Wait...are you telling me that.....yeah, well, I guess you are. Ah, the old bolt-through-the-tranny trick. Now that I've exposed my ignorance to the entire international community I'll just hide here under this rock for a bit. Thanks to all, Drew ----Chris Dixon wrote:------ Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 6:40 PM To: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com Subject: Re: rasumfrasum Starter bolt! Drew, I just did this yesterday. Don't bother with the allen bolt. Follow the bolt from the starter thru your tranny to your motor -- it's about 6 inches long and is held on with a regular metric nut. You can get to the engine side of the bolt easily with a regular old socket wrench -- tho you'll probably have to take off your AFM and throttle body (easy). I didn't even have to hold the allen bolt wth a wrench to get the nut off. I was surprised when I did this job that the big maintenance book suggested undoing the cv. I found this unecessary. Chris Dixon ---------and Sam Walters wrote-------- For a number of jobs like this, I have had to use extensions between my ratchet and the socket so that the ratchet is positioned in a way that allows me to get torque and for it to rotate. I think this is a two extension job IIRC. I have never removed the AFM or throttle body to do this job, but it might make it easier. While I have done this a few times by myself, it would be easier with a helper to hold the open end socket in place while you did the Allen from below. Sam -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Phillips, Andrew Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 4:54 PM To: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com Subject: rasumfrasum Starter bolt! I'm stuck here, and so is the remaining bolt on the starter. I'm trying to loosen the upper bolt -- the one that can only be reached from the engine compartment -- that holds the starter to my '91 Westy. There isn't room for much of any sort of work. I can get an 8 mm allen socket into the bolt, but there's no room to put a ratchet on. I can get an open end wrench on the shaft, but the handle on an 8 mm is kinda teeny to apply much torque, and the jaws of an adjustable wrench of suitable length are far too large to seat well. I'm sure there is no room for a percussion wrench. Liberal amounts of Liquid Wrench and a little tapping with a hammer have had no effect so far. Have any of you had this problem and been able to solve it? Your $0.02 greatly appreciated, Drew Phillips |
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