. And a small amount of oil is in it. I guess the front oil seals failed. Noticed on eBay a starter rebuild kit that looks pretty comprehensive for $28.

Three questions, 1) try to find the screw and buy the rebuild kit 2) where in the world am I gonna find that long screw, or 3) just buy a new starter?

Kick starting is always an option, that's what I have been doing for months now, but I do like the redundancy and electric definitely helps when the bike is cold.

Any advice on this issue would be appreciated, thanks.

 

[pamcopete]

dmorano,

Well, the same thing happened to me with that long screw. I drilled and tapped the threaded end of the motor for an American thread, like, 10-32? and bought some threaded rod at my local Home Depot. Cut the threaded rod to length and screwed it into the threaded end of the motor and used a nut on the outside end.

Clean out the oil and get new seals and you are back in business.

 

[gggGary]

post looking for the bolt in the classies here. Some member will be happy to uh well you know...