Starter and serpentine belt…

lz33w7 · Mar 14, 2024

Hey guys,

I’m asking for a friend….does the starter use a “gear” to start the car and it’s not being driven by the serpentine belt?

My friend is a a real idiot…even a real big jerk sometimes.

Kindly,
v/r,
Stephen

FormulaDynamics · Mar 14, 2024

Here she is! That gear does all the work! Bolts directly into the engine block

TedWray · Mar 21, 2024

When I was a kid, before Mary Cunningham, most guys knew that on American cars that little gear and its mechanism were called a Bendix.

Ted

timado404 · Mar 14, 2024

Starter is an electric motor powered by the car battery only, no help at all from the serpentine belt. A gear on the end of the starter extends and "catches" the flywheel to turn the engine over, for startup. Once the starter disengages, its gear retracts back and away from the flywheel.

lz33w7 · Mar 14, 2024

Thank you @FormulaDynamics and @timado404! I appreciate you asking this question for my friend. 😜🫡

Kindly,
v/r,
Stephen

Catmanv2 · Mar 15, 2024

Is your friend aware of any car ever that has used a belt to start? I'm just curious as to where your friend got this idea

C

lz33w7 · Mar 15, 2024

Well….my friend sometimes is not the brightest bulb in the box…..in fact….he fell out of the “dumb tree” and hit every branch on the way down.

😂😂😂😂🤣😂

Kindly,
v/r,
Stephen

Black Mazerati · Mar 15, 2024

Perhaps he's thinking of the old days when you had motors you would wrap a cord around and yank! Trying to remember if it was my grandfather's lawn mower or something similar!

lz33w7 · Mar 15, 2024

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 - I asked my “friend” why he would ask that and he said honestly, he just didn’t know and was too lazy to fully investigate. I told him he was an idiot and to not be lazy - I think he “ghosted” me LMAO!

Kindly,
v/r,
Stephen

Jason@ Enzo`s Atlanta · Mar 15, 2024

There are applications with mild hybrids that actually use the belt to start the car...Jason

timado404 · Mar 15, 2024

You can sometimes go this route!

Except for these guys.

epb0 · Mar 16, 2024

timado404 said:
You can sometimes go this route!

if the battery is empty, you can pull for a long time!
No battery = no ECU powered = no start

Catmanv2 · Mar 16, 2024

Jason@ Enzo`s Atlanta said:
There are applications with mild hybrids that actually use the belt to start the car...Jason
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RPM Services said:
Several of the hybrid car models by ford and honda use a belt driven Starter/generator assembly for starting, generation and for the hybrid power assist. Nothing on the Maserati side though.

See? Now I've learned something from friends of friends

I was genuinely curious

C

milanojess · Mar 21, 2024

uh, sure the Grecale has the same continental mild hybrid that's avail on many other european cars.

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