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Brent,
I have installed a ring gear already and it is not that hard to do. A little heat from a torch and it falls on. Make sure the chamfers on the teeth are towards the starter. You can also get a hand crank. Just be sure that you don't put your thumb over the handle, because these motors can kick back hard. Keep your face away from the hand crank also. As long as the carb is primed, my MB starts first try with the hand crank. My MB had mismatched parts also, it took me a couple of weeks to sort the starting system out.
Dave Fillman
45 MB
---- you wrote:
> I have an MB with a CJ2A engine in it. It used to start great, then the
> starter got weak. I had it totally revamped and took the jeep 250 miles
> away to my dads farm. Since then the bendix rarely engages, and I have to
> shake it while someone else holds the starter switch down just to get it to
> engage. After doing that for two years, the flywheel ring gear is all
> butchered up.
> Should I :
> Buy a new ring gear, heat it up and install it in the field? Is that hard
> to do?
> Buy a new flywheel, install it in the field? Is this a bad idea due to
> balancing problems?
> Go back down to the farm and put the 10 teeth bendix back on the starter?
> Roll start the jeep from now on?
>
> Your help is appreciated!
>
> Brent
>
>
>
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