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Originally Posted by funola
Your starter sounds to be on the slow side to my "trained" ear but not slow enough to not start a normal healthy engine. My healthy starter and battery spins at 180 to 190 rpm. I just saw a post of a starter at 200 rpm and a gear reduction starter at 214 rpm. Yours sounds to be around 140 rpm. Your starter also slow down then speed up at approximately a one hertz rate that mine does not do. Something in the starter or something else causing it? Can you hear it?
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Thanks, I verified that it is still slow after fulling charging the battery overnight inside the house. I also hear (and feel) the 1 Hz rhythm. Is there anything other than the starter itself that might cause it to be slow/bumpy?