<VV> loose flywheel, was Need diagnostic help

[tony..]

In your instance it could be a combination of both a starter bendix 
issue AND/OR a loose flywheel.  Careful about loose flywheels since if 
they get too far out of round they can bind up and break the nose off 
the starter.

In any event, you need to "bite the bullet" and yank it apart and 
replace or repair the flywheel, and of course check the nose of the 
starter as well.  It may already be cracked.

There are a few industrious folks in here who repair loose flywheels.  
Most of them cut rivets out and they bolt up the flywheels after 
Carefully aligning the parts.  All the manual shift 'Vairs that have 
been here at my place have had bolted flywheels.   I've seen flywheels 
that were welded that worked out well also, but that takes a  bit of 
talent etc.

tony..


On 5/10/2020 11:12 AM, Billsmileyiii via VirtualVairs wrote:
> Question on a 63 Monza convertible, original owner, 103K miles. I was concerned some time back when there was a discussion about abad flywheel and starter motors. It raised my concern that our vehicle had a bad flywheel. Our vehicle would have an intermittent problem withstarting. Where it sounded like the starter was not engaging the flywheel.It might occur 2-3 times with turning the key but it always resolved andthe car would start. While idling in neutral (3 speed manual) it was noisy(rattling?). That noise would disappear when the clutch was engaged.Recently the car started up instantaneously. I left it running, when I gotback in to move it,  it stalled. When I tried to restart there was no indication of it cranking, just a "whaaaa" sound. I attached a super starter to exclude a battery problem, same result. Is this a flywheel failure a solenoid failure, bad starter motor?  Thoughts on the cause, diagnostic steps?  ThanksBill :)y

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