Bad Bendix!
the engine is locked up. Not good. Very expensive.
The starter motor is located between the transmission and the engine which engages the starter clutch with the flywheel, which rotates and starts the engine.
Starter motor ring gear is a large gear cog that fits around the circumference of the flywheel on rear of engine. When the starter motor spins, its 'Bendix' engages this gear to rotate the crankshaft..
First make sure that this battery has a charge. Check its volts. Then if the battery is good, make sure the conectionns are clean. Then clean the connection to the starter relay ( solenoid ) just beside the battery. Then if needed, clean the conx. at the starter. If all the conx. are good, and still no start, jump the positive battery conx. at the starter relay to one of the small plug in conx. If the starter engages, then possible bad ign. switch. Hope something works. Good luck.
If I were testing it, I'd use a jumper wire from the direct battery lead to the ignition switch starter contact that's on the starter. If the solenoid engages and turns the starter I'd know the solenoid is good. If not, I'd verify that the battery and cable is good before pulling the starter. Not knowing anyone else's level of comfort/competence, I wouldn't recommend that procedure if you don't know your way around the described components.
Modern starters include: * the starter motor... a motor * the solenoid, which engages the electrical current to the starter AND engages the gear to the flywheel. * the bendix, which is a gear that engages the starter to the flywheel.
To turn the engine over so that it will start. The starter engages cogs on the flywheel.
solenid switch engages and disengages the bendix on the starter
You want to bypass the ignition system and jump the solenoid to see if the starter engages. I f it does, it is not the starter,if it doesn't, than it is the stater. You can also jump power straight from the batt to the pos cable of the starter to see if it engages.
The bushings and/or the brushes are worn on it.
No,there is no circuit protection between the battery and the starter. If the starter is causing a dead short to ground, there is definitely something wrong with the starter. Pull it and have it checked. The switch that engages the high current is inside the starter. If the starter is fried and perhaps something melted to ground, every time you engage it you will get a dead short.
The Bendix on a Ford starter is a one-way gear that engages when the starter is activated. and the Bendix is perhaps one of the most common starter failures.
GM usually uses a combination solenoid/switch/relay located beside the starter. One end engages the starter. The other end connects the battery to the starter motor.
A jackshaft is an assembly that connects the starter shaft/spline to the starting gear. When the starter button is pushed a pinion gear (part of the jackshaft assy.) engages the starter gear spinning the starter gear.
It's actually on the starter, and it's the small cylinder attached to it. Windstar starters have a dual-purpose solenoid that not only engages the starter gear with the flywheel, but also acts as the starter relay.
the starter solenoid only engages the starter when the key switch is activated. the alternator is what charges the battery which is located under or along side the flywheel
It does fit what happens when the starter is failing.