Starter disengages too soon

JasonNC

My six volt starter disengages before the engine has time to pump gas to carburetor.  I've converted to 12 volts and kept the six volt starter.  At first I thought it was the timing and the starter was disengaging once the engine was about to start, but it does the same thing with the distributor cap removed.  Any advice?

rusty176

They don't really like 12 volts if you can put a voltage resistor on the power supply to drop it down to even 8 volts it should be better

Frankvintagefullflowcom

That would take one monster resistor to handle the  current draw of a starter. If you have a 6 V starter then you haven't thoroughly "converted" to 12V. Sure......they work for a while but eventually beat the hell out of the drive and/or flywheel ring gear.

As for your drive "kicking out" too early (premature ekickulation, it's called) If that happens without an ignition system in play, it may be a bad spot (or three) in the ring gear. Take the lower cover off and rotate the flywheel through a full turn and look for three worn areas about 3 inches long each.

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There are several methods in use to make Hudson starters work in a 12 Volt system. I made the choice to convert my operational 6 volt starters to 12 volts. This change created a starter that does not bang into the flywheel. You can examine an instruction sheet with part numbers that will guide you to creating a compatible 12 Volt starter. Go to Electrical Systems select that page after my page is displayed to view that instruction sheet. Good luck http://hudsonrestoration1948-54.com/index.html#RESTORATIONAIDS