Dear Ph.D. in Hillbilly Engineering. Don't be so cheap! Buy a new starter or have the old one rebuilt. Stan Wilder 83 Air Cooled Westfalia On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 19:36:19 EDT Bill Marshall <Willolyn99@AOL.COM> writes: > With all the discussion of gently beating the starter with hammers, > etc., I > noticed a lot of folks spoke of crawling under the van, opening the > deck lid, > and other inconveniences to hit the starter. The trick is to go at > it from > the side. If you have a 2-foot pole (or a 62 cm pole), you just > slide it > into the wheel well, at about the 10 o'clock position to the rear > right tire. > If it is your first time, do it in daylight or use a flashlight. A > couple > of whacks and you are good to go. It like shooting pool, and you > hardly have > to bend over -- no crawling or unloading involved! > > I did this for a few weeks, intermittently, until I > disassembled, > cleaned, and lubed the solenoid. I may not be an expert on fixing > these > things, but I got all the good roadside tricks down pat. :) > > Bill Marshall > 85 GL Tiico > Ph.D. in Hillbilly Engineering > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. |
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