General Category => Engine & Transmission => Topic started by: vintage on June 07, 2011, 04:02:16 AM
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I have never taken one of these simplex engines apart and I don't want to do any damage. How do I safely remove the kickstart gear and the flywheel? I don't want to put a pipe wrench on the starter gear and damage it, is there a better way?
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Vintage, here is the info from the 1948 manual. I think the pinion gear size is the same for all years.
Vintage, what's your name and where are you located?
Rick
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exactly the info I needed !
My name is Dan and I'm in Shelby Township (near Utica)
Thanks Rick!
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ok removing the starter gear was easy, 1 1/4 12 point socket and zip gun made fast work of it, pulling the flywheel itself was another issue but I did get it off by making a quick puller using the 3 threaded holes. Magneto is in good shape, missing the plug wires, I am assuming a plug wire to the back side of each of the two coils?
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One of the coils is the ignition, the other is the lighting coil.
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okay that makes sense, however I have seen some simplex engines with 2 plug wires, are both plug wires attached to the larger coil? The small coil is for the lighting?
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The ignition coil should have 2 outputs. As far as I can find out, there is no coil currently being made that is a replacement for the dual output coil. Wayne Mahaffey sells a coil with one output and he told me to just use the other wire as a dummy. I think if you try to hook both wires together, they will ground each other out.
I have spoken to a guy in ma. that may have these coils available in the future, so lets hope.
Rick
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Rick ,
It's been over a year . Have you since spoken to this gentleman from Ma about the dual output ignition coil availability ?
I destroyed my original and would like to have a working dual output coil , again .
Pete . :)