Been quite a year..and noticed I hadn't posted here for awhile...
So I'll try to recount the races with the good and the bad (like George, I had a few "set backs" as well)...starting with the Sparta Nats above...
Seems Things were going well (too well) after working the bugs out in the 22 from the first race, I had a string of Victorys...Even running Saturday at Sparta, a crummy start and still worked my way to the front for a win..
But then Sunday morn, getting ready for another shot at it I was firing up the A/P and she kicked back and ate a gear...No biggie, I just throw in a backup starter...(and this is where the "fun" begins... :? )
If you remember a few pages back, how I modify the starter bolt holes to get full engagement, and grind the "bump" off the top to clear the flywheel...seems I didn't grind "enough" off my back up starter and it was rubbing on the bottom of the flywheel...
So I slap in the back up starter and try cranking it over...It's turning slow and jerky and making all kinds of noise (besides draining my battery down)...
I grab the flywheel and try turning the motor by hand and feel this grinding/clunking and my mind blanks out..."I Blew My Motor after the feature yesterday...ARGHHH.." :x (at this point I wasn't thinking "starter" I figured the motor bound up on cool down the night before)...
Add in it's almost time to practice and I decide to pull the motor and run the back up...I drove all this way, I'm gonna run something...
So we pull the motor and install the back up
with the same starter and it grinds and grumbles worse than the first..!!!
Now I'm really bumming..thinking I got TWO bad motors and their calling IMOW Heat to the line...I'm done for the day...Bummer...
So I figure I'll open the 22 to see what the damage is...and THERE AIN'T ANY..!!! :shock:
So I go back to the backup motor and spin 'er a few more times and start seeing this aluminum dust coming out by the starter... :o Now I know what it is, pull the starter sure enough...grind the hump down a bit more and reinstall...
Battery has just enough to turn 'er once or twice and she fires!!
I'm gonna be running !!! Put on charger cause the battery is dead...
So the feature gets called and I get dressed and go to start...NUTTIN.... :x
Battery didn't take a charge after all that grinding and it ain't gonna start...
Now I'm really Bumming... Perfectly good motor tore apart in the trailer and back up won't start cause the battery puked...
Talk about your "setbacks"...
Oh well, at least I got a nice scenic 9 hour drive to fume over it on the way back... :twisted: