Cub Cadet... if I were a cussing man

[Wingdo]

I had been wondering for over a year why my brand new starter was dragging sometimes, catching and kicking over at others, and spinning with no load at all on others. I finally got fed up and took the dang thing apart to see what was going on...

The brushes look good, as do all the other components, except for a magnetic dust all over everything. After further evaluation, I discovered one of the four magnets (located on the inside of the housing) had come unglued and was more or less floating around inside.

Now the question: I'm not a wealthy man... since all the other parts look fine (cleaned thoroughly which is how I found the problem) and the one loose magnet is only in two pieces, can it be re-glued together and then be re-glued back into the housing? It, as do all four of them, looks like they were glued with some type of epoxy originally.

[Bearfootfarm]

It couldn't hurt to try

[plowjockey]

It's already broken. Why not?

You'll have to replace the whole thing anyway. The fix may last forever.

Buy the best epoxy NAPA sells.

Let us know.

[Wingdo]

Nope... doesn't work.

[Txrider]

It's two magnets now each with it's own NS poles. I doubt it would function as efficiently as a new magnet would, but it might still function if it was doing decent with the magnet not even glued in.

You could always even try it without that magnet in there at all.