possible armature bushing squeal upon deceleration?

Velma 82 1.9L AAZ td westy
On Jan 8, 2014 1:22 PM, "Don Hanson" <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:

>    I have an ABA VW gas inline motor in my 84 van,  turning a 5sp
> tranny...with a diesel bellhousing and starter.   Been running this
> motor and starter now for a few years as my daily driver, work van and
> camper.   Every since I have owned it, when the engine catches and the
> starter motor is cut off, there is about a half second of this strange
> honking noise...I  don't really know the right way to describe it, but
> it seems similar maybe to when you take a ping pong ball and squish it
> down with the paddle onto the table...really kind of a brief
> 'squelching' noise, sort of.  Not loud, not alarming, just puzzling.
> Anybody  want to try to guess what might be causing this sound?
>
>    I figured, when I  first installed the motor and tranny and I heard
> that noise, whatever was making the noise would soon cause me some
> real problems, and then I could fix whatever it is....but it's now
> coming on 3yrs of driving it like this, without even any indication
> that anything is not right, other than that weird noise...The starter
> works perfectly every time, but it makes that noise perhaps on 90% of
> starts, always has...without any perceptible change in the sound or
> the operation of the starter.   I have had the motor out and also the
> tranny, to do a pilot bearing and a clutch... put it all back in and
> there's that 'honk' again from the starter area.....
>
>    Strange....
>   Guesses? or better still, someone who actually might know what this is?
>