GS 650 gt starter motor

[inmate]

Good evening ladies and gents. As above, will any other starter motors from other air/oil cooled engines fit and work with my GS650gt. I ask as I know the 650 is a bit of an oddball in the shaftie family. The carbon blocks in the stator have broken in bits; I would appreciate any help as I wish to have the engine running to sell on.

[wraith]

Why don't you just get some new carbon block?

[inmate]

Ah, thank you Wraith. Didn’t know that was possible, wouldn’t know were to find that stuff, Egay?

Could they just be stuck in with super glue or Araldite?

[TonyGee]

if you can't find the right size then get bigger ones and cut them down, its easy enough to do. generally they are soldered in but sometimes they can be held in with a screw. 

[imago]

Just checking, but is everyone talking about the same thing here?

There aren't any carbon blocks in the stator/field coils (windings). So do you mean the brushes (touch the commutator with a single wire attached)? Or what it sounds like to me, the magnets stuck to the inside of the starter case?

[inmate]

 

 

@imagoyes the magnets stuck to the inside of the stator housing, not the brushes that run on the commutator/rotor.

They appear to be made of carbon and have come loose and broken into many pieces.

[imago]

Ah, yeah they do break up and sometimes come unstuck from the outside. They're not available as a separate part unfortunately, but the good news is they're the same motor on the 650, 550 and 450. So you can search for any of those and even if the motor you get is iffy or unknown the outer case with the magnets stuck to the inside will swap straight over.

[imago]

Any of these will fit GS 550 GS450 GS400

[TonyGee]

1 hour ago, imago said:

So do you mean the brushes (touch the commutator

yeah i thought we were talking about the brushes 

[imago]

4 minutes ago, TonyGee said:

yeah i thought we were talking about the brushes 

I did too, then I read it again and it made me wonder.

[inmate]

Thanks for the help @imagogives me more choice down the breakers, if not Egay