UAZ CARGO, Operation Manual, Page: 179 / 208

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At the factory the motor vehicle is installed with the accumula-
tor battery, the density of which is 1.28±0.01 g/cm
3
.
Do not allow continuous battery discharge by a large current
(when starting a cold engine in winter time).
Thoroughly prepare the engine for starting and turn on the starter
motor only for a short period of time — no more than 5 sec.
Operate the accumulator battery in correspondence with the
Battery Operating Manual, enclosed in the vehicle.
Starter Motor
Periodically do the following:
– check the bolts that mount the starter motor to the engine for
tightening and clean them;
– check starter motor terminal ends for cleanliness and mount-
ing security
Turn off the accumulator battery while removing the starter
motor for maintenance.
Once the starter motor has been removed:
– check the relay switch outputs and the working surface of
electric terminals;
– check the starter motor drive — a gear, a lever and a spring;
– clean the rubbing details from dirt and lubricate them with
Litol-24 grease as required.
Starter motor drive should move freely with no jamming at the
shaft splines, and it should return to the source position by the return
spring. The anchor should not revolve when the drive gear goes in
the working rotation direction. In case of reverse rotation the gear
should revolve with the shaft. Check the ease of rotor rotation in
bearings with the brushes lifted by turning the shaft by hands.
Warnings:
1. The sleeve of starter motor travel can be broken if the starter
motor is on after the engine begins working.
2. Do not wash the starter motor caps and the drive with gaso-
line or kerosene to prevent the grease from being removed from
the bronze graphite cellular plain bearings.