[quote]ORIGINAL: TREADSTONE



..It says that when the engine was started the motor failed to disengage...which placed undue thrust on the main shaft....which defeated the pre-load on the main bearing..


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Read the above statement because in my experience the motor only engages to START the engine now if the bendix in this case did disengage then the engine was running fine then they took off and the bendix did move onto the compressor nut it would simply scim/bounce off like a stone scimming across a pond. With the difference in speed it would not purchase together unless its a realy crappy design bendix which in honesty I don't think phil would do that do you??. So from this I can only assume that it never disengaged from starting but I will have to read the article before I comment more.



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