bakerocb
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 Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 5:40 am Post subject: IO-240 Starter |
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7/8/2012
Hello Tim, I was a bit surprised to read of your recent experience with a TCM provided starter for the IO-240 engine. I thought that all of those crappy TCM designed starters had long since failed and been purged from the field.
That was a very ugly chapter in TCM’s history when they tried to screw Bill Bainbridge of B&C by reverse engineering one of his starters when their original design proved to be a miserable failure. TCM was eventually forced to buy and install B&C starters at the factory on new engines being shipped. TCM agreed to pay for a B&C starter for my engine for me to install when I refused to accept their designed starter that had been shipped with my engine, IO-240 B9B Serial number 806236.
If anyone else is still operating a TCM designed starter on their IO-240 (it takes some detail part number sleuthing to determine that) I strongly recommend switching to a B&C starter because the TCM designed starter can fail in a manner that will foul up the interior of the engine – big expense and some danger.
I have extensive postings on this subject in my files (and there are probably also some in the Matronics archives) if anyone is interested in reviewing that history.
OC
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Time: 09:31:00 PM PST US
From: "F. Tim Yoder" <ftyoder(at)yoderbuilt.com (ftyoder(at)yoderbuilt.com)>
Subject: IO-240 Starter
FYI for those who have this engine or a light weight TCM starter. Circa
1997.
My IO-240 came with a TCM starter, Part # 654046 E. It failed at 475
hours. I had been told by a TCM tech. that even though it had a Cont tag
on it, it was really made by B&C. I called B&C and made arrangements to
send it to them for repair. After they received it the called to advise
me that it was not one of theirs but a knockoff that Cont. had made. B&C
didn't think that Cont. would repair theirs anymore. I did not check
with Cont. because I decided I wanted one of B&C's. They sent me a new
one and my old one at no shipping charge. In a side by side comparison,
the B&C starter is much better built. There was a dramatic improvement
in prop rotation speed by the starter.
Tim
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