It's my understanding that the old shower of sparks magnetos like our
engines have do not have impulse couplers. Maybe I'm wrong and that was
what I heard.
Jim

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Jim Burns wrote:
Yeah, you would have laughed at me jumping in and out of the plane.
After
each try, I pulled the prop through by hand until I heard the bendix
kick
out, then jumped back in and re-engaged the starter. Most of the
time I
could hear it re-engage before it turned by listening out the pilot's
vent
window.
Jim

That sounds odd. In normal operation, your prop has to be turning at
a pretty fair rate in order to disengage the bendix. I've never been
able to do this by hand turning a prop. Are you sure it wasn't just
the impulse coupler you were hearing when you hand turned the prop?
John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)