What happened here?

[holjen77]

Stock 701 62t/61x no problems for first 10 rides. Shut off , no spark. Found this Mess. Looks like that large washer went through the stator. Woodruff key good. Stator still tight and attached. We're did that bent washer come from, I don't recognize it.

 

[Roseand]

Don't see any attached pictures

 

[holjen77]

Pics

 

[OCD Solutions]

Bendix washer. That sucks!

 

[holjen77]

We're is that washer on the bendix? The two small washers on either side of the return spring were still there. It still turned over normally

 

[OCD Solutions]

It looks like the spacer washer that goes between the back of the Bendix and the case.

 

[holjen77]

I don't know of a washer there, never put one in my other skis.

 

[OCD Solutions]

It's normally stuck to the back of the bendix so you may not have ever noticed it.

 

[Lumpy]

How is it possible for that to come off the end of the shaft? Unless it fell off during installation and went unnoticed.

 

[550headache]

its most likely been slowly destroying your stator since you last had it apart. grease usually holds them on the back shaft of the bendix.

 

[SXIPro]

its most likely been slowly destroying your stator since you last had it apart. grease usually holds them on the back shaft of the bendix.

Yep. There's been a lot of stator carnage on here lately. I'm in good company.

 

[JMew03]

Yep.. my stator is a paper weight now. Lol

 

[holjen77]

Grabbed a spare bendix from the shelf and sure enough there was that washer. Pulled the old one off and it was missing, but you could see it was on there at one time. Must have fell off when I changed the starter over the winter. Thanks for the help.

 

[restosud]

at least you still have the washer for the rebuild

 

[SXIPro]

Take a lesson from me, when you replace that stator, don't use the stupid phillips head screws to mount it. Go get some nice allen heads that you can really crank on, and use loctite.

 

[JMew03]

Yep. My cases are now junk yard pieces due to my stator falling apart.

 

[550headache]

those phillips are the worst!

 

[Lumpy]

The worst part about those Phillips pan heads (also true with ebox screws) is that everyone uses a #2 bit instead of a #3 like they call for and strips the f*** out of them.

 

[JetManiac]

The worst part about those Phillips pan heads (also true with ebox screws) is that everyone uses a #2 bit instead of a #3 like they call for and strips the f*** out of them.

Agreed. We have a large box of ruined ebox screws from butchers with regular #2 phillips!

Impact screw gun works great with #3 bit to loosen and tighten OEM stator and ebox grounding screws, but we sell allen bolt kits for stator or ebox grounding for those that prefer them instead.

 

[CRJ]

Grabbed a spare bendix from the shelf and sure enough there was that washer. Pulled the old one off and it was missing, but you could see it was on there at one time. Must have fell off when I changed the starter over the winter. Thanks for the help.

I always wash out my stator area when im in there, it helps prevent this.