Starter motor question.
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 12:55 pm
Recently I acquired a Pantah 500SL in bits. In order to clean it up better I decided to take the starter off and check out the starter while it was off the bike.
Now a few weeks back I had the starter off my 907ie to replace the brushes and the screw behind the starter intermediate gear could be accessed through one of the holes in the pinion. I was a bit surprised to find that on the Pantah, although there 2 holes in the pinion none of them lined with the screw. In fact the screw, as you can see from the picture is directly behind the gear teeth so there is no chance of making a hole for it. Which leads me to believe that there must have been a major redesign of the crankcases for the later models, possibly rotating the screw holes anti-clockwise a little. So I'm wondering when this change was made and if the 750 Paso engine has a hole to access the starter motor screw or is it like the Pantah.
Now a few weeks back I had the starter off my 907ie to replace the brushes and the screw behind the starter intermediate gear could be accessed through one of the holes in the pinion. I was a bit surprised to find that on the Pantah, although there 2 holes in the pinion none of them lined with the screw. In fact the screw, as you can see from the picture is directly behind the gear teeth so there is no chance of making a hole for it. Which leads me to believe that there must have been a major redesign of the crankcases for the later models, possibly rotating the screw holes anti-clockwise a little. So I'm wondering when this change was made and if the 750 Paso engine has a hole to access the starter motor screw or is it like the Pantah.