Trying to put starter back together using same bushings but can't get them to stay in place so I can put them over the shaft. Please Help!

Are you sure you got the transmission shaft into the pilot bushing when you put it together. Put a socket on the crank pulley and see if you can turn the engine by hand, if you can't turn it or it's really tight loosen the transmission bolts and see if it turns. I hope this helps. Take care. If you have more questions for Me about this Truck use testimonial and it will show up in my email.

Hi Jorge:
If the starter is still on the motor, the starter gears may not be engaging on the ring gear on the outside of the flywheel.
Also, there will be splines on the transmission shaft that have to line up with the ones on the inside of the clutch or torque converter plate.
Try rotating the transmission or the engine drive shaft back and forth to help line the pieces up so they can slide together.

You are smart to leave it off. It sounds like the bushings in the fan motor are dry or gummed up. You will need to pull the cover off to get to the fan motor. Look on the front and back ends of the motor to see if there is a place to oil the motor that you could put several drops of oil in each. If there are no oil spots you will need to get the oil onto the shaft next to the bushing and turn it by hand to try to work it into the bushing. This is often a tight area so you may have to get creative and use a small tube or spray to get to the shaft. It will also help if you can tilt the unit back to help work the oil into the bushing. this may get you going for a little while but the motor is going to have to be removed to dismantle and lube it better. Good Luck.

Use a C clamp type bushing tool to press out the old bushing and install the new one.
Alternately, you can use a pneumatic chisel to dent the bushing from the back being very careful to not nick the control arm or the shaft. A little penetrating oil would help. Once the bushing loosens the pneumatic chisel can pop it out.
Mark the shaft with a piece of tape to get it back the same way. Once the first bushing is out, the shaft should slide out through the hole making it easy to remove the second bushing.
To install a new one make sure that the A frame won't bend when installing the bushing. Don't forget to put the shaft back before installing the second bushing. Don't tighten the nuts on the ends of the shaft until the A frame is installed and lower A Frame supported with a jack approximating the normal ride height. Fixing the bushing rotation at normal ride height will make them last longer.

Is the clutch put back the in the same position ( Not back to front?) Has the throw-out bearing been refitted correctly. ( The small bearing on the shaft which pushes the clutch in?) If it worked before, and not now, it is certain that something has gone back incorrectly.

Look up Saving Old Seagulls and IGNORE the rubbish that some jokers have posted (Seagulls don't have an engine check light!) Most Seagulls have constant mesh gearing. Lubrication is by 140 grade gear oil. If you cannot get this, ST90, EP90 or Hypoy 90 will do, the important thing is to use a heavy oil NOT GREASE not even the semi-fluid grease used on weed-wackers (they have ball bearings but a Seagull has bronze bushes) The "clutch" on some Seagulls is basically a fork which puts the gears out of mesh, there are no clutch plates. Good luck!.

If the starter spins but the engine does not turn, it's not your starter. It is your starter drive or Bendix on the starter shaft. Disconnect the battery. Take the outer primary cover off. Take the wires off the starter solenoid, remove the pin, cup and spring on the inside of the primary, and remove the solenoid. With this off, you can remove the starter shaft. Clamp the starter shaft in a vise with soft jaws on it. You don't want to scar your starter shaft. You'll see a round thing on the end of the shaft with two flats on it. Use a wrench to take this off. IT HAS LEFT HANDED THREADS. Slide the old Bendix off and put the new one on. Put a drop of Loctite 271 red on the threads and put the nut back on the end and tighten. Put your bake back together in reverse of how you took it apart. When you buy the replacement Bendix, but a good one. Do not buy the Chinese version, they're junk.

Good Luck
Steve

I don't understand exactly what you mean by the bearing getting "stuck" in outer primary. The starter shaft has bearing race on the of it. This bearing race is also a nut that holds the shaft and it's parts together. The outer primary cover should have either a bearing or a bushing in it. The bushing or bearing in the outer primary provides support for the starter shaft while starting the engine.

Now, take the starter shaft fork loose and remove the shaft. Put the shaft into the bearing or bushing and make sure it turns freely. If not, you'll need to take the shaft and the outer primary to an automotive machine shop and have the bushing fitted to the "nut" on the end of the shaft. If you have a bearing in the outer primary, the nut must be turned down to fit it but neither of these cases are common, matter of fact, I've never heard of it having to be done.

If the "nut" on the outer end of the shaft seems to fit the bearing or bushing in the outer primary like it should, then your problem is an alignment problem. The outer primary, inner primary, and starter assembly are not aligned. There should be a couple of alignment pins in the inner primary that aligns the outer primary when installed. There are also two alignment pins in the starter gear housing on the backside of the inner primary. You may have to remove these pins in order to get everything to align properly.

Welcome to the world of foreign made Harley parts. Regrettably, we have to rely on foreign made parts to keep the older bikes running. Not all the parts fit like they should. I once spent three days trying to get a set of kick starter gears to work on a 72 FLH. I never did get them to work but managed to use the clutch gear to repair the transmission but I had to modify it to get it to work.

This will take some work, and some elbow grease, but what happened is the motor bushings most likely seized. Try turning the blades with your hand. If they are stiff, the bushings are seized. What you will have to do is take the fan apart. First by removing the blades, then by taking the motor off of the frame. Then depending on the type of bolts/ screws that hold the motor together, remove them. Then split the motor apart by taking a flat blade screwdriver and sliping it between the two pieces of the motor and turning it so they slip apart. then once the motor is apart, shine up and clean the motor's shaft so it is clcan and shiny. then do the same for the bushing/ beringholes in the motor's casing. then drip some oil in the berings, and on the motor shaft, and put the motor back together. then put it back on the frame, and plug the fan in. turn it on. the shaft should just spin without any help. if this does spin, put the blades back on, and put the guard back on. Then you sucessfully rebuilt the motor and the fan!

I assume you're talking about the starter jackshaft. I'd suspect that there is a misalignment between the starter and the bushing in the outer primary. I'm reluctant to say this but you may have to pull the dowel pins out of the inner primary that are supposed to align the outer primary up with the inner. I've heard of them being improperly placed causing this misalignment.

Now, if for some reason you have the inner primary off, you may can bolt the inner and outer together without the starter on the inner and take it to a machine shop to have the alignment checked. I've never done this but I had one checked once. The machinist cuts a bar or tube that fits the jackshaft support bearing in the outer primary. It's long enough to protude up through the starter hole in the inner primary. With this, he checked the alignment of the primary covers. You may can just use the jack shaft to check it with, I have never tried that. I've done one like this but I can't say that I fixed it because the guy has not come back with another broken jackshaft. I think he would if he broke another one.

Good luck
Steve