big bear 350 starter removal
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No, the starter is well above the oil level. It gets flung around so the nose of the starter is always oily, but no more than a drip should come from the hole. If the oil is thin and smells of fuel, a leaky float needle may have filled cylinder and sump with fuel, this locks the engine so the starter won't turn. The float chamber breather should stop this happening.
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So likely all it needs is a carb cleaning and or rebuild and new oil in the crankcase? The breather hose was plugged up pretty bad. It was making an awful clunking noise when I was trying to turn it over. That's why I took the starter off in the first place. I wonder if the clunking was because of the fuel in the oil or if it's bad gears.
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I would give it an oil change, find out why the fuel went into the engine rather than draining out of the overflow from the float chamber, and empty the cylinder and air box of fuel. Then find out if it still screeches when you tun the starter. Occasionally it can be the starter bearings, so it is worth putting a little oil on them before refitting the starter.