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The advantage of removing the entire ignition cover is that you can then remove the bendix, poke it into the bore on the Bendix cover and fiddle it about with your fingers in an attempt to identify too little clearance. That is the idea anyway. But I wasn?t actually able to determine anything except that I thought it felt ok but was actually too bound up.
But perhaps my technique is flawed.... But you also get a chance to have a good look at all the bits inside the case. |
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Let?s try a test. Before you take anything apart charge up your battery 100% and then grab your wife?s hair dryer or a manly heat gun and warm up the Bendix cover until it is warm to the touch like it has been sitting in the summer sun. This should expand the Bendix bore in the outer case and if that is your problem the bike should start ok with this warmed up cover.
If the bike starts we can assume that there is a excess friction so removing the Bendix cover only and polishing the bore with a felt dremel pad and then applying some fresh grease should sort your starter. I would do myself but didn?t think of it soon enough and now my starter actually works. Crap 💩 |
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Cool. I have the bendix cover gasket so I’ll polish it up and let y’all know if it gets the bike start better in when gear. Since completing the full starting system wire upgrade it’ll start every time in neutral hot or cold but in gear is hit or miss. Hopefully this is the final silver bullet for the starter gremlins. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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I'm not sure if anyone mentioned this problem so I'll post it for the good of the cause. I was helping a friend with his 2018 300 after his starter began making horrible noises. He thought it might be do to the recent addition of a squish mod for race fuel but it turned out to be a wear issue. After 80 hours on the bike the small bendix cover that serves as a support bushing for the smallest gear had worn and the hole was elongated. This was easy to spot and would cause the small gear to try to walk over the top of the fine gear teeth on the bendix. I'd suggest removing the cover every other oil change and putting a dab of grease in the hole.
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Good suggestion about regularly greasing the Bendix cover bore. Did your buddy machine his worn cover to accept a bushing or just buy a new cover?
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Yes that is a good idea but that?s a lot of gaskets.
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GASGAS took the old KTM design that never worked and copied it. lol. By design changing the direction of the drive 90 degrees it's always going to have power robbing problems. |
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Grease one side of the gasket and use high tack on the other side and it will come off without tearing and you can use it over and over.
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