Starter Pedal
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nkaminar
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Welcome to the Barn.
Check for binding. Also, the switch can have a weak lever. The rod pushes the lever down and if it is weak it may not push back up. Some reproduction switches have a weak lever. People have put small pieces of soft rubber under the spring to help it return up.
Check for binding. Also, the switch can have a weak lever. The rod pushes the lever down and if it is weak it may not push back up. Some reproduction switches have a weak lever. People have put small pieces of soft rubber under the spring to help it return up.
Klattu1929
Senior Member
When I went through and put a new starter rod and seal on the on the rod it was tight enough to not allow the starter rod to return. I added a small coil spring between the floor and the disc on the top of rod. As it wears I will remove spring at some point, but it worked excellent. If you haven't changed anything then ya need to do some investigating, not much to it, rod, seal, and switch on starter. Hanging starter is a bad deal.
Klattu1929
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One other thought, if the rod has corrosion on it may just need to pull the rod out and polish it. Give it a squirt of silicone spay and reinstall.
Big hammer
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A little lubricant goes a long way !
Y-Blockhead
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You are lucky it came back up when you pulled on the starter rod. I have seen the contacts stick together, then your only recourse is the disconnect the battery. This is where it is have a battery disconnect switch. I put a small piece of vacuum hose under the moveable contact to act as a spring, similar to what Neil suggested in post #2.
Model A Canuck
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Welcome to the Barn
Gary WA
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Take switch out and apart and clean contacts-welded together!
