A little help, missing Elec start gear part?

[XLsior]

Thanks Megadan,

I did some sleuthing,

I think the mystery of why the engine was so cheap. and the missing starter reduction gear just made sense.

Someone installed it incorrectly...bad things happened so they removed it and left the shaft.

The locating pin was not 'located' and the shaft was spinning. Also a indentation mark at 11o'clock seems to indicate where it was installed and torqued down.

So they went to kick start only. I counted the teeth appears to be an 17t starter idler gear assembly which i can find on Aliexpress. might just roll dice and try to install a new 1.

(noticed there are also 16t and 18t versions so made sure to double check the tooth count)

o well wouldn't be life without a few hurdles.