Posted by Miroslav Atitch on December 18, 2002 at 12:17:32:
More than 5 times my starter clutch gears and starter motor gear (tail) broke down when I turned the engine off.I was trying different things to solve the problem, wrore in the forum, but no result. When I was looking into the catalog parts list I found that in later models (> 2000) the sterter idle gear No 1 ( part # 12 611 - 24B01 and its pin (part # 09206-10003) are replaced with LIMITER ASSY, starter idle gear(part # 12 600-24B00 or 24B10.These parts are almost interchangeable - since the limiter is about 8mm wider that the original idle gear, you have to remove 8 mm from the "sleeve" of the generator cover.This LIMITER as far as I understand dampfers tha backkick of the piston when engine is shut off by sliding like a clutch the mutual disposition of the two gears (one gear connected to the starter idle gear # 2, the other - to the big starter gear and flywheel) in this unit. After this "modification" which I think Suzuki should done it much earlier - (in almost all Savages that I know in Bulgaria - they are 5-6, in 4 of them thay have broken down starter gears) I hope that this problem will no longer trouble our nice bikes!
Miroslav Atitch