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Re: Valeo woes
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2016 10:23 am
by jimmyg
well, I did some more testing last night with my other battery. And there were some strange noises coming from the unit. It would spin, but most noticeably, not spin down or idle down smoothly.
Opening the unit up, I found the planetary gear cover had fallen out of it's recess and was shorting out the armature. (Known problem so not a real surprise).
It appears that Euromotoelectrics has a replacement armature with the cover or shield built onto it, greatly improving on the original design.
the rest of the starter is like new, has low miles and I was surprised to even see that the field magnets are clamped in place, not glued.
jimmyg
Re: Valeo woes
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2016 8:04 pm
by Duane Ausherman
My Toyota Camry has 320 k miles and the starter is original. I have never experienced this in my life.
Re: Valeo woes
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2016 9:06 pm
by Major Softie
Duane Ausherman wrote:My Toyota Camry has 320 k miles and the starter is original. I have never experienced this in my life.
And, actually, Toyota starters are kinda known for failure at around 100k, so I guess you just got one of the good ones.
Re: Valeo woes
Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 10:59 am
by Duane Ausherman
MS, hadn't heard that, so it is a good thing that I gave the car away before the starter failed on me.
Re: Valeo woes
Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 12:31 pm
by Ken in Oklahoma
Duane Ausherman wrote:MS, hadn't heard that, so it is a good thing that I gave the car away before the starter failed on me.
Now Duane, what are you doing buying into what the Major said? He might have just made that up and put it on the internet.
Ken
Re: Valeo woes
Posted: Sun May 01, 2016 1:05 pm
by Duane Ausherman
Ken, you cynic. If its on the Internet, it must be true.
That would mean that I gave it away for no reason.
Re: Valeo woes
Posted: Mon May 02, 2016 2:44 pm
by enigmaT120
Duane Ausherman wrote:MS, hadn't heard that, so it is a good thing that I gave the car away before the starter failed on me.
Especially since those cars don't have kick starters.
Re: Valeo woes
Posted: Mon May 09, 2016 1:05 pm
by jimmyg
has anyone on the board rebuilt one of these Valeo's with parts from Euromotoelectrics?
I ordered a new planetary gear cover plate which is too big (by .080") to fit into the gear recess. Euromotoelectrics says it's the right one and will fit. (Trust me, it won't) unless I buy a super nice hydraulic press and hope that the nylon material that holds it doesn't crack.
So I ended up using the previous cover, after re-forming the tangs and then applying some JB Weld (for plastic).
Any thoughts?
jimmyg