moisture inside flywheel

[wes0]

Anybody ever run across a stuck bendix and it seems like a little water or moisture got inside whats the trick seal is new just shooting for idea. Should I put some marine grease along bottom on the seal the fly wheel doesn't have block off its a 701 2005 motor

 

[Harbor]

I grease both sides of the FW gasket and behind the stator wire grommet. You can also use silicone. 2nd, put a Silicone beed on starter nose, so when starter is reinstalled it acts like secondary seal to your starter nose seals.

 

[wes0]

Ok thanks. Once bendix sticks pretty much toast?

 

[Harbor]

Mine where done after rusting. You can find good OE used for 50 or less usually

 

[Mike W]

If it's not too badly rusted, try soaking your bendix in transmission fluid for a couple days. That should free it up.

 

[Wizards Powersports]

$30 shipped for a mint OEM if you're interested.

 

[Quinc]

You can take apart the bendix pretty easy and clean it up with some wd and a wirebrush. There is a thread on here somewhere.

 

[Scraggly]

When mine did that it wasn't a leak but humidity that caused a little moisture inside. Where I live the humidity is very high in the summer.

 

[Myself]

I seal the front cover with silicone gasket maker and use synthetic sticky grease around the starter snout.

 

[FlightPlanDan]

Yamabond or something similar can't hurt when sealing the flywheel cover.
Although the starters are "O-ring sealed", I've always used 5200 as an extra between metal surfaces. This means pulling the motor to do it properly, but it's worked for me so far.