[Mostin3]

Hi All,

I?ve got a 2015 ec250 and can?t for love nor money get the electric start working, despite trying all sorts. I have pulled the bendix out and it?s clean, works as it should and doesn?t appear to be anything wrong.

When I hit the start button. The bendix flings out engages with the ignition gear but then makes the most awful, hi pitched squeal I?ve heard. It does not turn the motor over.

I?m left thinking it must be one of two things, either one of the gears on the bendix spinning on the bendix shaft or the flywheel spinning on the shaft, if that?s even possible?

I have tried to replicate the former by putting one end of the bendix in a vice and trying to spin the top which I was unable to do.

I should add that the engine starts and runs perfectly off the kicker.