I have a Jegs pro mini starter and one out of ten times it won't engage hot or cold.  When it does it you can't  pry the gear out.  If I hit the starter a bunch of times it will work again.  I pulled the starter out and took it to a starter shop and they could not find anything wrong.  Works 90% of the time anyone ever had this problem.

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I had the same problem with a summet racing starter. Tossed it in the trash and got a MSD high torque.


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No issues with rail kit clearance with that starter?

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Nope, but i have to pull the motor to get it out. its less and 1/4 inch away from the tunnel.

Jim no need to pull your motor, to me it sounds like the bendex is getting stuck, maybe rust or corosion. Thats the same starter that was in the boat when i bought it 4 or so years ago.


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I pulled a took it to a starter shop that is good.  They were not able to find anything wrong with it.  He pulled it apart and found wrong.  It will spin but not engage and you can even manually move the gear out.  Never ran across this before, if you hit the starters 10 or 15 times it will work again.  It's hard to order one as I have already found out some mini's will not fit with the rail kit.

get one if jim Brock's  mini starters I got one lighter than the summit and jegs ones and comes with a shim kit. Sounds to me your key ignition switch is taking a shit had the same problem at Avi last year at one of the scjb deals and when I did get it to start it was so loaded up I had smoke for days but got me they the weekend lol


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X2 or possible wrong gauge power wire will cause same problem