I was hoping there would be an alternative to having it eat up another gear, seeing as opposed twins like to chew up the plastic starter gears I thought maybe there'd be an aftermarket metal replacement.
Can somebody recommend a metal starter gear for a 19.5? Maybe all starter gears are the same, but I don't know anything about this stuff... Mine ate the old plastic one and I gather it'll probably do it again if I replace it with an OEM one.