stator plate too tight on 9.5

[ultra353]

My friend was changing a cracked coil and he noticed the the stator plate had a bit of slop. I told him about the tighting up the brass collar and He went overboard with the hammer and punch, now he says the stator wont move when reassembled. I told him to take it back apart and pound out his indentations and try it again. He called back later to say he did that but its now marred -up and will now move when its all reassembled but the throttle is pretty hard to turn.
ANY sugesstions, maybe take the ring off and sand out his marring marks, get a new or used ring, he did say that if he just lightly tightened down the 4 screws it seems to move freely when back together but i`m concerned about them comming loose when running, should i tell him to do that but use loctite so they won`t back out ? (he said the taper side is down on the support ring) Thanks

 

[14ftgrumman]

Re: stator plate too tight on 9.5

Murhy's Law:

Once something is FUBAR'ed, anything done to fix it will only make it worse.

Replace the FUBAR'ed part.

EBay comes to mind.

 

[jonesg]

Re: stator plate too tight on 9.5

Loctite the screws and see how it goes, parts are easy to find if it continues to be a problem.

 

[ultra353]

Re: stator plate too tight on 9.5

Thanks for the replies. He said he sanded down the ring as best he could to remove the marks and just snugged-up the screws with lock tight. Says it seems the throttle works pretty good, stator has no play in it now. He told me it seems to idle much smoother now.