The flywheel dose not stay on starter long enough to turn over motor. slips off and starter reves up and flywheel comes back and hits starter and makes a loud crack. had starter rebuilt cause a new one is 650 dollars from dealer . when i instaled new starter i noticed that fly wheel had about a half inch of play on shaft from side to side no teeth r broken is there a spring or something that is broken behind clutch and if so do i need any special tools to fix it?

starter failing

For the quad, I can only speak from automotive experience but does the starter have a smaller cylinder mounted directly on it? If so, this is the magnetic solenoid that engages a Bendix gear drive on the starter shaft into the engine flywheel gear to crank it. The actual switch that turns on the starter motor itself is in the back end of this solenoid. If the motor turns, the solenoid is working. If it doesn't have this solenoid, it will have a shallow screw drive cut directly in the motor shaft with a Bendix drive gear on it. When you hit the starter, the shaft turns quickly and basically "unscrews" the Bendix drive to the end of the motor shaft and engages it with the flywheel gear, again, cranking the engine. The weak link in both of these systems is the Bendix drive itself. It has a built in ratchet based on ball bearings so that if the shaft happens to stick in the engaged position after the engine starts, it will only spin the Bendix drive itself and not the starter motor avoiding damage to it. These ball bearings will eventually break up allowing the Bendix to free wheel in both directions instead of catching in one direction to crank the engine and slipping in the other direction to protect the motor. I hope this helps.

I would put my money on a bad starter motor. I probably has either burned out brushes or the commutator is severely pitted and the brushes aren't getting juice into the armature. When you click it a hundred times, the starter motor turns enough to hit a good spot on the commutator and the motor takes off and spins the engine. Replace the starter.

You have a bad starter one way clutch inside the motor. You fixed the external problem now you have to fix the internal one. If the starter motor is turning but the motor is not, then the one way clutch is slipping on the large starter gear next to the flywheel. You will have to replace both the one-way clutch attached to the flywheel and the large starter gear that fits into it to fix the problem. The contact surface on the gear has become rough or chattered and is no longer smooth , so the clutch will not grab it hard enough to turn the motor over and start it.

Yes. Most starters come with shims. More than likely that is exactly what you need to do is to shim the starter. More than likely the bendix is hitting the flywheel. Just as you said.

If you can hear it spin(starter), but not actually hear the motor turning over or trying to crank/start..... Sounds like starter not engaging-Replace starter. Small possibility flywheel is damaged, but less likely.

three people i know plus myself have this same problem with this same model tractor. new starters and new batteries did not help any of us

Take the starter cover off, look at the Plastic/metal gear. Is it in the up position on the flywheel, if so, the starter is not operating as it should. The gear should come back down out of the flywheel area. When the gears stay up like this, it causes the flywheel to be in a bind. The starter has to have the bendix to shift the gear up into the flywheel to turn over the engine. This is a common problem when a mower will start sometimes and hesitate like it don't have enough of battery power to turn it over, but in reality, it's binding and will burn the starter up if you try to start it too much.

you have sticky carbs or an air leak on the inlet manefoulds take the bike right back and have words with the guy who "fixed it!" like jently grad him round the neck and bang his head onto a wall till he gets it right this time you payed good money for the fix,, go back and get it done right

you can actually just replace the starter bendix